My experience to date with K-Line has been my scale Mikado, which I bought about 1 year ago. I love this engine! The sound is incredible, even if it’s just generic railsounds steam, and it does start out pretty slowly, even without cruise control. And the level of detailing is awesome. I want to upgrade it to EOB one of these days. And I’m thinking of getting a scale Hudson, which came out at the same time.
I may get some of their rolling stock one of these days. Time will tell.
As far as I know, K-Line’s pretty good. But I only have a single data point to go by.
Tony
I have in the past bought K-line trains, some of which were scale passenger cars. They had some problems but I dealt with them. Many people I know would have called them junk for these problems. That quality of the past is more what I think people are referring to, not as much whether scale or non scale is junk. I suspect the newer stuff is better constructed and it just so happens that more of the newer stuff is scale as well. If the trucks were falling off of the bottom of the cars, and the wires were burning at the rollers as they did on my cars from the past, we’d be hearing about K-line junk today as well.