Lionel CV Hudson collaboration with Alex M. Tales from Harmon Shops

Looks good Pat!!  Alex is certainly up to the task at hand!  You are right, I have received the fruits of their labors and/or advice from Alex, John, Pete, and George during the 9 years I have been on this Forum!

As an aside, I just paid for a K-Line Hudson which is on its way to the Butler, Pennsylvania shop for an evaluation before contacting you and taking a number!  😉

@Mark Boyce posted:

Looks good Pat!!  Alex is certainly up to the task at hand!  You are right, I have received the fruits of their labors and/or advice from Alex, John, Pete, and George during the 9 years I have been on this Forum!

As an aside, I just paid for a K-Line Hudson which is on its way to the Butler, Pennsylvania shop for an evaluation before contacting you and taking a number!  😉

Copy that Mark,…we’re still stocked pretty good to do Kline Hudsons,…..so you’re ok,….I’ve got two on the bench now,…..Chris’s Hudson we’ve turned into a pulling monster beings the task he needs it to do……I’ll be able to start speeding up these jobs once the season winds down at the day job,…..it’s been murder, I’m can though, finally see my retirement coming ahead !…..16 months ……and I’ll be haunting the forum every day,……god willing and the river don’t rise!…😉

Pat

Always nice to see real work being done.

Pat, what is the reason for the large brass piece extending back towards the motor? (in the first 2 photos)

Mark in Oregon

@harmonyards posted:

Copy that Mark,…we’re still stocked pretty good to do Kline Hudsons,…..so you’re ok,….I’ve got two on the bench now,…..Chris’s Hudson we’ve turned into a pulling monster beings the task he needs it to do……I’ll be able to start speeding up these jobs once the season winds down at the day job,…..it’s been murder, I’m can though, finally see my retirement coming ahead !…..16 months ……and I’ll be haunting the forum every day,……god willing and the river don’t rise!…😉

Pat

Congratulations on the countdown to retirement!   I’ve been retired a year and a half and got a lot done on my layout last winter.  I sandwiched that between two surgery recoveries!  😄😄

@harmonyards posted:

BTW, Alex is on the top shelf of his game, he answers his emails quickly,  and has the game plan laid out …..for repair work, that speaks volumes!….we’re lucky to have Alex, John, Pete, & George on our side!…those cats are all wizards!!….

Don't forget about that Pat fellow.....he does O.K.....

@Strummer posted:

Always nice to see real work being done.

Pat, what is the reason for the large brass piece extending back towards the motor? (in the first 2 photos)

Mark in Oregon

Mark, that bracket is for a place to mount a tach sensor and route all the wiring up and over the motor, thus, it’ll keep the wiring from getting tangled up in the driveline,…it’s a connivence part,….😉

Pat

@RickO posted:

Don't forget about that Pat fellow.....he does O.K.....

Thanks Rick!…I can only hope to be as good as those cats some day,…..pretty sure I wear my buddy Pete out bouncing ideas off his noggin’ …..someday I’ll be able to devote all the live long day to building locomotives, but right now, that pesky 4  lettered word gets in my way,….w-o-r-k…

Pat

Yeah, there is a KLine Hudson sitting here that I have to get packed and email someone named Pat to work on that and my 763 Hudson with the Vandy tender. This weekend is wind down weekend for me. One trip to the train store and I get to relax. So I should be able to get things squared up to start emailing Pat at some point to figure out all the in's and out's. Shouldn't be any electronic swapping other than make 4 chuffs, smoke unit upgrade, that sort of stuff, unless Pat suggests other things. Guess we'll get to that soon.

Hello everyone,

First i will say it was an absolute pleasure working with Pat, he kept me informed all the way through  with the work he was doing. His work is top notch. I agree with everyone, we are lucky to have guys like Pat, Gunrunner John , Pete,  George, and others  around. Never too old to learn something from these great guys !

The CV Hudson was fun to upgrade, Customer's request was... pull the Pullmor, install the powerful Pittman, Electric RR cruise commander, ERR Medium steam sounds, GRJ Super chuffer and chuff generator, custom fan driven smoke unit , and the 50mm Lionel fatboy speaker.

Once Pat did his magic with the motor exchange, i took over and finished her up, it now is a top notch engine with all the goodies !

I will post a video shortly of it in action

Thank you all for your kind words !

Thanks, Alex

Now that is something to look at. Great work you two. Hurrah hurrah!

Holy Commodore Vanderbilts Batman!….great job Alex!!….man that thing pounds the ground!…….hot on the tails of that CV, we’ve got Dave’s Mohawk to do a collaboration on!…it’s a whole new ball game quiz kids, stay tuned!…

Pat

Holy Commodore Vanderbilt's Pat? What's funny to me, is I should have said that being that I have quoted Robin most of my life for some reason. Maybe it was all those Batman reruns I saw as a kid? Or maybe just my humor.

Yeah, Mohawk action coming, woohoo! That guy Dave really needs to get that back bedroom cleared to build that layout he was talking about. Someone needs to kick his behind, either that or stop time for him. Plan on tackling the treadmill on Sunday, that is dismantling it.

That really is great, Pat and Alex!!

Alex and Pat collaborations, throwing in some GRJ equipment, boy we're in for some real treats now.

I still have to send mine in!!

I always wanted one of these engine but the Pullmor and 1 cpr always had me walking away.  Great job guys!

great work all.

Pat, I can't help but let my eyes wander across the bench to see what else is on deck for work. Your a busy guy.

@coach joe posted:

Alex and Pat collaborations, throwing in some GRJ equipment, boy we're in for some real treats now.

I can’t agree more, Joe!!

@Engineer-Joe posted:

great work all.

Pat, I can't help but let my eyes wander across the bench to see what else is on deck for work. Your a busy guy.

Yeah he is. I got a few I have to send him, plus I have to get with Alex on another few that I want him to do that don't need motor swaps like Pat is doing for my Mohawk which we'll see soon.