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Bill

I don’t think Lionel owned K Line, I think they just had license to produce product under the K Line name and use the tooling.  If I recall, when K Line/Lionel went kaput, there was much chatter on the relationship with Lionel and the Chinese company that had all the tooling.  I think it was the holder of the tooling and K Line name in China that backed out on Lionel.  That might not be exactly how it played out, but I’m pretty sure Lionel’s relationship with the K Line brand ended for reasons outside Lionel’s control.  

I don’t know if the threads about that are retrievable, I think the last K Line by Lionel catalog was like 2011ish??? Would have happened around then. 

Ben

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