Randy_B posted:That's unfortunate as I have been eyeing these for a while as well. Is it possible Lionel has the tooling for these and we will see them in Legacy sometime?
Although Lionel licensed use of some of K-Line's scale tooling (A5, Pacific, Mikado, Berkshire), to the best of my knowledge Lionel does NOT currently have the 4-6-6T tooling nor the K-Line scale Hudson tooling from which the suburban tank tooling was based. The sub-tank and hudson tooling remain in control of the company or principal (Sanda-Kan/Kader?) that retook K-Line's tooling when K-Line was liquidated. That said, the tooling is likely available to any company that is willing to pay the asking price to either use/license or buy it outright. I agree that the K-Line 4-6-6T (and its Hudson) would be great w/ Lionel Legacy but after all this time I think that Kader might be holding it back in case it ever wants to introduce a detailed scale steam engine to it's Williams by Bachmann line. It's obviously much more expensive to employ that detailed tooling with quality results in today's manufacturing market.
