Hudson Feever!!!!!!

Hi brwebster:

Thanks for sharing your collection:

I stick to CB&Q for most of my steamer fleet..

3rd Rail:

CB&Q  4-8-4  #5632

CB&Q 2-10-4 #6315

CB&Q 4-6-4  #3007

CB&Q 2-8-2  #4978 (on-order)

Lionel:

CB&Q 4-6-4 #4000 (semi-scale)

CB&Q 0-8-0 #???

MTH / RK

CB&Q 0-8-0 #???

SR     4-6-2 #???? (semi-scale)

Atlas-O:

CB&Q 0-6-0 #???

CB&Q Bill

Nice roster, Bill!  The only duplicate in mine is the Atlas 0-6-0, but it's undecorated.   I was fortunate to get the Burlington Bulletin #33 on the S4's...a really good read about everything Hudson on the CB&Q.

Bruce

I certainly would love to own the "real" one. For one thing that would mean I am rich. I would try to find a place to run it but probably wouldn't be successful. If it ever needed work I would ship it to Strasburg or maybe someone else but definitely not the UP guys.  And before I did anything to it I would get Hot Waters advice first! 

Hudsons are lovely engines. Even this diehard PRR foamer has one.

Also like the L-3, L-4 Mountains and the marvelous S-class Northerns. But there's only so much non-PRR, non-B&O, non-N&W, non-RDG locomotive room in my stable.

I also have “Hudson Fever”, about eleven months ago I walked into my Local Hobby Shop to ask Elmer to install new traction tires on my Lionel Challenger. I saw this Hudson on the shelf and it was a “Hudson Fever” purchase. Every time I go in there for somthing simple and end up adding something to the layout.

Gary • Cheers from The Detroit and Mackinac Railway

Here is my Vision Hudson.  This is the best NYC Hudson ever made.

Hmmm . . wonder how that happened?  Maybe it was like this:  A green 4-6-2 pulled up at the Galesburg roundhouse.  The Roundhouse Foreman came running out and demanded to know what was going on.  Engineer Frank Clodfelter replied, "I was lined the wrong way at an interlocker in Knoxville, and I whistled for the correct lineup.  Nothing changed, so I went to the phone and called the Towerman, and he told me to 'Proceed on signal indication', which I have done for more than a thousand miles.  I am finished with this, and I, sir, am going to get a trip pass and ride the passenger train back to Asheville, and will let you worry about what to do with this engine."

Ya think?

Hi number 90:

My paternal grandparents lived on a farm in southern Illinois (Fairfield, IL) at the south west intersection of the SR's Louisville-East St Louis mainline & US-45.  There was a small pasture between their house & the SR mainline.  I was always glued to the north windows  to watch the many SR freight trains thunder past.  Each summer of my grade school years, my brother Greg & I would stay for a week at that form.  During our stay in a July week of 1970 or 1971, the SR #4501 Mikado steam excursion train came through Fairfield from East St Louis.  My grandparents bought three tickets to the next town east (Albion, IL).  Grandma, Greg, & I rode the train to Albion while Grandpa drove in the car to pick us up for return to the farm.  I bought the MTH RK 4-6-2 set based on my childhood experience with the SR #4501 excursion train.  

About 12 years ago or so, the BRHS (Burlington Route Historical Society) issued a Burlington Bulletin on "The Q in the Coal Fields" of southern IL.  This covered the CB&Q's Beardstown division in detail.  In Centrailia, IL, the CB&Q and SR had a few miles of joint trackage & shared a freight house.  The article stated that the CB&Q had a contract with SR to provide wrecker service for the SR between East St Louis & Princeton, IN.  To my amazement & delight, there was a b/w photo of an SR 4-6-2 passenger train sitting in front of the joint SR/CB&Q freight house (with both RR's heralds on the FH) !  

As you can see, the co-existance of CB&Q and SR trains on the same O-gauge model RR are well supported by the prototype facts.  

I grew up 30 miles east of Quincy IL on the Keokuk branch of the Wabash RR, which was fairly inactive by the 1960s & 1970s.  However, the Q was alive & well in towns all around west central IL (Quincy, Rushville, Beardstown, Jacksonville, Lewistown, Canton, etc).  My maternal grandparents lived on a farm near Kewanee, Neponset, & Buda, IL  (all on the Q).  My mother took Greg & I on a Zephyr ride from Macomb to Kewanee when I was 4 or 5 to visit my maternal grandparents.  Other times we would pick up Aunt Elaine from a Zephyr at Camp Point when she would visit.    

