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Plain White Styrene Sheets (5 sheets) .020-6"x12"

Plain White Styrene Sheets (5 sheets) .020-6"x12"

 $4.59 15m
200, Building Model Trains RR 1:75 Scale Colorful Figure

200, Building Model Trains RR 1:75 Scale Colorful Figure

 $18.00 22m
TDY17 10pcs Layout Model Train Palm Trees Scale G 17CM

TDY17 10pcs Layout Model Train Palm Trees Scale G 17CM

 - $7.51 59m
New in Box Bachmann Big Haulers Arm & Hammer G scale!!!

New in Box Bachmann Big Haulers Arm & Hammer G scale!!!

 4 $11.50 1h 25m
LGB #4063 Eight Wheel BOX CAR with guard shack & box

LGB #4063 Eight Wheel BOX CAR with guard shack & box

 6 $35.75 1h 38m
20x Building Model Trains 1:25 Scale Painted Figures G

20x Building Model Trains 1:25 Scale Painted Figures G

 $10.23 2h 4m
PECO MOTOR MOUNTING PLATES - G SCALE (NEW)

PECO MOTOR MOUNTING PLATES - G SCALE (NEW)

 - $8.23 2h 38m
2 NEW LGB 12010 EPL SWITCH DRIVE MACHINES - GERMANY

2 NEW LGB 12010 EPL SWITCH DRIVE MACHINES - GERMANY

 1 $55.99 3h 27m
USA G Scale Diesel NW-2 Santa Fe blue yellow

USA G Scale Diesel NW-2 Santa Fe blue yellow

 $230.00 3h 29m
NEW G ARISTO REA SANTE FE COMBINE - LGB USA

NEW G ARISTO REA SANTE FE COMBINE - LGB USA

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 $29.99
$35.99		 3h 30m
Bachmann G scale Big Haulers Balto & Ohio Flatcar #1525

Bachmann G scale Big Haulers Balto & Ohio Flatcar #1525

 6 $17.95 3h 49m
D16090 4pcs Scale Train Layout Set Model Trees G O 16cm

D16090 4pcs Scale Train Layout Set Model Trees G O 16cm

 1 $7.51 3h 59m
LGB 2096S ELECTRONIC OBB REIHE 2095 WITH BOX

LGB 2096S ELECTRONIC OBB REIHE 2095 WITH BOX

 32 $301.50 4h 36m
LGB 2080 S ELECTRONIC HARZ QUERBAHN 996001 WITH BOX

LGB 2080 S ELECTRONIC HARZ QUERBAHN 996001 WITH BOX

 28 $305.00 4h 40m
LGB 3081 PERSONENWAGEN MIT GEPACKABTEIL WITH BOX

LGB 3081 PERSONENWAGEN MIT GEPACKABTEIL WITH BOX

 8 $42.89 5h 17m
P30 20pcs Model Trains 1:30 Scale Painted Figures G

P30 20pcs Model Trains 1:30 Scale Painted Figures G

 - $7.51 5h 19m
LGB 3080 PERSONENWAGEN WITH OPERATING LANTERN WITH BOX

LGB 3080 PERSONENWAGEN WITH OPERATING LANTERN WITH BOX

 9 $52.11 5h 22m
LGB G SCALE FLAT CAR WITH CABLES

LGB G SCALE FLAT CAR WITH CABLES

 $74.39 5h 22m
LGB G 32805 CAR NEW IN BOX

LGB G 32805 CAR NEW IN BOX

$80.00 5h 29m
P25 12pcs Model Trains 1:25 Scale Painted Figures LGB G

P25 12pcs Model Trains 1:25 Scale Painted Figures LGB G

 - $7.51 5h 29m

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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.