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CON-COR HO 0002-009956 ASST WORKERS & MILITARY

CON-COR HO 0002-009956 ASST WORKERS & MILITARY

 $9.00 15m
CON-COR HO 0002-009952 TOWNSPEOPLE RAILWAY WORKERS SET1

CON-COR HO 0002-009952 TOWNSPEOPLE RAILWAY WORKERS SET1

 $9.00 17m
CON-COR HO 0002-009952 TOWNSPEOPLE RAILWAY WORKERS SET1

CON-COR HO 0002-009952 TOWNSPEOPLE RAILWAY WORKERS SET1

 $9.00 18m
CON-COR HO 0002-009952A TOWNSPEOPLE RAILWAY WORKERS

CON-COR HO 0002-009952A TOWNSPEOPLE RAILWAY WORKERS

 $9.00 20m
CON-COR HO 0002-009952A TOWNSPEOPLE RAILWAY WORKERS

CON-COR HO 0002-009952A TOWNSPEOPLE RAILWAY WORKERS

 $9.00 21m
CON-COR HO 0002-009952A TOWNSPEOPLE RAILWAY WORKERS

CON-COR HO 0002-009952A TOWNSPEOPLE RAILWAY WORKERS

 $9.00 23m
CON-COR HO 0002-009952A TOWNSPEOPLE RAILWAY WORKERS

CON-COR HO 0002-009952A TOWNSPEOPLE RAILWAY WORKERS

 $9.00 25m
CON-COR HO 0002-009952A TOWNSPEOPLE RAILWAY WORKERS

CON-COR HO 0002-009952A TOWNSPEOPLE RAILWAY WORKERS

 $9.00 26m
2 HO Con-Cor Royal American CIRCUS TRAIN cars, 21 & 14

2 HO Con-Cor Royal American CIRCUS TRAIN cars, 21 & 14

3 $4.15 27m
CON-COR HO 0002-009952A TOWNSPEOPLE RAILWAY WORKERS

CON-COR HO 0002-009952A TOWNSPEOPLE RAILWAY WORKERS

 $9.00 29m
Con-Cor HO kit Amtrak Superliner Coach 801

Con-Cor HO kit Amtrak Superliner Coach 801

 5 $7.74 1h 32m
Con-Cor Amtrak 85' Superliner Coach Baggage Car NIB

Con-Cor Amtrak 85' Superliner Coach Baggage Car NIB

1 $9.99 8h 9m
Con-Cor Amtrak 85' Superliner Sleeping Car NIB ConCor

Con-Cor Amtrak 85' Superliner Sleeping Car NIB ConCor

 2 $10.49 8h 11m
Con-Cor Amtrak 85' Superliner Dining Car NIB ConCor

Con-Cor Amtrak 85' Superliner Dining Car NIB ConCor

 2 $10.99 8h 14m
Con-Cor passenger car bodies(2) unmarked dual level

Con-Cor passenger car bodies(2) unmarked dual level

 1 $0.99 10h 42m
CON-COR GP38-2 HO VINTAGE SOO LINE

CON-COR GP38-2 HO VINTAGE SOO LINE

 1 $9.99 19h 27m
HO D&RGW Con-Cor 40ft trailer

HO D&RGW Con-Cor 40ft trailer

 1 $0.99 19h 50m
Con-Cor Cambria City Fuel Rack HO Hobby Kit New Sealed

Con-Cor Cambria City Fuel Rack HO Hobby Kit New Sealed

 - $5.99 20h 24m
Concur-HO-Pair PRR Passenger Cars Observation & Coach

Concur-HO-Pair PRR Passenger Cars Observation & Coach

 1 $7.99 22h 42m
Con-Cor -HO-Scale-85' AMTRAK Slumber Coach

Con-Cor -HO-Scale-85' AMTRAK Slumber Coach

- $6.99 23h 2m

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.