Well finished my first try at a lashup of 2 legacy steam engines. I took a flyer and decided to do a lashup of Lionels new Legacy J3a Hudson 5415 & 5416. one engine was a MR Muffin's special run and the other was a Pats Train special run. Both weathered by Harry Heike. I struggled to try to figure out how to modify the engine front coupler to a workable dummy knuckle coupler. fortunately I got the answer from some OGR members (separate thread) which involved finding a Vision line Hudson dummy coupler. This particular coupler had a swivel in the center of it's shank. the tricky part was finding one with Lionel being closed. Went looking in my storage Lionel boxes and found one in my Vision Line Hudson carton. whew!!! Hooked the engines up and build them into a TR setup. and away they went happily pulling a new MTH NYC passenger car consist. And boy are they beautiful. Here is a video of them running.
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