I bought one of these a couple of years ago at York at the MTH parts booth. It comes from Mike Wolf’s personal collection. It was used in the now famous lawsuit MTH vs LIONEL et al as plaintiff’s exhibit #229E (still has the exhibit tags on the engine and tender). I was going to sell it. Even put it up on eBay but other than some nasty comments there wasn’t any interest. So I decided to keep it. Hey, it’s a scale NYC Hudson so why not and you can’t own too many Hudsons, right. So I put it back in its box and put it away.
So today I take it out to put it on a shelf with my other NYC Hudson’s but first let’s see how she runs. Runs great, smoke from the piston smoke unit is anemic (my post war 1950 773 smokes better), sounds great with the two speakers even with early chuffs. But then I notice that one of the rear red tender marker lights is out. It’s a LED so I figure there might be a loose wire. Unfortunately, when I check under the shell all wires from both marker lights are secure in the plug. Now what to do?
I check the Lionel website and the bulbs are not a separate sale item and the shell is unavailable but even if it was available it’s expensive.
Does anyone have any ideas? Anyone out there repair these?
Thanks in advance.
Mike
