Quikrete Internet Store Has Some K-Line Superstreets Left

"the  grease on their gears is probably the consistency of hardened epoxy."

 

Lee-

Or perhaps more appropriately , the consistency of hardened Quikrete.

 

Mack

I think you are correct! 

Thank you. Ordered more stuff I don't need. (Lol)

The Mack flatbed is cool too.....but it's 1/34 scale.....never understood that scale!!!

Just an update, but perhaps important for anyone like me, who is or plans to bash 'Streets into scale models of buses, large trucks, and tractor trailers.  

 

The order I placed arrived today.  The step vans Quikrete is selling are  early K-Line production, not K-Line by Lionel.

 

One big difficulty in building big buses or rigs is finding wheels that both look automotive or trucklike and are the right size.  You can use pilot wheels for locos - some are the right size, but they look train-like.  By far the best ever made for this purpose are those on the original K-Line Step Van.  They are 22 mm in diameter, a scale 42 inches (at 1:48) or 36 inches (1:43) - i.e., big truck or big bus wheels. After Lionel took over K-Line they simplified 'Streets production by shifting the step van to the smaller wheels used on the panel van (which WBB still has in production) - they are actually closer to scale for the step van, so I don't really blame them, but . . . .  Those are are noticeably smaller, about scale medium truck size.   They do not look quite as good on a tractor trailers or Corgi bus conversions as those earlier wheels.    (BTW wheels from the 'Streets shorty bus are bigger still but too big (and too wide) to fit many diecast models or tractor trailers or buses.

 

It is very hard to find these early K-Line step vans.  A lot of places selling step-vans NIB, such as "those auction sites," most often sell the later production with smaller wheels, even if the photo they show a K-Line one of the step van with big wheels (that happened to me - I ordered two Quikrete vans from the big auction site and they had small wheels - not a total lose but not what I wanted.).  

 

Anyway, as soon as I saw the ones I ordered had the right wheels I went back and ordered more of the Step Van: this is the only site I know know for sure what I am getting.  And yes, it does get expensive: one eighteen wheeler requires five axles which means you sacrifice 2.5 of these things, but that's just how it is . . .