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LIFE LIKE TRAIN ALLIED CHEMICAL ACDX 68075 HO SCALE

LIFE LIKE TRAIN ALLIED CHEMICAL ACDX 68075 HO SCALE

- $0.99 16m
PROTO 2000 HO PS-2 COVERED HOPPER (MIDWEST GRAIN)# 7008

PROTO 2000 HO PS-2 COVERED HOPPER (MIDWEST GRAIN)# 7008

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HO Scale Model Train Display Case,  Kid-Safe  Door

HO Scale Model Train Display Case, Kid-Safe Door

$99.95 49m
Tichy Train USRA - ARAIII 10K GAL Tank Car HO Kit #4020

Tichy Train USRA - ARAIII 10K GAL Tank Car HO Kit #4020

$11.95 1h 11m
PROTO 2000 HO E7B (SEABOARD AIR LINE) # 3105, unpowered

PROTO 2000 HO E7B (SEABOARD AIR LINE) # 3105, unpowered

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1h 26m
PROTO 2000 HO E7B (SEABOARD AIR LINE) # 3107, unpowered

PROTO 2000 HO E7B (SEABOARD AIR LINE) # 3107, unpowered

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1h 29m
PROTO 2000 HO SD45 (SEABOARD SYSTEM)# 2002, DCC READY

PROTO 2000 HO SD45 (SEABOARD SYSTEM)# 2002, DCC READY

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$69.99
1h 37m
PROTO 2000 HO SD45 (SEABOARD SYSTEM)# 2007, DCC READY

PROTO 2000 HO SD45 (SEABOARD SYSTEM)# 2007, DCC READY

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1h 42m
PROTO 2000 HO SD45 (SEABOARD COASTLINE)# 2016, DCC READY

PROTO 2000 HO SD45 (SEABOARD COASTLINE)# 2016, DCC READY

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1h 44m
PROTO 2000 HO SD45 (SEABOARD COASTLINE)# 2021, DCC READY

PROTO 2000 HO SD45 (SEABOARD COASTLINE)# 2021, DCC READY

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1h 45m
PROTO 2000 HO SD50 (SEABOARD SYSTEM)# 8536, DCC READY

PROTO 2000 HO SD50 (SEABOARD SYSTEM)# 8536, DCC READY

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1h 46m
PROTO 2000 HO SD50 (SEABOARD SYSTEM)# 8599, DCC READY

PROTO 2000 HO SD50 (SEABOARD SYSTEM)# 8599, DCC READY

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1h 48m
Life Like Boxcar set Doritos-Tootsie Roll-Champion

Life Like Boxcar set Doritos-Tootsie Roll-Champion

- $8.99 2h 26m
PROTO#47725  EMD SD7 Powered - Standard DC

PROTO#47725 EMD SD7 Powered - Standard DC

$129.95 2h 54m
PROTO#47726  EMD SD7 Powered - Standard DC

PROTO#47726 EMD SD7 Powered - Standard DC

$129.95 2h 56m
Life-Like P2K  HO  GP30 Illinois Central Gulf ICG #2257

Life-Like P2K HO GP30 Illinois Central Gulf ICG #2257

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OPERATING RR Crossing w  Switchman LIGHTED BUILDING RTR

OPERATING RR Crossing w Switchman LIGHTED BUILDING RTR

- $7.99 3h 8m
LIFE LIKE HO BEER BREWERY CARS  6 PAK

LIFE LIKE HO BEER BREWERY CARS 6 PAK

- $19.99 3h 9m
LIFE LIKE HO SANTA FE 3500 ENGINE

LIFE LIKE HO SANTA FE 3500 ENGINE

- $16.99 3h 15m
HO B&O 4810 Chessie System Engine

HO B&O 4810 Chessie System Engine

- $12.99 3h 16m

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.