On my K-Line Yahoo Group, I finally started a Photo Album on K-Line’s Heritage.
This album will feature pics of the original Marx product operating along with it’s K-Line re-creation.
I will be adding to it, and revising it as I get better with the photos. A Kusan Kannonball Alco will also go up soon.
I also have added links for K-Line Parts and Service.
Ken
http://ph.groups.yahoo.com/group/KLineTrains/photos/view/add4?b=2
This is a link to one of the photos
Ken
Ken, you should use the “link” function so folks can just click and go. And really they need to go to the home page, since registration is necessary to view most content.
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/KLineTrains/
On a sort of related note, given the upbeat and positive things Nick Ladd (former VP after Bob Barrett with MDK K-Line) things said about the relationship with K-Line under the Lionel banner at YORK, it’s most unfortunate that the vast majority of new products announced in the Volume One 2007 catalog released last February are still not even shipped. Many of the products have been pushed back quite a bit from initial release dates. And a good many are scheduled for November or December release. It’s already November 29th, so it’s reasonable now to conclude those products are won’t be out until next month, meaning retailers cannot possibly have them on the shelves, meaning K-Line by Lionel has basically blown off the holiday train buying season (intentional or not).
http://www.kline.lionel.com/KbL_Products/shipping_schedule.cfm
Maybe this intentional as to not have these products running against the actual Lionel products. But then they might as well have not released the Volume One catalog, and waited until the Fall to issue any catalog at all since a good many of those products are not out yet.
It certainly gives me little reason to even believe that the Volume Two 2007 products, many of which are scheduled for March '08 release, will be ready at that time.
It’s also ironic since I think these two catalogs are the best represention, variety and overall selection of K-Line products in a number of years. And obviously aimed at either long time original K-Line buyers, traditionally-sized operators or budget conscious buyers, who the original MDK K-Line company forgot about… until it wa
Thanks for the tip and the information.
Hopefully these delays in shipping are just a by-product of the “K-Line By Lionel” intergration.
It is interesting to note that K-Line By Lionel has brought back the S-2 Switcher. This is one of the former Marx Molds (they called it an S-2), and it had not been made by K-Line since the mid-90’s.
I don’t ever get to York so it was good to hear about Nick Ladd’s commnets. Nick is a good man and I think of him whenever I see my Lionel John Wanamaker Boxcar from 1982 (He was a VP at that time for Wanamaker’s), and my K-Line Wanamaker Boxcars from 1994 when Nick worked with Wanamakers to set up a Christmas Time K-Line Super Store at the Wanamaker Flagship in Center City Philly.
This K-Line Super Store was supposed to be a annual feature at Wanamakers, and the John Wanamaker Streamliner Passenger Set was due for 1995. In 1995 the Wanamaker stores were sold to the May Company, who in turn made them part of Hecht’s, and the K-Line contracts were terminated.
Ken
PS The prototype of the John Wanamaker Express is pictured on page 105 of the “K-Line Collectors Guide, Volume 1”.