I plan to base my eventual layout on the small towns that I grew up in & around with mainly CB&Q and some SR models.  

Thanks,

CB&Q Bill

I just have to have another!

Peter

Hello Marty, You have had this Hudson Fever for a long time......

     I would guess, it goes back to your childhood. Check out this OGR Forum Link from November 4th., 2011.  

https://ogrforum.com/t...d-photo-fun-11-4-11-

   Click screenshot to enlarge

Hoop.la & the OGR Forum - Must have one large storage system.

• Gary - Cheers from The Detroit and Mackinac Railway

     I did have a J.C.Penny / Lionel Hudson

I think my fever goes back to 1955 - I also like the Yellow Belly Hudson.

I like Hudsons from all railroads.  

I just got my first train and it's a 1940 Hudson Work Train!

What can you tell me about this set? Online info on this train seems a bit thin.

There is one on eBay for $7500?! That is insane! Is it accurate? My set is as nice or nicer and I have the boxes and paperwork too.

More pictures after my camera charges.

How about a model of the heaviest, most modern 4-6-4s ever built?

I understand 3rd Rail considered doing one but didn't find enough interest.

Actually not enough orders/reservations. The interest was there, but not enough folks with the money to reserve/order one. The same thing happened when Sunset/3rd Rail announced the C&O K3 class Mikados and NYC H9/10 class Mikados, i.e. lots of interest, but insufficient orders/reservations.

Good one   

There can be no doubt about the dept of my fall into the fever now that number 9 is on the way.  A Weaver Brass Dreyfuss with Boxpoc drivers is winging its way to me now and will be here by Halloween!  I'll have to make room in my display case which was already bursting at the seams.

Rolland

Your FIRST train Fred???

What a prize! 

Please elaborate....

What a way to start! I for one would like to hear how this came to be the first train you acquired.

Mike

Still waiting for the most graceful 4-6-4 to ever polish the rails to be made. 

L A C K A W A N N A -  ALCO #1151, 1152, 1153, 1154, 1155

The K-line version was not graceful...

One of my favorites is my MTH 20-3059-1, J1e with PT Tender.

Mike

 A friend of mine Lt.Col. Cyrus B. Sweet III passed away recently. He got the train for Christmas when he was eleven. I was helping his wife "The Commander" look for something in the attic and she gave me the trains!

The Hudson runs very, very smoothly I'm thrilled! There is lots of prewar track, switch gear, a 150w transformer and more, all operational, all in boxes.

For me the prize is the 1935 American Flyer Burlington Zephyr set I got too! I love streamliners like you all love the Hudsons.  I can understand why, the Hudsons are magnificent!

I work out of a ancient factory in Portsmouth, NH that was converted into fabrication/ woodworking shops and art studios. On the first weekend of each December we hold a two day open house. My shop mates and I are going to set up the trains for the event. Many of us never had trains and we are all really excited. I am cleaning track and saving plywood scrap to make roadbed out of. The layout will run between three work benches. I have some clear Lexan I am going to make 4"x8"x36" tubes to bridge the distance between the benches; Clean, quick and dramatic! There won't be time for scenery but I am going to make an old school mountain tunnel out of chicken wire covered with bills (utility, insurance, medical, etc. etc.) to create "The Mountain of Bills". If I can I will buy some junk rail cars and chassis to give other artists for them decorate or build on. Non traditional to say the least

This is going to be a lot of fun! 

Incredible photo!! I love it!! I just got the newest version of this locomotive. I always wanted one with a PT tender. 

Thank you!  Photo was taken on the Raritan Valley Hi-Railers modular layout at the Elks Club Wounded Warriors fundraiser in East Brunswick, NJ last weekend.  Maybe they will have a similar event next fall.

rvhirailer: East Brunswick, NJ? I could walk to EB from my house (about 2.5 miles)! I wish I would have known about this event I would have stopped by. 

Perhaps they will better advertise it next fall, we had a great time setting up the layout and running the trains there.  They are some of the nicest people we have worked with.

Mike

woo woo!!!!!!!