K-Line favorites are the scale, diecast, undecorated black workhorse Mikados, with Lima Builders Plates, which are correct for the Southern Ry's AGS subsidiary. I am sure K-Line did not intend it, but the black units work perfectly for the Southern which has been over modelled with Green Mikado and diesel freight engines.
Painter Jeff Sohn numbered/lettered and artfully decorated them in accordance with Southern's freight engine paint/trim scheme. Secondly, I liked their diecast freight cars. [my grand daughters like their model N.C. DOT FPH 59s and Cars].
Alex,
Keep an eye on ebay.........they usually go between $250-$300 with TMCC. Make sure it is cab number 9628. At that price CC/TMCC is the only way to go even if you run in conventional mode (IMHO).
JohnB
I have a K4 Postwar Pacific, A5 Switcher, and a RS-3 Black Hammerhead all of which I really like but my favorite would have to be my PRR 2-8-2 Mikado. It have never given me a problem, pulls great, great sounds and smokes well.
This would probley be mine
alexweiihman wrote: I just got the orignal k-line version a week ago and it is the best purchase ive made.
Whats the difference between the one you bought and the new one?
ALSO...
PRR F3s ABBA runs great just got them. Unbelievable detail.
laz57
I'm intrigued by these remote controll dump cars. Might have to buy one!
Jim
Modeling the Baltimore waterfront in HO scale
Skullie wrote:I really like the B&O Capitol Limited. Its a bit out of my range, but maybe I'll just have to start saving. I recall someone on the forums saying there was an even nicer version of it available too. Is that true?
I just got the orignal k-line version a week ago and it is the best purchase ive made.
nblum wrote:Remote control dump cars are my favorites. Diecast hoppers a close second, they were quite novel when they came out the first go round.
Those dicast k-line items are great, they have such good deatail and are so rugged.
Bob Nelson
My switch question was a responce this this entry:
willpick wrote:Hands down, the O27 switches that were produced in the 2 years before the end. Totally reliable, VERY low profile mechanism. It's the only K-Line product I want Lionel to produce---
Hello,
I have a Lionel 022 O27 switch that turns into an O27 curve and to a siding where I keep my K-line GP38. The fuel tank rubs (Barely) the box part of the switch when I take the GP-38 out to the main O42 line. If I replace the 022 switch with the K-line O27 switch, will by GP38 go trough the switch without rubbing?
The g scale GP engin I bought last year is broken and no one can fix it for a good price.
I liked it very much and finished out the paint scheam -it came all yellow and I had to put red trim and gray top on it. but now it looked fine! But the axel gears are spliting one gone and crackes in the others. my repair man said I could get some made for $75 - but that is the price of the engin!!!
Has any one had these made or know of how to get them from k-line / lionel.
MY repair man said athen's gears are made the same and split - and do have replacment parts.
and and another g scale train has a gear like this but has a differen # of teeth and will not mesh with k-line worm gear.
Help for a favorite product!
Their new low profile O-27 switches were the only products of their I have bought in the past 5 years or so. I really hope Lionel decides to bring them back.
J White
How about all of the great Die-Cast Scale Steam Engines that could run on 0-36 Fastrack (and even 0-31 Tubular).
And let's not forget about the Die-Cast Hoppers and well detailed reefers.
With K-Line, you felt you got a little bit more for your money.
Doug Murphy 'We few, we happy few, we band of brothers...' Henry V.
Allan Miller wrote:That's an easy one for me: the little Plymouth switchers. I have a bunch of them, and plan to buy more, as long as Lionel keeps them coming. I once collected K-Line S-2 switchers, and at one point had more than 80 of them--all in different liveries. Sold nearly all of them--mostly at York--but I still have a couple or so stored somewhere around here and they'll likely be sold if/when I run across them.
That's an easy one for me: the little Plymouth switchers. I have a bunch of them, and plan to buy more, as long as Lionel keeps them coming.
I once collected K-Line S-2 switchers, and at one point had more than 80 of them--all in different liveries. Sold nearly all of them--mostly at York--but I still have a couple or so stored somewhere around here and they'll likely be sold if/when I run across them.
I read an article you wrote years ago on those switchers, Allan. Enjoyable and informative reading. A black Santa Fe would have been of interest to me.
Allan Miller wrote: That's an easy one for me: the little Plymouth switchers. I have a bunch of them, and plan to buy more, as long as Lionel keeps them coming. I once collected K-Line S-2 switchers, and at one point had more than 80 of them--all in different liveries. Sold nearly all of them--mostly at York--but I still have a couple or so stored somewhere around here and they'll likely be sold if/when I run across them. Those Plymouth switchers are great runners, I would of got the k-line porter but it was pretty oversized.
Those Plymouth switchers are great runners, I would of got the k-line porter but it was pretty oversized.
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