K-Line Commemorative Quarter State Series: Was there an Engine?

Never saw or heard of anything but the cars.  There were a ton of the freight cars, but I never heard of an engine or caboose to go with them.  I have half a dozen of the cars, but it looked too daunting to try to collect them all.  I think they got about 35-40 of them out, but didn't complete the set.  They are nice quality cars.

I thought it was this..

I believe a caboose was also made

@EMD posted:

I believe a caboose was also made

Turns out it was. Lionel apparently picked up where K-Line left off and finished everything up with a caboose and GG-1 in 2009.

Thanks for helping me sleuth this out guys!

http://catalogs.lionel.com/200...l5/mobile/index.html

@NYCBuffalo posted:

I thought it was this..

Bingo! That’s it! Thanks!!

Here is a picture of the complete set.

Including caboose, I count 51 cars. That’s quite a train for a single engine to pull!

@Mark V. Spadaro posted:

Including caboose, I count 51 cars. That’s quite a train for a single engine to pull!

I was wondering the same thing! And some of those cars are diecast and quite hefty! I wonder how that GG-1 fares?

@Mark V. Spadaro posted:

Including caboose, I count 51 cars. That’s quite a train for a single engine to pull!

Not really, just have to pick a suitable locomotive.

54 cars and up a grade….pretty impressive.

GRJ - was thinking about the K-Line GG1 made to accompany the commemorative coin set.

@Mark V. Spadaro posted:

GRJ - was thinking about the K-Line GG1 made to accompany the commemorative coin set.

The diecast GG1 is pretty good puller but the gondolas are all diecast and the tank cars have diecast frames. I would be surprised if any engine could pull all 51.

Pete

Buy 2 double head done

@gunrunnerjohn posted:

Not really, just have to pick a suitable locomotive.

All I can say is “Tanks John” for sharing! 🤣

@NYCBuffalo posted:

I thought it was this..

That's what I consider the unofficial loco for the set.

I also have an unofficial 50 state quarters caboose.

And purchased the 2 transparent US Mint tank cars - Denver and Philadelphia).

You can see all the cars and the loco, caboose, and 2 US Mint cars here: http://www.dog-walker.org/trai..._Quarters_Series.htm

Did they actually make all 50 of the bank cars?

@gunrunnerjohn posted:

Did they actually make all 50 of the bank cars?

@gunrunnerjohn - Yes they did. You can see all of them on my website (link in the above post).