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BNSF 62ft. beer car, orig. box

BNSF 62ft. beer car, orig. box

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$8.00
$10.00
4h 9m
BNSF centerbeam car #563401, brown orig.box

BNSF centerbeam car #563401, brown orig.box

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$10.00
$15.00
4h 15m
ATHEARN CABOOSE SANTA FE TRAIN KIT 5367

ATHEARN CABOOSE SANTA FE TRAIN KIT 5367

- $9.99 16h 22m
ART # 782   57' MECHANICAL REEFER RED CABOOSE #8

ART # 782 57' MECHANICAL REEFER RED CABOOSE #8

$39.56 1d 23h 5m
ART # 774   57' MECHANICAL REEFER RED CABOOSE #5

ART # 774 57' MECHANICAL REEFER RED CABOOSE #5

$39.56 1d 23h 6m
4 HO freight car kits-Intermountain & Red Caboose

4 HO freight car kits-Intermountain & Red Caboose

- $14.99 2d 14h 56m
Tank car,  Red Caboose kit 3027-2 Anchor #2452

Tank car, Red Caboose kit 3027-2 Anchor #2452

1 $10.50 2d 19h 44m
Red Caboose Northwestern Pacific 46 47 S-40-5 Stock Car

Red Caboose Northwestern Pacific 46 47 S-40-5 Stock Car

1 $15.00 2d 23h 18m
2 Red Caboose DODX 40' flat cars 35096 and 35100

2 Red Caboose DODX 40' flat cars 35096 and 35100

5 $15.50 2d 23h 58m
STEWART KATO F-3 DRIVE (NO SHELL)

STEWART KATO F-3 DRIVE (NO SHELL)

- $39.95 3d 1h 26m
STEWART KATO F-3 DRIVE (NO SHELL)

STEWART KATO F-3 DRIVE (NO SHELL)

- $39.95 3d 1h 27m
Super Detailed rock Island 40' Boxcars HO NEW

Super Detailed rock Island 40' Boxcars HO NEW

3 $20.50 3d 2h 18m
Union Pacific Fruit Express R-70-15 mechanical reefer

Union Pacific Fruit Express R-70-15 mechanical reefer

- $34.95 3d 16h 30m
HO Scale Red Caboose

HO Scale Red Caboose

$1.99 4d 49m
Little Red Cabooose - 9125

Little Red Cabooose - 9125

$1.99 4d 1h 32m
RED CABOOSE HO RNP-51015 UNIMATE BCR 'T' MED CPLR X 2

RED CABOOSE HO RNP-51015 UNIMATE BCR 'T' MED CPLR X 2

- $3.99 5d 12m
RED CABOOSE HO RNP-51020 UNIMATE BLK 'T' LONG CPLRS X 2

RED CABOOSE HO RNP-51020 UNIMATE BLK 'T' LONG CPLRS X 2

- $3.99 5d 12m
RED CABOOSE HO RNP-51000 UNIMATE BLK 'T' SHORT CPLRS X2

RED CABOOSE HO RNP-51000 UNIMATE BLK 'T' SHORT CPLRS X2

- $3.99 5d 12m
RED CABOOSE HO RNP-51010 RNP-51020 RNP-51000 COUPLERS

RED CABOOSE HO RNP-51010 RNP-51020 RNP-51000 COUPLERS

- $3.99 5d 12m
Red Caboose Santa Fe 42' Flat Car - Choice 11#s

Red Caboose Santa Fe 42' Flat Car - Choice 11#s

5 $10.50 5d 39m

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.