Since so few have ever seen OO running, here is my 1938 set running under our little tree this year. Everything from the locomotive and tender to the track itself is correct for the first year of production in 1938. Both the way the track fastened together in that year to the grey hopper and yellowish box car were unique to that set. The caboose was lettered Pennsylvania, which is correct to the style of the caboose. Later ones were marked NYC to match the locomotive a little better. The Hudson also used a pin on a chain like the O gauge 700e to connect the tender to the locomotive. Later versions used a spring loaded pin instead. Merry Christmas from our family to yours! AD.
"HONGZ" stands for HO scale, N scale, G scale, and Z scale.
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I was unable to set up my OO set this year due to room size constraints. Lat year we lived in a different house and I had a loop of O gauge and a loop of OO Gauge. This year I'm running American Flyer S Gauge only, and just a circle under the tree. We're planning on moving again, to an even bigger house in SC, so next year will be better.
AD: Splendid train set and display! Is your engine the very detailed one? Sure runs well! :-)
Maybe you could run it a little slower?
AD you have a beautiful set and it runs flawlessly. Thanks for my first viewing of an OO run. I’ve enjoyed your other threads associated with your OO pursuit. Have fun running them.
They tend to run a bit fast, it is a tall drivered passenger engine after all. There is also a voltage drop at the right back corner, a nice speed by the transformer will stall at that back corner sometime. I need to add a power feeder at that corner. AD
That set is about 80 years old and it still runs. That is a testament to the men who built it.
Those Hudsons are real gems - especially the full scale ones!
It is amazing they run so well for just over 80 years old. Both of my Hudsons are the full scale versions(001 and 003), I also have the reissue 700e from 1990. So yes I have a bit of a NYC J1e Hudson fetish. AD
Beautiful miniature machines! :-)