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This article refers to a model railway company. For other meanings, see
K-line .
K-Line Electric Trains is a brand name of O gauge and S gauge model
railway locomotives, rolling stock, and buildings. Formerly the brand name
under which Chapel Hill, North Carolina-based MDK Inc., based in Chapel
Hill, North Carolina sold its products, K-Line is now owned by Sanda Kan, a
Chinese toy manufacturer that formerly acted as K-Line's subcontractor.
Sanda Kan has licensed the use of the K-Line brand and intellectual
property to Lionel.
MDK was founded in 1975 by Maury D. Klein. Like competitor MTH Electric
Trains, MDK was a large Lionel dealer, and its mail-order ads appeared in
magazines such as Model Railroader in the late 1970s. MDK first used the
K-Line name on a line of aftermarket Lionel-compatible tubular track as
well as a copy of the A.C. Gilbert American Flyer line of two-rail S-Gauge
track which Maur
