Need advice? Working on a Christmas layout requiring 40 pcs. of 0-42 curved track. I have found 40 pcs of used K-line, super O track( made in China,on back) for $2.50 each. Will this match up with other Lionel O track? How about switches? Not sure I want to mess with this--Advice! Thanks, Don
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Do you mean Super "K" ?
It should "match" up with Lionel, if you mean connecting.
Is it super O track or Super K track? K line made a tubular track with multiple black plastic ties in O gauge but they called it super K. Do you have any pics of it?
It had alot of plastic ties. Most pieces had black ties, but some had white ties!
K-Line never made super K track. It was called super snap track and held together with pins and snaps. Thay also made shadow rail track which is the same as Super snap except witout the snaps. One can cut the snaps off to make Shadow rail out of super snap. The rail profile is the same as Lionel O-31 tubular. I think RMT still makes 72 switches. All tubular style switches will fit right in including Lionel o22 and Ross tinplate.
The white ties are the Christmas version.
IMHO it is the best tubular track ever made.
I'll go with K-Line Super Snap track. I doubt it will connect with Lionel Super O track, but it works fine. Walter Matuch of RMT and Aristo-Craft sells this track and switches (turnouts) if you need more.
I'm certain that Lionel patented and registered the name "Super O" (like "Standard Gauge"). No one else can use that name or make that track, though topics hoping for a return of Super O are posted here occasionally.
The track with the white ties was also put in the K line girls set. Im not going to argue about snap track but K line definitely made a track that they called super K.
The first link shows snap track, it had electricl contacts similar to MTHs realtrax. At the front bottom of the picture are two adapter tracks which allow you to attach snap track to regular o gauge track. If you look at the ends you will see the electrical connectors and in the center joint you can see where the two sections are connected with pins.
This second link shows what Super K track looks like, it is similar to snap track but it connects with pins.
Yes K-line did have a Super k track line. But I believe it was o-27 profile track. The super snap track will mate with Lionel's regular tubular track. You'll have to get a conversion piece, or cut the plastic connecting tabs and the metal tabs off the piece that you want to mate with lionel.
Bill
Trainfever, the track looked like the second ebay ad--it had the pins. Looks like $2.50 pc. is the going used price once you look at freight. I think, I'll sleep on it! Thanks for all the help! Don
OK. Super K track must be the precursor to Shadow rail track which has the blackened center rail. The super does not according to the picture on the above link.
If regular Lionel tubular has an adaptor to mate to Super O it can be used to mate Shadow rail to Super O.
Not really a precursor, but it was the brown-tie O-27 line. The O-27(42) switches were all actually Super K after they started making them with 30 degree diverging curves instead of the original 90 degree units, which had regular steel ties. They kept the original K-275 & K-276 catalog numbers, though.
Just as a recap, K-Line's first generation Super K track featured black, or brown ties, in both 31 and 42 inch diameters. A special set featuring white ties was made for the Little Girls Train starting in 1991.
The next upgrade was Shadow Rail, that featured a blackened center rail.
Super Snap was the next upgrade, and it featured track sections that locked, or snapped together, this was K-Line's answer to Real Trax and Fastrack.
With Super Snap you could remove the "snap" and mate the track to any other
o gauge track using pins.
I'll post some pictures on the yahoo group in the next day, or so.
Ken
Ken is correct.
Ken, thanks for helping me out on this one. Will O gauge lionel track match up with this
super K track? Or would I have to use 027? Don't want to buy all this track if it is going to open a can of worms! Don
If the K line track has BROWN TIES it is 0-27. Black Ties are "O" Gauge
As Larry indicates, Super K came in both O27 and O profiles (with different colored ties -- not sure what profile the white ties were).
Martin
As Larry indicates, Super K came in both O27 and O profiles (with different colored ties -- not sure what profile the white ties were).
Martin
I have O gauge profile Super K track with black, brown, and white ties.
The white ties would 0 gauge profile, as they were included with Girls Train sets only, and were not offered for separate sale.
Ken
Gentlemen,
Ken is absolutely correect.
PCRR/Dave
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