Kusan Space and Military Trains beat Lionel to Market in the Space and Military Race

I always liked the floating ball car! SORRY, I do not have a number!

Yup:

* Kusan beat Lionel to the military train market.

* Lionel beat Kusan in the military train market.

I like Kusan's tooling, but the actual equipment wasn't of very good quality, and then you had that two rail power distribution.

Still, I find the Kusan line quite interesting.

Andre

^ The satellite launching car. Lionel used the same principal using it for their Target launching car with a balloon instead of a Styrofoam ball and toothpicks.

You can run Kusan two rail pickup on Gargraves track, albiet on it own segregated trackage.    

Jesse  TCA

When I want to run my Kusan 2 rail Alcos on my layout I use K-Lines 2 motor Alco chassis, fits perfectly.

@Choo Choo Charlie posted:

Then came the KR-119 Satellite Train shown Below

 

The only Kusan car I have is the KMT 401098 USA Searchlight Car.  The body was also sold as the PA 224 Generator Car, Space Research Car or U S Army K 806.

Mine came without the searchlight and I installed a flashing light and a plastic dome and a light on the operator and have made it into an Atomic Generator Car shown below.

It was not often that a train company beat Lionel at anything.

Charlie

Charlie,

 Thanks for the post.  I have heard about Kusan tooling but I didn't really know anything about them.  Finding out they made two rails trains is a revelation to me.  

In the picture above, I actually like the big red flashing light better than the searchlight!  In the satellite train photo, what does that load behind the engine say?  IT looks like Dynamic Injection Compressoritron?  It's that last word that is throwing me off, and it doesn't get any clearer when I zoom in!

It says “COMPRESSORTRON” with no “I”. Not a word in very wide usage!

I've seen the satellite car at shows, but didn't know that it floated a styrofoam ball. Has anybody done that with the Lionel version? It'd certainly be cheaper than those Lionel logo balloons.