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Athearn N RTR 50' SIECO Box Weathered, HN (2) #'s

Athearn N RTR 50' SIECO Box Weathered, HN (2) #'s

 - $17.98 2h 34m
Athearn N RTR 50' SIECO Box Weathered, NOPB (2) #'s

Athearn N RTR 50' SIECO Box Weathered, NOPB (2) #'s

 - $17.98 2h 41m
N Scale Athearn Sabine River Northern 50' Box Rd# 5233

N Scale Athearn Sabine River Northern 50' Box Rd# 5233

 - $5.99 4h 1m
N Scale Athearn Sabine River Northern 50' Box Rd# 5293

N Scale Athearn Sabine River Northern 50' Box Rd# 5293

 - $5.99 4h 3m
N Scale Athearn BC Rail 50' Plug Door Box Car Rd# 5421

N Scale Athearn BC Rail 50' Plug Door Box Car Rd# 5421

 2 $20.50 4h 6m
10 White 5mm Leds, Holders, Resistors for 18v Systems

10 White 5mm Leds, Holders, Resistors for 18v Systems

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 $8.99
$9.99		 7h 52m
N- Atlas custom TTX flat w Athearn 10266 fire truck NIB

N- Atlas custom TTX flat w Athearn 10266 fire truck NIB

 4 $3.25 8h 26m
N- Atlas custom B&O flat w Athearn 10268 fire truck NIB

N- Atlas custom B&O flat w Athearn 10268 fire truck NIB

 3 $5.50 8h 30m
LOT Athearn Trains SW 1500 Loco Powered Southern Pac

LOT Athearn Trains SW 1500 Loco Powered Southern Pac

 6 $20.50 8h 34m
N Scale Athearn Norfolk Southern

N Scale Athearn Norfolk Southern

 6 $32.09 10h 25m
N Scale Athearn Susquehanna #3

N Scale Athearn Susquehanna #3

 6 $28.00 10h 37m
10 White 5mm Leds, Holders, Resistors for 18v Systems

10 White 5mm Leds, Holders, Resistors for 18v Systems

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 $8.99
$9.99		 15h 3m
ATHEARN N SCALE JOHN DEERE 7820 TRACTOR 10187 NIP

ATHEARN N SCALE JOHN DEERE 7820 TRACTOR 10187 NIP

 1 $9.95 23h 30m
Athearn N-scale STEAM LOCOMOTIVE Boston Maine B&M

Athearn N-scale STEAM LOCOMOTIVE Boston Maine B&M

 $115.00 1d 1m
N scale )) Athearn N.A.C.C. Box Car #50638 D&RGW

N scale )) Athearn N.A.C.C. Box Car #50638 D&RGW

- $4.50 1d 23h 34m
Athearn N 16823 EMD F45 Montana Rail Link #393 + 2 Cars

Athearn N 16823 EMD F45 Montana Rail Link #393 + 2 Cars

 3 $27.50 2d 3m
N Athearn UNION PACIFIC 60' PS AUTO PARTS BOX CAR

N Athearn UNION PACIFIC 60' PS AUTO PARTS BOX CAR

 1 $6.99 2d 1h 23m
50ft Berwick Boxcar - Virginia Central

50ft Berwick Boxcar - Virginia Central

 1 $0.99 2d 2h 40m
E-2CJ Grumman U.S. Navy Plane 1 145 N SCALE?

E-2CJ Grumman U.S. Navy Plane 1 145 N SCALE?

 $11.65 2d 7h 33m
VINTAGE ATHEARN RAILWAY EXPRESS AGENCY 50' REEFER

VINTAGE ATHEARN RAILWAY EXPRESS AGENCY 50' REEFER

 - $8.99 2d 7h 39m

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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.