DaveSlie posted:Mikado 4501 posted:I'm very curious about the auxiliary water tenders. Are those derived from the J3a Hudson's? Are they prototypical? I would've thought that they would've used the tooling from the old L3a Mohawk tenders.
The CNJ Baron SD40 set is quite nice, though. Hopefully this run of the SD40's retains the nice look of the kinematic pilots that the 2015 run did.
They are not correct. The tenders shown in the catalog are from the NYC Hudsons that were just released and are too short. The correct tender should come from a NYC Mohawk. A correct tender is in the works from another source.
Thanks Dave. I thought as much. Hopefully, the tenders will bare resemblance to something more like reality. Lionel should still have the tooling for the L3a Mohawks they did in the 90’s, unless they got destroyed and might go with new tooling.
If the latter’s the case, hopefully a LEGACY NYC L3a Mohawk with whistle steam would be inevitable.
Hopefully, as well, the new trailing truck part will later be available on the parts website for those who bought the 2016 Chessie T-1 since it’s the only one of the T-1 schemes that was not brought back this year despite now having a matching set of passenger cars AND a matching water tender in this catalog...I dunno.
