For all you New York Central Hudson fans...Lionel 50th Anniversary Set

Great layout !

Very cool Donald. Fine train on a fine layout. Enjoyed your video.

Pete

Outstanding layout and I enjoyed your video.

That's 5433 which is a J3a. 5344 was the famous J1e. Nice video, beautiful layout!

@NYC Fan posted:

That's 5433 which is a J3a. 5344 was the famous J1e. Nice video, beautiful layout!

Oops….at least I was consistent. Thanks for pointing this out.

Donald

Beautiful set and a great layout for the Hudson to stretch her legs! I had a chance to buy this set about 2 years ago, and after seeing your video, I'm glad I did. When my layout is finished, this will be one of the first sets to be run.

Very nice Donald, especially liked your weathering of the track. Hsd always wanted that set. A friend has one that I can enjoy. Quite realistic!

@c.sam posted:

Very nice Donald, especially liked your weathering of the track. Hsd always wanted that set. A friend has one that I can enjoy. Quite realistic!

c.sam, there's a set of K-Line cars very similar to these on ebay right now, as well as extra cars. The only major difference is they are lettered for NYC. These cars seem to come up for sale more frequently than the Lionel cars.

Thanks everybody for all the kind words. And I would like to especially thank “Skip” for his pointing out my dyslexia. Where were you Skip during the editing process? 🙂🙂

Anyway, thanks again. I enjoyed making the video.

Donald

Donald….I echo others comments on your layout and consist, very well done. This was the first time I’ve seen your layout. I just subscribed to your channel so I can see more. Thanks for posting!

@Rich Wiemann posted:

Donald….I echo others comments on your layout and consist, very well done. This was the first time I’ve seen your layout. I just subscribed to your channel so I can see more. Thanks for posting!

Thank you, Rich. I appreciate the kind comments. If you subscribe to the magazine, my layout was featured in RUNS 313, 316 and 319. I have written articles in all the other subsequent issues.

Donald

@3rail posted:

Thanks everybody for all the kind words. And I would like to especially thank “Skip” for his pointing out my dyslexia. Where were you Skip during the editing process? 🙂🙂

Anyway, thanks again. I enjoyed making the video.

Donald

Donald,

What's a little dyslexia among friends....that is unless you holding a Cab2!!!

Once again, I enjoyed the video and you layout looks great,

@NYC Fan posted:

Donald,

What's a little dyslexia among friends....that is unless you holding a Cab2!!!

Once again, I enjoyed the video and you layout looks great,

Thanks again Skip!

Donald, fantastic train, great video, thank you very much. Happy Railroading Everyone

Nice to see it run. Great layout too! Thank you for posting.

@3rail posted:

For all you New York Central Hudson fans...Lionel 50th Anniversary Set

I thought the anniversary set was a 2023 freight set?

@ADCX Rob posted:

I thought the anniversary set was a 2023 freight set?

Obviously, there are a lot of Anniversary's to celebrate! 

Donald

@ADCX Rob posted:

I thought the anniversary set was a 2023 freight set?

Maybe 50th Anniversary of the NYC Hudson and "Irvington" Pullman passenger car set. As mentioned, they never miss out on a marketing event! 🙂

Donald,

Thank you for sharing that nicely done video of the 50th Anniv Hudson!     Very enjoyable and professionally done.

@ADCX Rob posted:

I thought the anniversary set was a 2023 freight set?

The set (# 6-31705) in the video is named the "50th Anniversary Commemorative Set," released in 2002.  It was a scale re-issue of the passenger set Lionel sold in 1950 (Lionel's 50th anniversary) that was made up of the 773 Hudson and 3 heavyweights named "Irvington" "Madison" and "Manhattan." Fortunately, the 2002 re-issue also included the "Sager Place" observation car that appeared in the Postwar catalogs but was never produced.

It's odd how names are assigned to sets. I had always heard the UP 1464W passenger set referred to as the "Anniversary Set."