NYC Question

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I just recently purchased a BLI J1-E, 4-8-4 Hudson. (What a beautiful steam locomotive! [^]). I don’t know much about NYC and looking to get the right passenger cars for it. Which passenger cars did they run with? [%-)]

  1. Heavyweight- solid dark green color
  2. Heavyweight- two tone grey scheme
  3. Streamline- two tone grey
  4. Streamline- corrigated sides, silver scheme
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Ok, first, I’ll be the pain-in-the-butt nitpicker…Hudsons are 4-6-4’s, but we’ll call it a typo and move on…

I believe that the Hudsons pulled all of the above, with the possible exception of 2-tone grey streamlined cars. And corrugated side stainless steel cars were probably only pulled by the streamlined Hudsons on the Empire State Express.

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bwilcox,
You’re correct! I’m so starstruck with this steamer that I included an additional 2 sets of wheels! [banghead] I’m looking into purchasing the Walthers heavyweight passenger cars or the Branchline heavyweights. Thanks for the info![:D]