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The New York Central ordered one prototype, # 5200 from Alco, and subjected her to intensive testing.

Passing with flying colors, a fleet of 205 J-1 class Hudsons were built, including thirty for the Michigan Central Railroad and thirty for the Cleveland, Cincinnati, Chicago and St. Louis Railway (“ Big Four ”).

In addition, NYC subsidiary Boston and Albany Railroad ordered twenty J-2 class, ten of them from Lima Locomotive Works ( all other NYC Hudsons were built by Alco ’ s Schenectady works ).

A later development were the fifty J-3a class “ Super Hudson ” in 1937 – 38, with every modern appliance and innovation the railroad could put on them.