MTH NEW YORK CENTRAL HUDSON

That's an early MTH Protosounds engine. I believe it's from 1996. The battery should be changed before trying to run this engine.

MERRY CHRISTMAS

These are very nice models 'feet'. The sounds are dated and quite harsh but the operation is solid. Good steady thick fan-driven smoke. It is a good scale model as well and compared favorable with Lionel's and later MTH Hudsons. The rims are silver as are the handrails which have a special charm of their own but can be easily blackened. 

As Joe mentioned above - this one is from almost 20 years ago!

A good candidate for a PS2 or ERR command upgrade. Here is the MTH on the left with the highly venerated K-Line Hudson on the right.

Click on the thumbnails at bottom to enlarge to see the detail.

I have this engine-beautiful detail compared to what came out even the scale lionel 1990 version of the Hudson-great sounds-proto one-warning -install a bcr battery though-I see them on ovay for 350.00-400.00 dollars-beats spending a grand today for a newer version with newer sounds.

Thanks to all those who replied. I haven't bought it yet as i want to make sure i can get parts if needed.

I have seen about 3 of these recently sell for <300 bucks. If you are a DCS guy upgrade it to PS2 and a better speaker. These are very well built engines with first rate motors and gearboxes. You won't be disappointed.

Pete

That is a great Hudson to upgrade to whatever system.  I recently did a DCS upgrade for my good friend Locolawyer.  We put the new MTH wicking in the smoke unit, upgraded speaker and Erol wanted LED lighting on the headlight and backup light.  He got what he wanted.  This engine has a monster Pittman motor and great gearbox.  It runs great with DCS.

We might consider selling ours (photo above)

Won the Hudson on the bay, 380.00. Will probably convert it to ps-2. C.SAM i would keep that engine if i were you, looks really good.  If i hadn't won this one i would have taken you up on your offer. Thanks again to all that replied.

The MTH Premier NYC J1e is a very handsome model that captures the prototype

quite well; probably as well as the K-line in some ways - and I don't think that

it has a "U-shaped" boiler that some find objectionable on the K-line piece (I am

not one of them).

However....the NYC Hudson is my favorite loco, so I'm a bit picky that the "cues" be

correct, and MTH has incorrectly modeled the smokebox front door - the piece within the

clamps ("dogs") that hold it closed, behind the headlight. The contour is wrong - it

should be a smooth dome shape, but it is not. It changes the "face" of the loco.

Every time I see it I get that mental sour-note thing. But I'll probably buy one eventually,

and replace the smokebox front/door with a Lionel or K-line piece.

Of course, I love the Lionel J3a, and it has an incorrect earlier Sunbeam headlight that

the J3a never had. The J3a's always had the later, tapered-body Pyle type. But a file

and black paint took care of that on my J3a's.... 

Feet, good job.  It is a very nice locomotive.