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GE C30-7 4 Window SCL Locomotive New Paragon DCC Sound

GE C30-7 4 Window SCL Locomotive New Paragon DCC Sound

7 $127.50 11h 5m
Liquid Bearings,  SUPERIOR train oil,  Broadway Limited!!

Liquid Bearings, SUPERIOR train oil, Broadway Limited!!

$5.99 20h
BROADWAY LIMITIED IMPORTS BLUELINE BN SD40-2 NEW SOUND

BROADWAY LIMITIED IMPORTS BLUELINE BN SD40-2 NEW SOUND

- $137.00 23h 48m
BROADWAY LIMITED  IMPORTS   BLUELINE B.N. SD7 NEW SOUND

BROADWAY LIMITED IMPORTS BLUELINE B.N. SD7 NEW SOUND

- $127.00 23h 50m
HO Broadway Limited E7A C&NW Railway #5008A DCC Sound

HO Broadway Limited E7A C&NW Railway #5008A DCC Sound

2 $142.50 1d 4m
1287 Broadway Limited Steam L-4b Mohawk 4-8-2 NYC #3149

1287 Broadway Limited Steam L-4b Mohawk 4-8-2 NYC #3149

- $325.00 1d 9h 5m
BLI 5240 BlueLine EMD E7A B SET,  NYC #4012 #4111,  NICE

BLI 5240 BlueLine EMD E7A B SET, NYC #4012 #4111, NICE

8 $102.50 1d 12h 11m
BLI Powerhouse Series NYC P&LE Mikado w DCC & Sound MIB

BLI Powerhouse Series NYC P&LE Mikado w DCC & Sound MIB

$249.95 1d 14h 55m
2- BLI Pennsylvania Stock Cars (Cattle),  metal wheels

2- BLI Pennsylvania Stock Cars (Cattle), metal wheels

2 $15.50 1d 15h 13m
BlueLine DC Master Analog Control Module

BlueLine DC Master Analog Control Module

8 $25.99 1d 15h 50m
HO PCM   Broadway Limited Reading T-1 4-8-4 #2102 SOUND

HO PCM Broadway Limited Reading T-1 4-8-4 #2102 SOUND

$445.50 1d 16h 12m
HO PCM   Broadway Limited Reading T-1 4-8-4 #2124 SOUND

HO PCM Broadway Limited Reading T-1 4-8-4 #2124 SOUND

$445.50 1d 16h 12m
BLI Paragon2 N&W Y6b 2-8-8-2 w DCC,  Sound & Smoke #2192

BLI Paragon2 N&W Y6b 2-8-8-2 w DCC, Sound & Smoke #2192

$399.98 1d 21h 2m
N SCALE Proto EMD GP38-2 ATSF "Warbonnet" #3570

N SCALE Proto EMD GP38-2 ATSF "Warbonnet" #3570

- $65.00 1d 21h 38m
Broadway BLI Paragon Norfolk & Western N&W J 4-8-4

Broadway BLI Paragon Norfolk & Western N&W J 4-8-4

10 $102.50 1d 21h 58m
Broadway Limited HO 2-10-4 undecorated,  QSI sound,  DCC

Broadway Limited HO 2-10-4 undecorated, QSI sound, DCC

7 $152.50 2d 9h 44m
Broadway Limited Track Inspection car Maint. of Way

Broadway Limited Track Inspection car Maint. of Way

$45.95 2d 10h 59m
Broadway Limited #1447 Express Reefer #760 HO Scale

Broadway Limited #1447 Express Reefer #760 HO Scale

4 $7.50 2d 13h 56m
BroadwayLTD Paragon2 SD-40-2 High Hood N&W Sound DCC DC

BroadwayLTD Paragon2 SD-40-2 High Hood N&W Sound DCC DC

3 $177.50 2d 14h 28m
BroadwayLTD Paragon 2 SD-40-2 HighHood NS. Sound DCC DC

BroadwayLTD Paragon 2 SD-40-2 HighHood NS. Sound DCC DC

1 $159.99 2d 14h 35m

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.