There is an eBay listing for a K-Line plastic PRR heavyweight Pullman that is 21” long named "Lawmaker", full interior with Overhead StreamLighting® Illumination. I’ve never seen a K-line heavyweight that was 21” long. Did K-line ever make 21” heavyweights?
Ron
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Ron....not to my knowledge. Their heavyweights were 18" long.
Alan
I saw that too and was majorly confused. Can't find it anywhere on the Legacy K-Line website and the seller does not give any item numbers 
UPDATE:
Looks like someone already bought it. Here's another one the same seller has:
I saw that too and was majorly confused. Can't find it anywhere on the Legacy K-Line website and the seller does not give any item numbers
UPDATE:
Looks like someone already bought it. Here's another one the same seller has:
Check out the picture in that listing referenced above...sure looks like that car is sitting on 2 pieces of 10" Fastrack joined together. That makes the car just about 21".
The car does not look like a K-Line product. Their steps were different, for one thing.
This is not the first time an eBay seller has inaccurately described a product.
I'm thinking that is a GGD 21" car.
K-Line was the only, or at lest the first to offer Stream-Lighting in their cars. As for the 21" car I thought they did make scale passenger cars. I never bought any of them so I can in no way be considered an expert. But, I seem to remember us talking about them on this site.
If I was the first to post on this thread I would of said yes it is probably a K-Line car.
Look up K line # 1217B - Set of 21" passenger cars on the Legacy K line Site.
CSX Business Train Set
Also Set 4610D C * O 21" Aluminum Cars
There are lots more sets of 21" Cars GN, Santa Fe, etc.
I believe those are aluminum. An F40PH wouldn't be pulling heavyweights.
K-line made 15" and 18" hvywts, but no 21". Just aluminum.
There are lots more sets of 21" Cars GN, Santa Fe, etc.
Yes they are 21', but are they heavyweights? I think they are all more modern streamlined cars.
Might be a Golden Gate Depot car. GGD heavyweights are 20-21" long. I'd have to dig very deep to check mine, but I think some of them have that hybrid roof like the SP car in the picture. GGD is the only manufacturer I know of that has ever made plastic heavyweight cars longer than 18", except for the European cars from MTH.
My hunch was that they were GGD cars as well. K-Line only made aluminum streamliners in the 21" size, while their heavyweights only got up to 18".
K-Line, GGD who cares. Thats a great deal for an SP modeler.
Pete
What is a GGD car? Is it similar in quality to 3 Rail Brass?
Have seen the name GGD mentioned another time, so I thought that I would try to find out.
Some info on K-Line 18 inch heavyweight cars, some have move-able doors and some doors just stay closed.
Lee Fritz
Golden Gate Depot a division of 3rd Rail. www.goldengatedepot.com
GGD heavyweight cars are exquisitely detailed and reasonably priced, but the details are fragile and you don't even want to think about running them on anything less than 0-72 curves. Several of mine came out of the box with details already broken off. I fixed them but it wasn't easy due to the very small size of some of the parts, giving you rather little to glue onto. Most of them have body mounted couplers, except for baggage and RPO cars which do not have end steps.
GGD's streamliners are made of extruded aluminum; only the heavyweights are plastic.
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