jonnyspeed,
Agreed!
Now that would be the way for Lionel to reintroduce an S scale Hudson to the line.
The Vision Line Hudson with all its great operational features can show the way for its new little brother. Might take a while for them to do it given how much it would cost and depending on the reaction of the market to current Lionel S scale steamers, but it would be a watershed steam engine for ALL S scalers.
Better for the postwar Hudson tooling, if still existing, to have an honorable retirement. It is sort of a 700 E in S, without the same level of accuracy. For example, the engine is a tad too wide for S scale, although there was a good reason for that.
Ed Boyle