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Southern Pacific 3-car Daylight pass. cars(N scale)

Southern Pacific 3-car Daylight pass. cars(N scale)

2 $29.00 3h 15m
BEST plastic-safe synthetic oil for Arnold, READ THIS!!

BEST plastic-safe synthetic oil for Arnold, READ THIS!!

 $5.99 8h 38m
~VISTA DOME CAR~0385~WESTERN GERMANY~ARNOLD RAPIDO~

~VISTA DOME CAR~0385~WESTERN GERMANY~ARNOLD RAPIDO~

 - $59.95 15h 32m
Southern Pacific 3-car Daylight madison cars(N scale)

Southern Pacific 3-car Daylight madison cars(N scale)

2 $31.00 17h 4m
Retired ~ VIADUCT BRIDGE ~ Arnold Rapido N Scale Kit

Retired ~ VIADUCT BRIDGE ~ Arnold Rapido N Scale Kit

 8 $18.27 17h 54m
Retired ~ 13" TRUSS BRIDGE by Arnold Rapido ~ N Scale

Retired ~ 13" TRUSS BRIDGE by Arnold Rapido ~ N Scale

 3 $6.19 18h 23m
Kato N scale, USRA 2-8-2 H steam loco, part# 126-0208

Kato N scale, USRA 2-8-2 H steam loco, part# 126-0208

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$91.00		 18h 32m
Orient-Express: Hornby Arnold HN4022 CIWL Train 4pc set

Orient-Express: Hornby Arnold HN4022 CIWL Train 4pc set

 1 $149.00 18h 35m
N Scale ARNOLD 0-6-0 Steam locomotive # 896009

N Scale ARNOLD 0-6-0 Steam locomotive # 896009

 9 $40.75 20h 28m
Arnold Engine and Tender

Arnold Engine and Tender

 1 $10.00 20h 55m
Arnold Engine and Tender

Arnold Engine and Tender

 - $10.00 20h 57m
N Scale Railroad Train Arnold Radio Equipped Caboose

N Scale Railroad Train Arnold Radio Equipped Caboose

 $5.99 21h 35m
N scale ARNOLD locomotive NEW YORK CENTRAL black NIB

N scale ARNOLD locomotive NEW YORK CENTRAL black NIB

 - $49.99 1d 3h
ARNOLD N-SCALE RAILWAY EXPRESS AGENCY MECH REEFER

ARNOLD N-SCALE RAILWAY EXPRESS AGENCY MECH REEFER

 - $5.99 1d 3h 9m
ARNOLD+LIMA N SCALE TRAIN 6PC LOT LOCO HOPPERS SIGNAL++

ARNOLD+LIMA N SCALE TRAIN 6PC LOT LOCO HOPPERS SIGNAL++

 2 $11.57 1d 3h 58m
Arnold Santa Fe Locomotive and 2 cars

Arnold Santa Fe Locomotive and 2 cars

 - $9.99 1d 4h 10m
N Scale Flat Car w containers SoRail #0406S By:Arnold

N Scale Flat Car w containers SoRail #0406S By:Arnold

 3 $2.50 1d 4h 17m
Revell Rapido N-Gauge Catalog

Revell Rapido N-Gauge Catalog

 $6.00 1d 4h 46m
Arnold 2 Diesel Loco's Ko 4669 & Tm 747 Excellent

Arnold 2 Diesel Loco's Ko 4669 & Tm 747 Excellent

2 $41.99 1d 18h 26m
N SCALE TRAIN CAR LOT OF 2 ARNOLD CON-COR 40' BOX

N SCALE TRAIN CAR LOT OF 2 ARNOLD CON-COR 40' BOX

2 $4.00 2d 1h 49m

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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.