K-Line Passenger cars - Let's see some photos please

K-Line Super Liners

Sorry forgot the Atlas Zephyr was on there

Here are the 15" B&O cars that I sold recently after acquiring the 21" set. Beautiful cars for smaller layouts.

K-line K-4620G & K-line K-4620J

C&NW 21" passenger car 4-pack & 2-pack sets.

I picked them up from a guy in Australia.  He had converted them to 2 Rail with scale wheels in the 3R coupled wheel sets for ease of running.  I've posted these somewhere here before. While not an exact yellow match they look nice with my 2R Yellow Jacket.....

I have five sets of the K-Line 13 1/2" Streamliners. A NYC set that i've affixed a Tomar "Empire State Express" drumhead to, a PRR "Fleet of Modernism" set, the baggage car and combine from which i'll be posting on the "For Sale" board tonight or tomorrow. A set that i've added ribbed siding to and have made into a PRR "Senator" complete with a blunt end observation and appropriate drumhead. A set painted and numbered after the late 1940's LV "Black Diamond" with a correct solarium car made out of a Williams observation shortened complete with correct solarium windows and A/C duct on the roof; it has a CN pullman in the consist to be interchanged at Buffalo. Finally a set that i've modified to NH Osgood Bradley windows including the cafe car. Here's a few of them. Sorry I still haven't mastered a digital camera

Santa Fe 1821 as manufactured

Dining car with shades and curtains added

Baggage car repainted to New Haven

Repainted for messenger service

Repainted to Santa Fe colors

Sleeping car repainted into Pullman sleeping car

As from the factory

Interior painted red

Interior painted green

1821 with messenger window.

John in Lansing, ILL

While they are not scale, I like the look of The Fleet of Modernism cars behind a K-Line "Black Jack" GG1. 

The don't look bad behind a red Lionel repaint, either.

modeltrainsparts posted:

I have five sets of the K-Line 13 1/2" Streamliners. A NYC set that i've affixed a Tomar "Empire State Express" drumhead to, a PRR "Fleet of Modernism" set, the baggage car and combine from which i'll be posting on the "For Sale" board tonight or tomorrow. A set that i've added ribbed siding to and have made into a PRR "Senator" complete with a blunt end observation and appropriate drumhead. A set painted and numbered after the late 1940's LV "Black Diamond" with a correct solarium car made out of a Williams observation shortened complete with correct solarium windows and A/C duct on the roof; it has a CN pullman in the consist to be interchanged at Buffalo. Finally a set that i've modified to NH Osgood Bradley windows including the cafe car. Here's a few of them. Sorry I still haven't mastered a digital camera

That's really neat Jackson - How did you do that?

I picked up a K-line LIRR Greenport Scoot set last year. Very nicely detailed cars with full interiors. Still don't understand how K-line went out of business with such nice products.

Bob

K-Line K4670A New York Central Empire State Express 15" 4-PAC
Catalog: 1999 1st Edition, M.S.R.P.: $ 399.95
Aluminum passenger cars include;
K4670-12564 “Thomas E. Dewey” coach car, road number 2564
K4670-15021 “Alonzo B. Cornell” Railway Post Office car, road number 5021
K4670-10054 “Theodore Roosevelt” observation car, road number 54
K4670-10688 “John Jay” diner car, road number 688

My K-Line NCDOT set.

To be pulled by my K-line "City of Salisbury" F59PHi.

Ron

Nothing "earth shattering" about these, kinda generic I suppose, but I'm a big fan of K Lines 15" cars.

They are scale height and width and look just fine behind a scale locomotive, but being shorter, lack the overhang and look better on sub o-72 radius track.

The lighting is great, and as long as the track is clean flickering is a non-issue.

The only thing I had to do was pry between the electrical wipers and the axles to relieve some of the drag.  Once I did that, they rolled fantastic

I had a set of railking 15" cars, but the proportions are better on the K Line, most obvious was the larger scale trucks on the K Line.

Heres some shots of the 4870C NYC 6-pack.

Sure wish I could have got them for the $150 MSRP, that would have been robbery.

Kline also seemed to do a nicer job  with coupler spacing. These cars are "fairly close", and don't have those lonnng tunnel  diaphragms like those on MTH for instance. And of course......no ugly thumbtacks

Heres a 4 car takeout from the 4880G Broadway Limited 6 pack set I purchased from a forum member.

TEDW's set above is another fine example, I may just have to aquire one like it some day.

I'm suprised Lionel, or another manufacturer hasn't gotten their hands on the tooling, maybe they have and will.

Six of the ten cars in this train are K-line.

c.sam posted:

modeltrainsparts posted:

I have five sets of the K-Line 13 1/2" Streamliners. A NYC set that i've affixed a Tomar "Empire State Express" drumhead to, a PRR "Fleet of Modernism" set, the baggage car and combine from which i'll be posting on the "For Sale" board tonight or tomorrow. A set that i've added ribbed siding to and have made into a PRR "Senator" complete with a blunt end observation and appropriate drumhead. A set painted and numbered after the late 1940's LV "Black Diamond" with a correct solarium car made out of a Williams observation shortened complete with correct solarium windows and A/C duct on the roof; it has a CN pullman in the consist to be interchanged at Buffalo. Finally a set that i've modified to NH Osgood Bradley windows including the cafe car. Here's a few of them. Sorry I still haven't mastered a digital camera

That's really neat Jackson - How did you do that?

Sam, It was quite an interesting project. The windows were from American Flyer coaches made in the early 1950's. I found damaged ones (usually with roof damage caused by a misplaced soldering iron) at train shows for $4 - $5. Often i was able to sell the trucks and couplers for that much at a different table at the same show!). After carefully measuring i removed the window area from the K-Line cars using the combination of a VERY sharp X-Acto knife and a Zona saw. It was a slow time consuming process. Next came removal of the window strips from the American Flyer Cars. This was not so easy as the plastic used in them tended to crumble. After many attempts (including using a water cooled laser cutting tool at GE - just don't tell GE's management about that), my friend and fellow train buddy suggested using his band saw with a very fine toothed blade running at a slow speed.  It worked. Then it was a matter of gluing the strips in with Plastruct Plastic Weld and reinforcing them vertically from behind with narrow pieces of .040" styrene glued in the same way. Imperfections were then filled with Squadron White and sanded with 1200 grit wet/dry paper, primed with Testor's in a rattle can, painted with Scalecoat II in a rattle can, hand painted the window frames, forgot where the LV decals came from, had the NH ones custom made. It took 1 1/2 Flyer cars as donors to make one K-Line car I made 3 NH coaches and a NH cafe car and 1 LV Coach. The project stretched well over a year, off and on, and was very labor and bourbon intensive. Thanks for the compliment.

Here's my favorite set of K-Line cars, the "28th Anniversary Set," a great throwback to the prewar Lionel 2623 "Manhattan" cars. The only thing I wish K-Line did on this was make it a 6-car set.