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N SCALE 0-6-0 STEAM SWITCHER (YOU DECIDE WHO MADE THIS)

N SCALE 0-6-0 STEAM SWITCHER (YOU DECIDE WHO MADE THIS)

4 $15.50 1h 7m
Arnold N-Scale 0-6-0 steam loco as is

Arnold N-Scale 0-6-0 steam loco as is

2 $9.99 6h 55m
ARNOLD RAPIDO N 0744 AUTO TRACK CONTROL 0744 X2 TRACK

ARNOLD RAPIDO N 0744 AUTO TRACK CONTROL 0744 X2 TRACK

- $5.99 8h 1m
4  heavyweight passenger cars

4 heavyweight passenger cars

2 $26.00 10h 34m
Arnold N scale Log carrier car with logs

Arnold N scale Log carrier car with logs

11 $34.00 12h 58m
Arnold N Scale 2-6-0 Locomotive with Tender

Arnold N Scale 2-6-0 Locomotive with Tender

10 $20.95 13h 18m
Arnold N scale tank and flat car mint in box

Arnold N scale tank and flat car mint in box

4 $12.05 13h 20m
ARNOLD RAPIDO N SCALE 0448 PAIRED SIDE TIPPER WAGONS

ARNOLD RAPIDO N SCALE 0448 PAIRED SIDE TIPPER WAGONS

1 $7.99 14h 5m
Arnold Rapido N Gauge  Open Hopper N & W 52364 vintage

Arnold Rapido N Gauge Open Hopper N & W 52364 vintage

- $9.49 14h 16m
Arnold Rapido N Gauge Flat Car Western Maryland Vintage

Arnold Rapido N Gauge Flat Car Western Maryland Vintage

- $9.79 14h 18m
Arnold PRR 63' Shorty Passenger Cars Lot of 8 LikeNew

Arnold PRR 63' Shorty Passenger Cars Lot of 8 LikeNew

1 $59.99 16h 53m
Arnold 3851 Apfelpfeil Dome Coach. Super Nice. NR!

Arnold 3851 Apfelpfeil Dome Coach. Super Nice. NR!

- $12.99 18h 13m
Arnold Apfelpfeil Passenger Coach. Excellent. NR!

Arnold Apfelpfeil Passenger Coach. Excellent. NR!

2 $12.75 18h 15m
Arnold Apfelpfeil Passenger Coach. Nice. NR!

Arnold Apfelpfeil Passenger Coach. Nice. NR!

2 $13.55 18h 17m
ARNOLD , RAPIDO , Layout ,  N-Scale

ARNOLD , RAPIDO , Layout , N-Scale

1 $99.99 18h 23m
Arnold N Scale Flatcar: Trailer Train

Arnold N Scale Flatcar: Trailer Train

- $0.99 19h 20m
Arnold Rapido  Flat Car with Tank # 0497

Arnold Rapido Flat Car with Tank # 0497

1 $9.95 19h 36m
Arnold-Rivarossi N SW 1500 SP *CALF* rare

Arnold-Rivarossi N SW 1500 SP *CALF* rare

1 $35.00 1d 12h 10m
Arnold Alco S2 Diesel - B&O # 9077 - test run only

Arnold Alco S2 Diesel - B&O # 9077 - test run only

3 $26.05 1d 14h 42m
Arnold Alco S2 Diesel - D&RGW 107 - test run only

Arnold Alco S2 Diesel - D&RGW 107 - test run only

2 $21.25 1d 14h 54m

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.