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GN Con Cor Hudson
« on: October 11, 2009, 11:13:21 AM »
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Dumb question time folks..............

Con Cor's Great Northern Hudson............is this thing a serious foobie...? I can't find any references to GN having any great numbers of 4-6-4's....lot of Pacific's but nary a Hudson.........

Any wisdom out there ?
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Re: GN Con Cor Hudson
« Reply #1 on: October 11, 2009, 01:45:44 PM »
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Pud,

I don't model GN but knowing ConCor I'd lean towards the foobie theory.  ;D

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Re: GN Con Cor Hudson
« Reply #4 on: October 11, 2009, 02:28:49 PM »
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yeah I thought so also.
but I found it with a 4-6-4 search word....

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Re: GN Con Cor Hudson
« Reply #5 on: October 11, 2009, 03:04:25 PM »
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I checked my copy of Kalmbachs Guide to North American Steam Locomotives and no 4-6-4's are listed.
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Re: GN Con Cor Hudson
« Reply #6 on: October 11, 2009, 04:11:59 PM »
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Couldn't find my copy of  loco history book 143  but a quick scan of the all-time roster in the Woods book doesn't list any.

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Re: GN Con Cor Hudson
« Reply #7 on: October 11, 2009, 06:01:13 PM »
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The boys at the GN SIG say it's a major fobbie....no GN Hudsons..........ok; bash and repaint....
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Re: GN Con Cor Hudson
« Reply #8 on: October 11, 2009, 09:27:28 PM »
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Yeah, its a big foobie.

I think the model is of an NYC Hudson, but if all you care about is paint, MILW used 4-6-4's in Idaho between the electrified zones I believe.

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Re: GN Con Cor Hudson
« Reply #9 on: October 13, 2009, 12:03:16 AM »
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  Yes Great Northern Rostered NO HUDSONS. the Con Cor GN S2 4-8-4 locomotive could be converted into one of their 4-8-2 locos by removing the pony truck and replacing with two wheel front truck. These locos looked otherwise  similar. Con Cor did alot of Foobies for the hudson, Union Pacific was another road that never had em yet they used this loco in their otherwise nice Overland Limited LTD. Edition train set. They offered both a bullet nose and shovel nose version,then they did the nice yellow and brown UP Fourty Niner streamlined loco scheme found only on a Pacific and a 4-8-2 loco on the bullet nose loco. Wrongo. UP locos were upside down bathtub shrouds,closer to the shovel nose loco. I could have lived with that making it into a pacific by changing the trailing truck. Con Cor did a nice beautiful gunmetal gray paint scheme for  the cars used on this train on their smoothside cars.                                         Nate Goodman (Nato).