@mlaughlinnyc posted:Here's another rendition of the Dreyfuss Hudson, 1946 edition. It's probably the first model of this engine to ever appear in hobby shops. It was available from Lionel only in sets and only in 1946. There was a 1947 edition, but it was black.
I've included a photo of the train set. Not exactly the Century, but if you can stretch your imagination from blue to two-tone gray ---. The Commodore might have been a more appropriate engine actually for this train, given the open platform obs. The Commodore must have pulled the best passenger trains, and it was gone before the NYC had a streamlined observation car./
That was the first Dreyfuss I had. I bought it sometime around 1979 at a long gone train store "World of Trains" in Woodhaven, Queens, NY.
