Train Car Full of Hudsons

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edited November -1 in HUDSON
Has anyone heard the story about a train car (auto carrier) full of 50-51 Hudsons being "lost" then found in train car repair shop?



I was at a Boy Scout camporee (many Troops) this past weekend and some of us adults were sitting around the fire. The conversation got to cars and I mentioned my 50 Pacemaker.



Then someone told the story about a car full of Hudsons never making it to the dealerships. He stated that the train car some got here to Johnstown, PA and sat in the back yard of one of the local train car repair shops. They closed in the mid 90s and when the cars were being pulled out, someone opened this "lost" car.



Sounds too good to be true but I thought I would ask.

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  • Jon B
    Jon B Administrator
    Yup. It's in the same tradition as the campfire stories told when I was a Boy Scout!!



    Some things just never change...
  • [Deleted User]
    [Deleted User]
    And I am sure the train driver only had one hand on the other arm he had a Hudson tie-rod end and at night you can still here him whistling and looking for his lost train car of Hudsons.......LOL
  • Unknown
    Unknown
    For what it's worth, scooba divers say the story about a boat load of Hudsons sinking in Lake Michigan while in transport is true. But a train car load of Hudsons getting lost! I don't think the insurance company bloodhounds would have let that one get by them.
  • Unknown
    Unknown
    I heard this story, but it was 50 and 51 Buicks....
  • Geoff
    Geoff Senior Contributor
    Dave53-7C wrote:
    For what it's worth, scooba divers say the story about a boat load of Hudsons sinking in Lake Michigan while in transport is true. But a train car load of Hudsons getting lost! I don't think the insurance company bloodhounds would have let that one get by them.



    This one is definitely true - I have seen photographs of a '27 Hudson coupe which had been dredge up from the bottom of the lake. It died of hyper-oxidation once exposed to the air.

    Geoff.
  • faustmb
    faustmb Senior Contributor
    Wasn't there an article in the WTN a few years back about some 46-47 Hudsons that fell off the deck of a freighter in lake Michigan during a storm? I though that story was actually backed up by some diver photos or something.



    Matt
  • Unknown
    Unknown
    my brother lives in Johnstown and has a lot of friends that work for the railroad. no such find. the boatload that went down inthe Great Lakes was all Studebakers, the way I heard it BILL ALBRIGHT
  • junkcarfann
    junkcarfann Expert Adviser
    I heard that those Hudsons all had experimental Fish carburetors that got over 200 miles per gallon, but the evil oil companies and Halliburton conspired to stop that because they wanted to sell more oil, and Bush personally sank the boat.
  • Unknown
    Unknown
    Geoff C., N.Z. wrote:
    This one is definitely true - I have seen photographs of a '27 Hudson coupe which had been dredge up from the bottom of the lake. It died of hyper-oxidation once exposed to the air.

    Geoff.



    Wasn't it during an under water earth quake that some sunken WWII ships popped up recently in your part of the planet?
  • Geoff
    Geoff Senior Contributor
    Dave53-7C wrote:
    Wasn't it during an under water earth quake that some sunken WWII ships popped up recently in your part of the planet?



    Solomon Islands I believe. quite a way from here! Like 3,000 miles!
  • Unknown
    Unknown
    Geoff C., N.Z. wrote:
    Solomon Islands I believe. quite a way from here! Like 3,000 miles!



    Still, closer to you than me.
  • [Deleted User]
    [Deleted User]
    I heard there is a lake in Kentucky that has 4 0r 5 Crosley's in it. They say a bunch of teenagers in the late 50's would hot wire them joy ride for a while then they would drive them off into this lake. They were:rolleyes: n't worth trying to fish out, so they are still there. I guess they wouldn't float like a volkswagon.
  • ratlee2
    ratlee2 Expert Adviser
    A local lake here in southwest michigan that I scuba dive in has the remains of an old model T in it. Not much of it remaining anymore, but still interesting to come across. They must have driven it out on the lake before the ice melted since it is quite a ways offshore.



    Rich
  • hudsonguy
    hudsonguy Senior Contributor
    This thread reminds me of a local 45 year old mystery that was solved last summer.



    In '61, I believe, two local boys and their '50 Ford coupe simply disappeared one winter night. Everyone believed they fell thru the ice on one of the two large lakes in Madison, since they were last seen buying ice fishing bait after spending most of the night in a bar. Rescuers searched these lakes for months, and even brought in a psychic, but could find no trace of them. I was only seven then, and I do remember the story.



    Then last summer, a scuba diver located a car at the bottom of one of the other lakes around Madison, and there in thirty feet of water, underneath 5 feet of silt, was the '50 Ford coupe! They recovered the car, which surprisingly still cast a shadow! Oh, they did find some bone fragments in the car also!
  • [Deleted User]
    [Deleted User]
    Wow! 50 and 51 Pacemakers! Anyway, I work as a locomotive engineer for the Canadian Pacific/Soo Line RR here in the Chicago area. From time to time someone at work will talk about a certain freight car being lost and then discovered years later with some unusual item(s) contained inside. It's always heresay with nothing concrete to back up the story.



    At our Bensenville, IL yard we have a car repair shop. Cars come in to one side of the shop, are fixed and then exit the other side to be returned to service. Sure, there are some stub tracks with a car or two that may sit there for a while. But as someone else pointed out, if a car gets lost, people from conductors to clerks to trainmasters are combing all over the yard to find that wayward car.



    Hudsonly,



    Dan
  • [Deleted User]
    [Deleted User]
    I remember hearing the tale of WWII Jeeps being in Cosmolene, being stored in crates at the Tooele Army Depot in western Utah. That was the popular story when I was in high school.
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