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BOWSER D&H COVERED HOPPER

BOWSER D&H COVERED HOPPER

- $12.59 13h 27m
HO Trains Bowser Pennsylvania L1 Mikado 282 kit

HO Trains Bowser Pennsylvania L1 Mikado 282 kit

3 $63.95 17h 28m
HO Scale RoundHouse Caboose,  New Haven - "Trailiner"

HO Scale RoundHouse Caboose, New Haven - "Trailiner"

1 $20.00 18h 25m
New Haven GE U-25B Diesel,  Rd # 2525.  Bowser Exec Line

New Haven GE U-25B Diesel, Rd # 2525. Bowser Exec Line

- $165.00 18h 29m
BOWSER PENNSY  T-1  METAL KIT LOCOMOTIVE WITH TENDER HO

BOWSER PENNSY T-1 METAL KIT LOCOMOTIVE WITH TENDER HO

4 $69.00 18h 35m
Bowser PRR GS 40' Gondola #301122

Bowser PRR GS 40' Gondola #301122

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$9.95
$11.50
19h 22m
Bowser RTR PRR K11 40' Stock Car #130532

Bowser RTR PRR K11 40' Stock Car #130532

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$16.45
$18.25
19h 42m
BOWSER HO SCALE SEABOARD COAST LINE COAL HOPPER #163143

BOWSER HO SCALE SEABOARD COAST LINE COAL HOPPER #163143

$7.99 20h 12m
HO-BOWSER STEEL CABOOSE KIT READING - NEW

HO-BOWSER STEEL CABOOSE KIT READING - NEW

- $4.99 20h 42m
Bowser Executive Line GN U25b #2506,  DCC Ready

Bowser Executive Line GN U25b #2506, DCC Ready

- $79.95 21h 43m
HO SCALE BOWSER N5 CABOOSE LONG ISLAND RR

HO SCALE BOWSER N5 CABOOSE LONG ISLAND RR

$11.70 22h 25m
HO SCALE BOWSER ASSEMBLED PENNSY X-31 BOXCAR - NIB

HO SCALE BOWSER ASSEMBLED PENNSY X-31 BOXCAR - NIB

$18.00 23h 3m
TWO BOWSER ROADRAILERS SCHNEIDER TRUCKING

TWO BOWSER ROADRAILERS SCHNEIDER TRUCKING

6 $41.00 23h 7m
HO Scale 4-6-2 Pacific PRR K-4 Pacific Locomotive RARE!

HO Scale 4-6-2 Pacific PRR K-4 Pacific Locomotive RARE!

- $80.00 23h 29m
Santa Fe 53' Plate Wall Roadrailer 18 Cars.

Santa Fe 53' Plate Wall Roadrailer 18 Cars.

3 $142.50 1d 1h 10m
LOT OF BOWSER PARTS 1-020207 1-002605 1-256102 SCREWS +

LOT OF BOWSER PARTS 1-020207 1-002605 1-256102 SCREWS +

$4.00 1d 11h
HO Train-Bowser-H-21-4 Bay Hopper-Undecoratd-Lot 4 Kits

HO Train-Bowser-H-21-4 Bay Hopper-Undecoratd-Lot 4 Kits

1 $14.99 1d 11h 3m
LOT OF BOWSER PARTS HO 1-100321 1-000904 1-002627 +

LOT OF BOWSER PARTS HO 1-100321 1-000904 1-002627 +

$4.99 1d 11h 44m
Bowser F3 NYC Phasse 2 Early ABBA SET With Sound NIB

Bowser F3 NYC Phasse 2 Early ABBA SET With Sound NIB

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$200.00
$300.00
1d 12h 17m
HO BOWSER ELECTRICAL KIT & MONOGRAM TEND UP CHALLENGER

HO BOWSER ELECTRICAL KIT & MONOGRAM TEND UP CHALLENGER

1 $15.00 1d 17h 8m

Lionel news

  • Fascinating facts about the invention of
    Lionel Trains
    by Joshua Lionel Cowen in 1901.

    LIONEL TRAINS AT A GLANCE: Joshua Lionel Cowen was an inventive guy and had always been very interested in trains. In 1901, he fitted a small motor under a model of a railroad flatcar, powered by a battery on 30 inches of track and the Lionel electric train was born. The first Lionel train was designed to attract window-shopping New Yorkers using the power of animated display. Since its humble beginning Lionel has sold more than 50 million train sets and today produces more than 300 miles of track each year. Joshua Lionel Cowen was an inventive guy and had always been very interested in trains. When he was seven, he whittled a miniature locomotive from wood. It exploded, however, when he tried to fit it with a tiny steam engine. Joshua had never forgotten his childhood experiment. In 1901, he fitted a small motor under a model of a railroad flatcar, a battery and 30 inches of track and the Lionel electric train was born. Joshua  was born on Henry St. in Manhattan’s Lower East Side on August 25, 1877. He preferred playing ball, bicycling, hiking and tinkering with mechanical toys to formal education, and soon became fascinated with electricity, its transmission and its storage in batteries. Cowen did so well in school that in 1893 he entered the College of the City of New York. But, he could not adjust to the confines of a formal education. In short order he dropped out, returned, again dropped out, enrolled at Columbia University, and dropped out there to become an apprentice to Henner & Anderson, an early dry cell battery manufacturer. Then he took a job at the Acme Lamp Company in New York as a battery lamp assembler. During his spare time he liked experimenting, one of many mechanically inclined young men who liked to tinker with things. These jobs gave Cowen the experience he needed to launch Lionel. In 1899, he patented a device for igniting photographers’ flash powder by using dry cell batteries to heat a wire fuse. Cowen than parlayed this into a defense contract to equip 24,000 Navy mines with detonators. His ignorance of armament manufacture did not stop him. He used mercuric fulminate, a sensitive and powerful explosive (his supplier’s deliveryman told him, "The company said you should always keep a good deal around. It’s better to be dead than maimed"), and delivered the fuses to the Brooklyn Navy Yard on time by horse-drawn wagon at a gallop. In January 1900, he filed his second patent which improved on the his first design but again failed to give details. On September 5, 1900, Cowen and a colleague from Acme, Harry C. Grant, started a business in lower Manhattan called the Lionel Manufacturing Company, but they had nothing to manufacture. One hot day when Cowen was sitting in his office waiting for a cool breeze he got the idea of an electric fan. He quickly assembled and marketed the electric fan, but the weather soon cooled and so did public interest. Soon after, Cowen was walking through lower Manhattan when he stopped at a toy store window where he saw, among the toys, a push train. He then had the vision of it going around a circle of track without needing attention. This was the vision which started a legend.