"Steve you do a run of a B&A Hudsons, with the short tender square Sandome and paint them green with grey smoke box. 
Man I’ll dont know what I’ll do"
I haven't read this entire thread, so maybe this gets mentioned above, but:
The B&A Hudsons were J2's (essentially J1's, like the 5344 and 200 or so others, but with smaller, 75" drivers), not J3's. AB&A "J3" (no such animal) would make the wee class light issue fade into nothingness. Why would you want the wrong engine, when all you have to do, pretty much, is get a non-Vision Lionel J1 (Pullmor, but OK) or an MTH J1 and letter it for B&A? The small sandbox is even accurate at the beginning, and a modeler could take care of the big box, anyway.
Probably covered above, but I couldn't help it. Bad idea.
