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Hi guys, some of you who were at the annual meeting may
remember me grumbling about Lionel cancelling the Superstreets turnouts. Well I
just found a article in OGR that states that Lionel is discontinuing all the
K-Line stuff. Basically it said that the China manufacturer, Sanda Kan, owns
the tooling for the K-Line stuff. Sanda Kan has been bought by another company
who owns the Williams by Bachman brand. So it looks like K-Line wasn’t owned by Lionel. Lionel
was just licensing the items for sale under the K-Line by Lionel brand. Since
the K-Line stuff is now owned and manufactured by a company who is a competitor
of Lionel’s, Lionel doesn’t want to buy from them anymore and is
thus discontinuing the K-Line by Lionel brand. It will be interesting to
see if anyone else picks up the K-Line stuff. Adrian |