K-Line Allegheny

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What specific parts are you interested in?  If you have any questions, I have a K-Line Allegheny that I upgraded to cruise, fan driven smoke, and of course, the Super-Chuffer.  Many of the parts are generic unless you're looking for major mechanical parts.

For K-line it is based on the series #.  I believe it is lower on the Brasseur list to find what you need. I think it might be the 3700 series #s.   I would call them though.  They bought out the K-line stock, so if you ask them they can tell you if they have it. G

The smoke units are standard Lionel for the fan driven, and the puffers are just like Lionel as well.  The smoke resistors for most of those are just the 27 ohm standard Lionel smoke resistors.  Smoke resistors are wire wound resistors at either 2W or 3W power rating.  For better smoke, I usually cut the value down to 20-22 ohms.  I buy my resistors at Digikey.

Hi John

What is the part number at Digikey, please.

Kris

This is the 20 ohm 2W Wirewound Resistor that I use.  Note that it's ceramic powder coated.  I take the Dremel wire wheel and gently remove the powder coating to expose the windings.  If you go with the windings and keep the pressure low, just the ceramic coating comes off.

Hi Everyone,

Thank you for all the replies. What a great fraternity to belong too! The first part is the smoke unit. It burned out for the second time but now there are no more units available from K-Line to replace it with. Gunrunnerjohn if you have a part number that is still available from Lionel I'll give it a try. The other part is the small plastic bushing that slides in to the trailing truck and retains the axle. They all seem to fit loosely and occasionally fall out. I would order a few to keep on hand.  Did K-Line make a part drawing available to the end users. Thank you and keep warm!

No part list or I have not seen one.  Those bearing can be an issue.  Brassuer has them and you can search through lionel parts with pictures to try and find a suitable match.

Or put a dab of super glue on them and reinsert.

At some point the K-line parts will dry up.  So take care of it. 

You smoke can be rebuilt it you can't do it.  Any properly sized element will work, you need to determine why they are burning up though.  Running dry?  Fan not working?  Wrong size resistor?  G

Like George says, unless you've toasted the circuit board or broken the cast base of the smoke unit, everything else is just common parts.

SteamO 1,

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PCRR/Dave

I bought one of these in like new condition, maybe only run once or twice.  The trailing truck wheel sets fell out due to the bushings coming out.  Turns out they were installed upside down.  I flipped them over and they snapped into place.  Since then I have had no problems.

Thanks John. Any pictures?

Pictures of what?  Are you talking about the smoke mods?

Hi John

"I take the Dremel wire wheel and gently remove the powder coating to expose the windings." A picture of what the windings look like after you removed the ceramic coating.

Here's a before and after.  I just knock the powdered ceramic off, it doesn't have to be perfect, I'm just looking to expose the nichrome wire for better performance.

Thank you John