A great surprise buy at York.

Nice. Enjoy.

That's a great find Marty.

Enjoy!

Hi Marty,

  You definitely need more passenger cars!! I can remember seeing those in the past, they are very nice cars for sure. I always said K-line did in fact make some great items over the years. Hope all is fine with you & Dotty. I am trying to get momma to make some more of those brownies, but no luck yet!!

Take care,

Jeff

Nice find Marty.  I love the K Line 18" cars a have a few full sets of them.

great find, I am still looking for the dome car...

Enjoy them Marty and Dotty, they are indeed beautiful cars. I too was fortunate enough to find the 8 cars at once; not quite at the deal you got.

They do look impressive with all 8 cars together. 

Nice! 

This is just the perfect illustration of the fact that you never know just what you might find at York.

Andy

Yes these cars just have those colors that make your eyes pop:

This is a great set; I agree that you should keep it.  Technically there are 10 cars you can get: the original 8-car set, the add on dome, and a factory error dome.  Some folks do not run the domes because the actual Golden State did not have any, but I think they look good. I pull mine with Lionel's Rock Island E6 AA set.  FYI: this E6 set has the actual engine numbers that pulled the GS after WWII.

Ron

hmm the elusive Lionel Rock Island E6's,   cannot find these anywhere, could you grace us with some pictures? K line made a set of E-8/9's , which are impossible to find as well...

J Daddy,

I'm probably part of the problem with you not being able to find any Lionel RI E6 AA sets; I bought two to have two powered AAs to pull the 10 cars plus an extra baggage and RPO.  Unfortunately, I did not take any pictures of them before I put them in storage while rebuilding my layout.

The K-Line RI E8s do come up once in awhile and are beautiful engines.  I recommend Marty get a set of these to pull his GS cars; that would be a great consist.

I acquired almost all of the cars as they were released. The only one I missed out on was the second dome car (I believe it was "Golden Moon"), which I was unaware of till well after they'd pretty much vanished. Before Ebay went paypal-only I pursued one example till its going price was well above $110 before dropping out.

Convinced I wasn't going to find one, I added three unboxed MTH Golden Rocket cars I found at York. Just this past one I spotted a couple of GS sets in Silver Hall, but alas, the dome I'm looking for wasn't among them.

---PCJ

I always wanted that set as well as the American Freedom Train set.  I do not like chasing cars and want to buy complete sets.  I have many K-Line aluminum sets and enjoy them very much.  Again, a great surprise.

Marty my Friend....what a great buy!!  I have those cars and they are gorgeous with the matching locomotives!  I think you are the "King" of passenger cars!! 

Alan

Congratulations on getting that set.  I was able to get the whole set along with the Rock Island motive power to pull it when it was released.  These cars are really one of K-Line's nicest.  I think that you got those cars for a real steal,Marty.

Norm

Wow. Selling 18" K-Line aluminum cars for $43.75/car!? Not sure what that guy was thinking (or smoking), but certainly a rare find, Marty. Don't see deals like that very often. Good find.