Hi Everyone, Just wanted to comment on my Hudson. In reference to the tender lettering I replaced it with the Champ decal lettering. How did I remove the old lettering? I took a dull razor blade and carefully scraped it off. The new lettering covered over that area well enough so as was not so noticeable. Overspraying with dulcote made it undetectable.
The engine number I have #5451 I thought the font looked close enough so did not replace it.
In regards to the lubricator linkage the model followed the drawing so that got missed in checking the drawing, however, my model has it installed correctly. I may have corrected that myself and just forgot about it. It would be no problem to correct that. Just remove it and reinstall it correctly.
I did replace the smokestack with PSC's as I thought it to be too small. On the front top corners of the tender compartments there should be plumbing elbows. I installed PSC's parts for that. On the top of the tender expansion tank to the right of center there should be a hole about 1/8 in or so in diameter with a screen in it. This is where the booster exhaust came out. In conjunction with that there should be plumbing to connect the booster exhaust from the booster to the front of the tender. All these parts are availbale from PSC.
The other thing I did was to replace the windshields as the ones on the models were far too narrow. As I had a part in how this model was produced I apologize for the mistakes all but the lettering. I never had any of it to check and that would not have been missed. If I may say so it is in spite of the mistakes they are not serious and the model was a copy of the PSC produced in 1983, however, there were more serious mistakes with that one which we avoided copying. A nice mode after all!
Sam Shumaker
