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KATO (HO SCALE) 35-6023 CHICAGO RTA 4 WINDOW COACH

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Liquid Bearings, ABSOLUTE BEST Kato train oil, READ!!!!

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Kato Model Railroad 2004 HO &  1999 Unitrack Catalogs

Kato Model Railroad 2004 HO & 1999 Unitrack Catalogs

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HO ATLAS KATO TRUCKS UNDECORATED GP-38 POWERED DIESEL

HO ATLAS KATO TRUCKS UNDECORATED GP-38 POWERED DIESEL

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HO ATLAS KATO TRUCKS RIO GRANDE #5100 GP-7 DIESEL

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KATO BNSF HO AC4400CW ASSEMBLED w SAFETY STRIPES

KATO BNSF HO AC4400CW ASSEMBLED w SAFETY STRIPES

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KATO HO SCALE 37-2713 UP EMD SD40-2 DIESEL LOCOMOTIVE

KATO HO SCALE 37-2713 UP EMD SD40-2 DIESEL LOCOMOTIVE

6 $40.90 16h 27m
Ho scale Lot Engines, cars, details

Ho scale Lot Engines, cars, details

11 $103.51 16h 37m
205 Coupler Height Gauge HO

205 Coupler Height Gauge HO

$3.43 18h 31m
WP GP35

WP GP35

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Kato HO Corrugated Business Car UP Sunset Used

Kato HO Corrugated Business Car UP Sunset Used

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Kato Corrugated Business Car UP Cheyenne Used HO

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HO SCALE KATO PAINTED SEATED ENGINE CREW FIGURES -

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KATO #3103  World's Greatest Hobby Track Pack  HO-SCALE

KATO #3103 World's Greatest Hobby Track Pack HO-SCALE

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DMIR Missabe Train Set 2 SD45T-2 SD38-2 & 16 Ore Cars!!

DMIR Missabe Train Set 2 SD45T-2 SD38-2 & 16 Ore Cars!!

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HO Kato RS4 5 Milwaukee Road

HO Kato RS4 5 Milwaukee Road

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HO Kato RS Burlington Northern body

HO Kato RS Burlington Northern body

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Kato HO EMD GP35 Erie Lackawanna #2558 Pwd Locomotive

Kato HO EMD GP35 Erie Lackawanna #2558 Pwd Locomotive

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Kato HO Alco RS-2 Santa Fe 2099 Zebra Stripes Kadees

Kato HO Alco RS-2 Santa Fe 2099 Zebra Stripes Kadees

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Kato Adapter Cord for HO & N Unitrack 24-843

Kato Adapter Cord for HO & N Unitrack 24-843

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  • 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.