It sounds highly unlikely Lionel will stop making tubular track, but I suppose it could happen that Lionel per se could stop making tubular track, but have it still available under the K-Line brand. Seems to me some products have shifted from one to the other since Lionel bought K-Line.
Lionel no longer manufacturers under the K-Line name
There are probably many tons of tubular track in the marketplace thanks to decades of production by Lionel and others. If you can accumulate enough Super-O track to build a layout nearly 50 years after it was made, you will be able to make a tubular layout anything in the foreseeable future.
I meant tubular track which is the subject of the thread. Lionel still produces O and O27 tubular track in the US probably because the tool was very large and heavy and the demand for track in the US is so high it made financial sense to keep production here.
That may no longer be the case and they may be shifting all domestic track manufacturing over to China where FasTrack has always been produced.
No they don’t. And they have not for over ~15 years. Lionel has ZERO manufacturing facilities in the US.
Like Bob K. mentions; you can still find enough tubular track if all companies would quit making it today. It is unlikely that tubular track will ever stop being made, it is the main track used by most people in 3 rail trains.
Take a look at the new LIONEL Track and Power catalog on Monday.
Legacy Station has that catalog up already as a PDF.
The O-27 and O gauge tubular track has only 3 pages out of a 24 page catalog.
Andrew
Here it is, and it does say “Limited Items! Get Yours Today!”
I went to look at the new Lionel catalog and it has no prices in it! It did say limited supply of tubular track, but no direct mention of being discontinued!
At the top of each page it says “Limited Item! Get yours today!” this has always meant the company is doing away with this line.
Guess the profit margin isn’t there like there is for a $2,000.00 Big Boy (what is this, the 20th iteration of this engine?)