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IHC Hudson?
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IHC locos are on the lower end of the quality and detail spectrum, but are generally decent runners. If you are into super detail, you'll have to add the details to them yourself, since the details are lacking as it comes out of the box. Also, IHC does not follow a particular prototype, so this is not a model of an actual locomotive. In fact, IHC sells that particular locomotive in many roadnames that never even had Hudsons! If you can overlook these particular things, then you probably won't be disappointed with your purchase. If you are looking for a model of a Santa Fe or NYC Hudson and want to detail it to be fairly accurate, it is not really a very good model to start with, since it does not accurately represent any prototype Hudson. <br /> <br />As for the passenger cars, they are also on the lower end of the quality spectrum. The details are okay, but nowhere near outstanding. As with the IHC locomotives, some of what they offer are models for which there is not an actual prototype. They offer heavyweight, smoothside and corrugated side passenger cars in many different roadnames, even though not all the roads ran these particular cars. They don't have interiors or lights, so if you want either of these, you'll have to add it. They come with plastic wheels and horn-hook couplers, so you'll most likely want to change these things unless you don't mind those things. If you do change the wheels, you need to get IHC specific wheels which are a scale 31" wheel. Most passenger car wheels are 36", so you have to be careful which ones you use. If you are looking for Heavyweight passenger cars, I think the Bachmann Spectrum models offer a lot more for the money, since they come with metal wheels, lights and interiors. They also come with EZ mate couplers, but these aren't much better than the horn hooks on the IHCs, so you'll probably want to change them eventually. The price is a bit higher than the IHCs, but once you outfit the IHCs with interiors, lights, metal wheels and better couplers, they come out nearly even and have better detail. <br /> <br />As with most things, you get what you pay for. I think that IHC products (with exception of their diesel locomotives) represent a decent value as long as you don't set your expectations too high. As was stated above, however, some of the Bachmann Spectrum models can be found within the same price range and offer higher quality and better detail, so with that in mind, I think you could do better with Bachmann Spectrum than with IHC. Just my [2c].
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