I just saw a thread at another forum that showed the new catalog cover for this line and it looks like the Kusan and Marx molds as well as K Line are going to add up to a new line of toy trains.
It will be interesting to see what happens with Aristo Craft trains.
Last I heard things were in legal holding or in the hands of attorneys. Hopefully something will happen as K-Line or Marx being re-produced may help keep prices down on the compitition.
Also Bachmann Industries is not saying a thing about what might happen, their statement is that they will let peolpe know when and if anything happens with K-Line or any other product of Sanda Kan.
Lee F.
Who owns the brand name rights for Marx and K-Line ?
Sanda Kan owns the rights to K-Line. I don’t know if they own all of the tooling that was used by K-Line, however.
Marx is a bit messier because you get into right for the overall Marx product line, not just the trains. A plastics company in Ohio owns the Marx rights (the Florida outfit apparently disappeared several years back), but they seem more interested in licensing repros of vintage products than producing them itself.
That looks like a Marx engine at the bottom but my aging eyes can’t confirm that. Could this be a similar situation where the molds belong to one party and the manufacturing done by arrangement by another? Time will tell. Marx didn’t make any GG1 and that one could be a former K Line, or simply new tooling…perhaps York will tell the tale properly. However I certainly welcome another more reasonably priced ( presumably) competitor.
It probably is the Marx loco (K-Line did re-work it in later years), indeed, MDK Inc. bought much of the original Marx postwar tooling in the 1980s - but I’m not sure how much was owned by K-Line and how much was owned by another corporate entity. The GG1 also looks like the K-Line model.
With names like Bang, Beep, Beef, Buddy, Bopper… I wonder what is next?
Burp?
be bop a lu bop perhaps?
With a name like that, it had better be a complete set!
Maybe the re-iisue of the Kusan military set in 3 rail, now that would be very cool.
I love the Alco FA with the ball turret on top!
That bottom diesel engine is the RMT Bang, which has been vaporware for 2-3 years now.
right from there website
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The full retail price on the switcher is “do-able” and I liked the look of the pre-production model …so it perked my interest in the remainder of the catalog. There are certainly enough road names to chose from.
So I wonder which of those “offerings” they’re actually shipping, and which are 2, 3 or 4 years behind schedule. liked their stuff, but it didn’t help that they jacked their prices a year or so ago.