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(7) NEW HO Train cars,  plus 2 incomplete,  some kits

(7) NEW HO Train cars, plus 2 incomplete, some kits

- $25.00 1d 12h 21m
Reefer Pacific Fruit Express

Reefer Pacific Fruit Express

- $5.00 1d 17h 16m
RED CABOOSE SP UP ICE SERVICE REEFER KIT NIB

RED CABOOSE SP UP ICE SERVICE REEFER KIT NIB

4 $26.00 1d 18h 7m
RED CABOOSE SWIFT MEAT REEFER KIT NIB

RED CABOOSE SWIFT MEAT REEFER KIT NIB

3 $13.06 1d 18h 7m
HO Scale Train Red Caboose 1937 AAR 40' Boxcar NH OOP

HO Scale Train Red Caboose 1937 AAR 40' Boxcar NH OOP

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1d 19h 4m
HO Scale Train Red Caboose 1937 AAR 40' Boxcar MON OOP

HO Scale Train Red Caboose 1937 AAR 40' Boxcar MON OOP

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Red Caboose Flat Car HO Texas Pacific 5280 Model Kit

Red Caboose Flat Car HO Texas Pacific 5280 Model Kit

1 $5.99 1d 20h 4m
Red Caboose Flat Car HO St Louis SW 81571 Model Kit

Red Caboose Flat Car HO St Louis SW 81571 Model Kit

- $5.99 1d 20h 4m
Red Caboose Flat Car HO Western Pacific 2894 Model Kit

Red Caboose Flat Car HO Western Pacific 2894 Model Kit

- $5.99 1d 20h 4m
Red Caboose Flat Car HO Texas & Pacific 5272 Model Kit

Red Caboose Flat Car HO Texas & Pacific 5272 Model Kit

1 $5.99 1d 20h 4m
Red Caboose Flat Car HO Western Pacific 2901 Model Kit

Red Caboose Flat Car HO Western Pacific 2901 Model Kit

- $5.99 1d 20h 4m
Red Caboose Flat Car HO Texas & Pacific 5298 Model Kit

Red Caboose Flat Car HO Texas & Pacific 5298 Model Kit

2 $7.50 1d 20h 4m
Red Caboose Flat Car HO St Louis SW 81522 Model Kit

Red Caboose Flat Car HO St Louis SW 81522 Model Kit

- $5.99 1d 20h 4m
Red Caboose Flat Car HO Western Pacific 2858 Model Kit

Red Caboose Flat Car HO Western Pacific 2858 Model Kit

- $5.99 1d 20h 4m
Red Caboose Flat Car HO Central Georgia 11105 Model Kit

Red Caboose Flat Car HO Central Georgia 11105 Model Kit

- $5.99 1d 20h 4m
Red Caboose Flat Car HO St Louis SW 81451 Model Kit

Red Caboose Flat Car HO St Louis SW 81451 Model Kit

- $5.99 1d 20h 4m
Red Caboose HO 32532 Coil Car GM&O 75029 New

Red Caboose HO 32532 Coil Car GM&O 75029 New

6 $10.50 1d 20h 7m
HO Scale Train Red Caboose 1937 AAR 40' SD Boxcar OOP

HO Scale Train Red Caboose 1937 AAR 40' SD Boxcar OOP

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HO Scale Train Red Caboose 1937 AAR 40' SD Boxcar OOP

HO Scale Train Red Caboose 1937 AAR 40' SD Boxcar OOP

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HO Scale Train Red Caboose Sgl Dome Tank Car Frisco OOP

HO Scale Train Red Caboose Sgl Dome Tank Car Frisco OOP

1 $19.99 1d 20h 44m

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.