K Line die cast cars?

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Portzbe

The Scranton Hobby special run was four die cast hoppers in Lackawanna  The set you mention was a special run by Emery  EL Gondola, Erie Hopper, and Lackawanna Hopper.

Diesel Dan

I do believe that body is die cast

I only have one K-line diecast boxcar, labeled for the old original Norfolk Southern Railway[seen in photo below]. Most of my K-line are plastic with diecast trucks and many early ones are semi-scale.

Several of my tankers and hoppers are diecast. 

I have a number of KLine diecast boxcars, the bodies are diecast.  A local hobby shop was blowing them out (10 years ago) because no one wanted them.  They have a good home!

Stack

Yes, the entire car is diecast. The roof walks and trim detail are all metal. I have about 10 of these boxcars. They made some reefers but I don't think they are as nice (only my opinion). The Cotton Belt as shown seems to be one of the most common along with a silver Seaboard. This only based on my observations. The hard ones to find are the WP and jade NYC. These are on eBay now but not worth $129 each. I have not seen the New Haven or Penn Central versions, they may not exist based on the dates K-Line went OOB.

Great cars, great detail, great graphics but boy they are heavy!!! I would like to find the two I am missing.

I think this link will work but here is a list from the ol k-line site.

http://www.legacykline.com/app...ml?useraction=search

I really like metal models.  Delighted with the K- Line hoppers with 700-series bolsters and scale trucks.  Semi- delighted with the gons - do not like the plastic underframes, so I make my own.  Did not like the box car at all - nice casting, but designed to be toy- like.  Opinion.

I have about 30 K-652 series die cast gondola's, they are great cars, when I give one of them a push on a clear track, WOW!!!. they really go. I also have the jade, NYC boxcar in diecast and several flat cars.

The K-line die cast were real quality cars. IMHO.

These are great cars, but I usually run a short train....they're heavy. I have an Alaska gondola, hopper and boxcar, a couple of Blue Coal hoppers and a C&O boxcar. I have a couple of Timken tank cars, and they are diecast also, IIRC.

I have a few of their box cars. There nice cars but I never really saw the need of them. There too heavy for no reason. Don

I've got a couple of boxcars, and some die-cast gondolas and hoppers.  As Don says, they're heavy for no good reason.  If you run long trains with grades, they're a liability.  You also have to make sure you have them near the front of the consist.  Nice cars, but I don't go out of my way to obtain them.

Yeah, heavy pull up grade and will really push going down hill,  good excuse for a lash-up . I feel like I got my money's worth just by the weight of them. I have about 10 hoppers.

Don't forget the die dcast box cars ( and tank cars)  done by MTH

I have a couple of the die cast hoppers -- a TCA CNW and a Southern Pacific -- and an SP die cast hopper. They're heavy, but they track very well in the front of a train. From time to time I think about putting Kadee couplers and scale wheels on them.

A few years ago a 2-rail operator at a show had a string of 2-railed K-Line die cast hoppers. They tracked beautifully because of the extra weight.

Wasn't really impressed with the box car.

I have the set that the SHC made, DL&W Phoebe snow box car, gondola and hopper.  I know they made this set of three I have been shopping there for 20 years and got them from the owner,

I am not familiar with the four car set you are refering to

The missing name is "RailBox". I was going to post a photo of mine, but the nameless link points to a better photo than I can get on the spur of the moment.

Hm...I seem to have more diecast cars than I thought

---PCJ

Big thanks to 'moed321' for the great K-Line 'legacy' link. I had no idea of the vastness of the K-line product line, and I may be naive, but once you get past the predictable low-cost stuff, K-line actually made some pretty great models, reasonably priced. Not news to some, but if I was only sure that repairs and maintenance for their better stuff were going to happen, I might be tempted to save up for some K-line that still catches my eye.

There is very little on most K-Line products that you can't still repair, don't let that stop you.  I have a bunch of K-Line stuff, they had some very nice locomotives, accessories, and rolling stock.

Prior to their legal entanglings with Lionel, K-Line was light years ahead of their time with some terrific offerings with nice levels of detail at GREAT price points.  I particularly liked their scale-sized aluminum tank cars.  Best stuff on the market in their day, and those tankers still hold their own with stuff produced today!

David

K Line Die Cast (only the gondola).....always liked the Die Cast Line.

You're right David, I do like the aluminum tank cars, and they're not so heavy as to create issues, but they have a nice "heft" to them.

I'm a big fan of K-line die cast. I like to run 3 diesels pulling 10 die cast hoppers.  Runs great even up my poorly designed grades with turns. Awesome look. I can run that single train for an hour no problem and just look at it. I also ave six die cast box cars which weigh a ton. They look awesome also. I don't know how to explain it but somehow I just " see and feel" the weight as the train climbs a hill. Great stuff. I really wish K-line didn't have to go away. 

Also awesome are K-line's die cast 16-wheel flatcars with loads (pipes, steel girders, transformers, ship screws, etc).  These must weight 3 or 4 lbs.  However, I have to talk to myself to be patient when putting one of these on the track

Bill

I think we may have some of these listed on our web site.

Couldn't agree more.

I have several scale K-Line steamers and love them all. Very nice detail and they generally run quite well. 

You can still get replacements for most any of the TMCC and RS boards that might fail. I have had no issues with mine at all.

A few months back I converted a scale NYC Hudson to PS-2 and it is a favorite.

As John said, don't let fear and common sense hold you back!

Rod