The End of the Line for O Line?

Wow, I was going to post on this last week but felt it needed more study.

K-line mystery

Sounds crazy, but… on occasion I have stumbled upon O scale K-line cars I’d never seen in the past. These are in the black and yellow boxes. This one has a date listed as 2018. I often thought that someone is secretly still making and selling them at random. There have been several uncatalogued roads recently with-in the past few years that have appeared. Lionel and RMT I thought had the molds, could someone have another set? Your thoughts?

SIRT posted:

Wow, I was going to post on this last week but felt it needed more study.

K-line mystery

Sounds crazy, but… on occasion I have stumbled upon O scale K-line cars I’d never seen in the past. These are in the black and yellow boxes. This one has a date listed as 2018. I often thought that someone is secretly still making and selling them at random. There have been several uncatalogued roads recently with-in the past few years that have appeared. Lionel and RMT I thought had the molds, could someone have another set?  Your thoughts?

 

 

My understanding is that K-Line had a lot of uncatalogued items that were made, and a lot of catalogued items that were not made.  They also made changes during their runs, at least on the scale passenger cars.  For example, the K-Line 21" Great Northern Empire Builder sets had a couple of different sleeper variations that I have seen.

Some cars are offered in the yellow and black boxes which have a brand other than K-Line.  Scale size cars with details, same yellow and black boxes but not the K-Line brand. I do not have a picture to share.  John in Lansing, ILL

rattler21 posted:

Some cars are offered in the yellow and black boxes which have a brand other than K-Line.  Scale size cars with details, same yellow and black boxes but not the K-Line brand. I do not have a picture to share.  John in Lansing, ILL

Aren't those the O-Line products?  It seems that the broad range of K-Line products ended when Lionel shut down the K-Line by Lionel brand name.

There was an O line but not these cars that I am seeing...…………….

Here is the ( K-LINE ) box that was on ebay.

Listing description information dates on several cars was shown as 2018 from the guy in PA.

            I'm talking strictly about true "O" K-Line freight cars in this type of box. I cant state a case for anything else. Also nothing to do with Lionel.

Item specifics

Tons of K-Line cars in that box style, nothing unusual about that.  I believe that color scheme was for their scale sized cars if I remember correctly.  I know I have a bunch of K-Line rolling stock that came in those boxes.  FWIW, I think the seller is mistaken about the year, that's all.  The car from the same run is represented here, made in 2003, which is about right for that car.

http://www.legacykline.com/app...;p_oem_sku=K761-1093

It's always possible that some Chinese manufacturer can decide to turn out new product if it is profitable enough and they have access to the molds in question. I am sure there is a market for the supersnap track because I believe they are superior to the Lionel track and look better in my opinion.  I do have a few 0Line cars as they seem a bit cheaper than other brands. 

JohnF