I picked up some Fleishman H0 tin litho Great Northern streamline passenger cars a while back, but needed some motive power. Picked up a Marx H0 smoking Hudson that had been painted all silver. Perfect candidate for my project. I still need to clean up the coaches, but the locomotive is ready and waiting.
Steve
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Looks really good!
Looks awesome! Never knew it existed?
Really nice Steve - I too was unaware of it existence.
looks great Steve. I picked Dad up a Marx Hudson a few years go, runs great.
I have a couple of these because a) they're Marx and, b) they're NYC Hudsons. I don't
do HO, but one is on display on my "tiny scale NYC Hudsons" shelf. This shelf contains NYC
Hudsons in N, TT, HO and S scales. I also have WAY too many of these in scale O...
I would like one in Z, but those all seem to cost $600 - and the others were bargain-priced.
Anyway, Marx did an excellent job - much better than AF HO did - of capturing the look, feel and proportions of a Central Hudson. The details are minimal, but that's OK. I wish
that Marx had "enlarged" the same tooling to an O or Traditional-O size, with the same simplistic detailing and good proportions, and offered it to the O-gauge crowd.
The most amusing feature of this Marx Hudson are the EMD Blomberg diesel trucks on
the tender, instead of 3-axle Commonwealth tender trucks. They look right...at first.
Right size, but wait, no! So Marx.
I never knew that MARX made such a locomotive.
Bob
Looks great. I never knew Marx made these either.
Jim McC
Steve that is a nice paint job. I bought a Marx HO set with this loco in it a while back, I am amazed at the way it runs, and the fact that the smoke and light work well. Great job.
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