K line trains that were never produced?

[lionel2986]

Hi everyone,

 

Does anyone know what k line trains or accessories were never produced? Perhaps you placed an order in 2005 or 2006 for an item and never received it? I have been looking in some of the last k line catalogs and see many cool cars and accessories and then recall reading that some items were never produced. is there away to verify which ones those are?

[phrankenstign]

I think at this point, the only way to figure out what WASN'T produced is to Google the particular item you're interested in over a long period of time.  If you repeatedly get zero hits, then the chances are good it was never produced.  Rare and scarce items tend to turn up for sale more often than you'd think---particularly on ebay.  On-line train shops also tend to come across hard-to-find items.  When searching for a particular item over time, I would assume the item probably wasn't produced if it doesn't come up for sale somewhere.  Since K-Line's demise didn't come about that long ago, anything that was produced shouldn't be that difficult to find.  Many stores still have a lot of K-Line items for sale, so you can strike those off the list of unproduced items.  Check out the listings in CTT.  As you strike off the items offered for sale, that should leave you with a small number of items.  Those are the ones you can decide to search for using Google over a period of time.  It shouldn't take too long to come to some fairly good assumptions about what wasn't produced.

It's possible Lionel may still produce the items in the future.  After all, management must have thought they would sell, since they'd decided to put them in the catalogs to begin with.