Dennis LaGrua posted:Originally Posted by kennyb:Hello,Thanks for the link.Yep....Those definitely are the shells I am looking for!!!! Thanks,Kenny Baughman
No problem. I guess that I've been in this hobby too long. The Hudson Products "Lionel" F3 set may be rare but who can say that those pirate sets are valuable. They are just repainted MPC engines and cars with the Lionel logos all over them. The last scale Hudson that I saw at a show was priced at $500 and no takers. It had nice detail but was made of a very soft pot metal or cast pewter. The story goes that the man who ran Hudson products took an original Lionel 5344 and made a silicon mold from it so that he could just pour in melted pewter (tin and lead) and form the cabs, the trucks and other parts. I may still have a Hudson products catalog somewhere and I'll try to find it. I was considering buying one of these engines but 1. the price was exorbitant and 2, the outfit seemed like a shady operation and as I suspected they were shut down after a few years. IIRC, they operated out of an old mill building in Attleboro , MA. One year at York I stopped by the table and saw the Hudson model. People were coming buy and complaining that their orders were not being shipped. One guy was so incensed that the company had his money for nine months and not delivered, the seller at the table just handed him on of the two display units just to keep him quiet so that he could keep the scam going.
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