Hey Everyone! Just posted a blog episode reviewing my "New to Me" New York Central 21" O-Scale Passenger Cars by K-Line. Enjoy!
- Jason
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Great video my friend! Thanks for sharing.
Great cars!
@jdstucks posted:Hey Everyone! Just posted a blog episode reviewing my "New to Me" New York Central 21" O-Scale Passenger Cars by K-Line. Enjoy!
- Jason
Nice cars. Nice track work, too. I have Santa Fe and Milwaukee Road in my fleet.
K-Line factory made the power pick up pivot pin out of aluminum. The pin oxidizes and aluminum oxide is an insulator. That makes the current for the lighting go through the spring, overheats the spring, and the spring loses its temper. Then that pickup becomes flaccid and does not contact the center rail correctly.
One of the Jim Barrett videos shows how to use super flex wire to jumper around the pivot on the center rail pickups. I do that to all of my K-Line streamlined aluminum cars before running them.
If you look at the one car whose lights blink going over the switches, you may find that one pickup has a bad spring. The danger is that the others will go bad soon, once they have enough track time at 18 volts on them.
Beautiful set Jason. The Atlas track is really nice as well. Wait until you have it ballasted and weathered!
Now that is one gorgeous set! I love NYC stuff and have been a subscriber to your YouTube channel for a while. Always wished you went with more transition era NYC stuff as your layout has always been awesome and this one looks like it will shape up to be another fantastic showpiece.
Great video and consist, Jason.......enjoy!!!!
Peter
Nicely done. I have the K-Line PRR set and like yours are really nice looking cars. I run them with GGD cars for a longer train and it is hard to tell the difference between the makes.
I checked your YouTube channel and you have done some really good videos. However, I could not find any mentioned of the diesels. Who made them? Thanks.
Absolutely gorgeous.
Congrats!
- Mario
I'll have to tune in soon Jason. I think I have a few videos of yours in my watch later videos along with tons of other stuff. I have browsed a few times over K-Line NYC cars as well as a few others. Haven't bitten on anything yet, just considering stuff as it were.
@CAPPilot posted:Nicely done. I have the K-Line PRR set and like yours are really nice looking cars. I run them with GGD cars for a longer train and it is hard to tell the difference between the makes.
I checked your YouTube channel and you have done some really good videos. However, I could not find any mentioned of the diesels. Who made them? Thanks.
Glad you enjoy my videos. The diesels are made by MTH. I believe they hit dealer shelves in October 2019.
- Jason
@Jedderbob posted:Now that is one gorgeous set! I love NYC stuff and have been a subscriber to your YouTube channel for a while. Always wished you went with more transition era NYC stuff as your layout has always been awesome and this one looks like it will shape up to be another fantastic showpiece.
Thanks for subscribing. My era for this layout will primarily be 1995-2015 Conrail era to NS transition. But I also have a growing passion for NYC 40's and 50's and hope to add more in the near future. However, I still don't have a strong desire to model PC to Conrail transition. But who knows, tastes change 
- Jason
@jdstucks posted:Hey Everyone! Just posted a blog episode reviewing my "New to Me" New York Central 21" O-Scale Passenger Cars by K-Line. Enjoy!
- Jason
Great video Jason. Those cars are truly stunning. Can't wait to see them behind the PT tender Hudson 
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Awesome cars Jason!! They really are something special! Enjoy!
Nicely done Jason. These are indeed fine cars. Too bad K-Line only made 6. They have also done fine F7s and E8s. E8s would be most appropriate for the 20th Century in this paint scheme as steam had been phased out by then on the big name trains. Sometime, if you have not seen it already, watch Alfred Hitchcock’s North by Northwest or just google North by Northwest train to see actual photos of the Century.
Pete
Thank you for posting - loved it 👍🏼
As Norton stated, only 6 cars were made for the 20th Century Limited. The K-Line Legacy web site shows up to 17 cars* made for the Empire State Express (I like those silver cars). If you are into NYC trains, this could be your next acquisition goal.
*Two 4-car sets, one 6-car set, and one 3-car set.
To lengthen my train I added two more K-Line cars, duplicates that I will change the number on, plus some GGD heavyweight head end cars. Lionel has done the cars in plastic but even if the paint matches their cars are lower and narrower than K-Line cars. The size difference stands out like a sore thumb unfortunately. GGD has done them too, very nice cars.
Pete
Jason,
If you are interested, lengthening your 20th Century Limited can also be done by adding trans-continental cars from other roads. I know cars from the SF were on the Limited, and the Golden State had a NYC car but not sure which NYC train it was coupled with. I run PRR passenger trains, and I have found 21" cars from other roads made by Lionel, K-Line and GGD that were correct to run on my PRR trains. I'm sure there are some that will fit nicely (and be correct) with your set.
Great video of some nice K-Line cars.
I recently reviewed the drawings for the latest offering of the GGD 1948 20th Century Limited. I learned a lot about the train doing research. The Creek series observation car is the most iconographic car in the set with its large rear windows, but I found the combination of the various sleeping accommodations interesting as well as the setup of twin unit diner with the kitchen and crew dorms and the other car having all the tables.
A set of the K-Line E8s would be prototypically correct to pull the train if you can track a set down. E7s were originally assigned to it and have been done by Lionel and 3rd Rail in the 1948 scheme.
