My favorite thing is the Starlite dinner, plays "The TWIST" and smokes up a storm. You gotta have adinner with girls car hopping in roller skates.
laz57
I like the dump cars that come with their own remote -- for 2 reasons:
1) The cars can be dumped anywhere without the need for specialized track sections.
2) The dumping action is slow enough so the loads don't scatter all over the place.
Also, the Voltmeter cars are a great idea -- they make finding voltage drops on a layout a breeze.
A Day Without Trains is a Day Wasted
GEE is it the GG1, the kcc mp-15 or maybe the SD70M all where KCC locomotives
One thing I want but do not have is the animated fisherman on bridge peir...Lionel please re run these.
My favorite is the F3 ABA set in Lackawanna passenger colors.
laz 57 wrote: My favorite thing is the Starlite dinner, plays "The TWIST" and smokes up a storm. You gotta have adinner with girls car hopping in roller skates.laz57
That... and any of their aluminum freight cars. Tank cars and especially the black bonnet aluminum hopper cars.
Tim
Man, tough question for me. My early train purchases definitely sided with K-Line over Lionel nearly 4 to 1. Price was a big factor and the reasonable quality for that price. Needless to day for those who know me, the MARX 027 based products rank high on my list. I have a fleet of K-Line S-2 switchers, MP-15's and Alco FA's. For an 027 guy like me, the K-Line S-2 is my favorite loco and am very happy to see it finally back in production under the K-Lionel banner. The K-Line Alco FA is leagues nicer looking than the similar budget Lionel version. And it's hard to beat the bang-for-your-buck MP-15. These locos all have great pulling power and by far better than any similarily priced Lionel single truck mounted DC can motored diesel.
I'd personally love to see those MARX based 027 cars back in production under the K-Lionel banner, only with the better quality paint schemes and graphics like K-Line started doing on them when they marketed those cars as their "S" gauge cars. And it'd be great to see the Symington type plastic truck K-Line used replaced with the current one used by Lionel - which is a superior operating and looking plastic truck to the K-Line version.
Their plastic building kits (though all over the place in scale) are better made than the current Bachmann production Plasticville buildings (of which I've had several terribly warped right out of the box). And they add to variety of the Plasticville buildings. And even the smaller K-Line buildings can be made to seem bigger... like the Police Station - which is now a small factory on my layout by adding a basswood foundation (for height), a new door on the back with a loading dock, and a small Model Power HO water tank on top.
Of course, there are minor quirks about some of the K-Line products, but all of them are fixable. Like the plastic coupler arm on the early Classic box cars has a tendency to come loose from the die-cast assembly when used over a uncoupling track. The plastic on these is a little thicker than the similar Lionel version. I place a finger on the end of the plastic armature where it attaches into the die cast coupler, and I gently flex and bend the entire armature. After I do this, they work just fine. So I have a whole list of things I do to my K-Line cars which makes them work just fine.
To get specific, on some other K-Line items:
To add the lengthy list of dumb moves the original K-Line made, the employee-only Conrail sets rank as a big one.
brianel, Agent 027
"Praise the Lord. I may not have everything I desire, but the Lord has come through for what I need."
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.
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.
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.
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.
Jim
Modeling the Baltimore waterfront in HO scale
Doug Murphy 'We few, we happy few, we band of brothers...' Henry V.
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.
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
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!
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?
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---
Bob Nelson
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.
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.
I'm intrigued by these remote controll dump cars. Might have to buy one!
ALSO...
PRR F3s ABBA runs great just got them. Unbelievable detail.
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?
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