The Official K-Line Photo and Appreciation Thread

To all K-line fans,  Be very careful when handling those prized loco's with all the super details and piping.

Why? They're not any more fragile than anything from Lionel or MTH.

I handle all my trains with extra care just out of habit. However, I did notice on the Hudson I had to be a lot more careful with its near-JLC series level of added detail.

I love My K-line. Great runners. And I find K-line to be fairly durable, now my JLC allegheny is fragile.

 

 

We like our K-line Big Boy,  Its not scale but looks great on our little layout.  We have 12 of the matching yellow boxcars that complete it.  It has lots of detail, smokes great and can pull the house off its foundation.  Nick   

They made some nice rolling stock too!

 

K Line diner, slightly modified.

 

Here's mine. BF

 

 

 

Love the detailing on the K-Line locomotives, especially the steamers.  Here's a couple of mine.  The Mikado was converted to PS/2 and now has a fan driven smoke unit with synchronized chuffing, looks very good running down the rails.

 

 

Boiler belly and motor in firebox.  Not at all fragile in comparison to brass scale models. These things are rugged.

Museum Hudson - donated by K-Line, 2-railed and boiler bellied by me, and the socks run off it by the museum.  Motor in firebox.

 

4449 Looks awesome!

 

I currently only have 4 true K-Line cars.

 

This Conrail bay window caboose is one of my favorites

 

A couple old traditional sized gondolas

 

It's a Boy hopper from when my brother was born

 

I have a few K-Line/Lionel items as well

This is my favorite of those though

If you want to start posting rolling stock, I could post all day!   I have lots of K-Line.  I have more engines as well, I really do like their stuff.

Post away John. It's the official thread for all things K-Line 

Two A5's, a B6 and a another one, a 4-6-6t arriving via Ups tomorrow. All TMCC. I think of them as value plus. Plus lots of smoking cabeese (sic), smoking yard office, remote switches (o-27) 27"and 42" and any operating stuff that is not too modern (Marx replicas ) that pass for steam era. Not sure what I am going to purchase next. Try not to spend more than $300.00 at a time. But the last one was on sale for $450.00 at Western Depot and would not have bought if it had not been discounted. I am always amazed, amused at how much more the 0-4-0 tenders weigh compared to more expensive Lionel. I guess someday they will even have more scrap value. Even found some 40" straights (they are actually a tad bit longer than Lionel) put in the Charles Ro Lionel rack by mistake and decided I liked the tie spacing and the price better. Of course someday when I am older and wiser. Only 55. I may look back and realize how foolish I have been not to pay $$$$ for newer less detailed stuff. ; ) FMH

We were fortunate to have two K-Line Hudsons at the same time. No 5344 is conventional and will eventually be converted to PS2 and MTH smoke.

No 5343 is Nick's new acquisition and his photos really do it justice!

In the second photo, the third model on the left is MTH's first scale Hudson from 1996. It is surprisingly close in detail to the K-Line and quite a nice model.

 

Guys,

     My favourite K-Line item is the operating cars that work with the handheld remote controller. My kids sure love being able to dump logs, coal, freight or milk cans anywhere on the layout. I've got the milk can loading platform to install on the layout for Christmas. I sure wish someone would start making these cars again.

 

Jay in Ottawa

 

 

Jim please post your K-Line rolling stock and engines.

 

 

 

 

The only K-line piece I own, painted up as a believable representation of a Northern Pacific Class W mikado.

 

Regards,

GNNPNUT

 

 

 

the 21 inch passenger cars

 

 

K-line rocks!

 

Almost forgot about my 15" passenger cars, nice looking without all of the overhang

I love the 15" K-Line passenger cars that look pretty  nice on my 048 FasTrack curves.

My only K-Line. An ATSF 3003 K4 Pacific.

 

 

 

Hello guys and gals.

 

Did K-line make scale Santa Fe heavyweights passenger cars ? 

 

the woman who loves the S.F.#5021

Tiffany

Did anybody not make Santa Fe?

 

K-line made the Chief, K-44301 (18"), at least. I'm pretty sure there was more.

I show no Santa Fe heavyweights and can't even find K-44301

Don

Show it where?

 

It's in the collectors guide.

My K-Line Pacific

I've waited a long time to be able to photograph this set. K-Line 5343 with Lionel Commodore Vanderbilt heavyweights:

 

 

Nickville never really had a very good sense of geography...

 

Here's a video of the K-Line Hudson in action. It runs and sounds surprisingly nice, even without cruise and the latest RailSounds. It also smokes beautifully on the first lap, but tapers off to almost nothing much too quickly for my liking. Will have to look into this.

Erie F-3 & Lackawana set. (unweathered)

 

 

 

Steve C.

The "newest" and last Milwaukee K-line F unit. Think these really outdid every other F-3s at the time. Don

Don, are your sure that's not an F-7?

Vuican, some of K-line's F units were called F-3s and other of the same style engine were called F-7. Someone on the forum said it depended on the paint job. I'm not sure. Looking in my catalogs yes your right, they called it a F-7. Thanks Don

These two K-line engines look the same to me other than the paint. Anyone know the difference? I'm sure there is a difference but I can't see any. Don

The K-Line version of New York Central E-units are pretty striking IMHO.  

 

 

Love those chrome hoppers

 

- Mike