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100 560 Ohm Resistors for 12v 5mm Leds FAST USA SHIP

100 560 Ohm Resistors for 12v 5mm Leds FAST USA SHIP

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2601 Walthers Built-Ups Steel Water Tank N Scale

2601 Walthers Built-Ups Steel Water Tank N Scale

 $25.99 11h 24m
NEWLY Built ~ APARTMENT BUILDING ~ OOP Pola ~ N Scale

NEWLY Built ~ APARTMENT BUILDING ~ OOP Pola ~ N Scale

 11 $15.49 12h 13m
NEWLY Detailed ~ RECRUITING OFFICE ~ N Scale NR

NEWLY Detailed ~ RECRUITING OFFICE ~ N Scale NR

 13 $33.99 12h 15m
NEW ~ DPM Kit: W's MERCANTILE ~ N Scale Penny Auction

NEW ~ DPM Kit: W's MERCANTILE ~ N Scale Penny Auction

 7 $10.00 12h 17m
NEW ~ DPM Kit: REED'S BOOKS ~ N Scale Penny Auction

NEW ~ DPM Kit: REED'S BOOKS ~ N Scale Penny Auction

 5 $14.38 12h 19m
Lighted ~ DOWNTOWN BANK ~ N Scale Penny Auction

Lighted ~ DOWNTOWN BANK ~ N Scale Penny Auction

 4 $10.49 12h 21m
NEWLY Built ~ HARDWARE STORE ~ N Scale Penny Auction

NEWLY Built ~ HARDWARE STORE ~ N Scale Penny Auction

 3 $2.26 12h 23m
FAST FOOD JOINT with FIGURES ~ N Scale Penny Auction

FAST FOOD JOINT with FIGURES ~ N Scale Penny Auction

 7 $8.49 12h 25m
SHELL GAS Station with FIGURE ~ N Scale Penny Auction

SHELL GAS Station with FIGURE ~ N Scale Penny Auction

 7 $8.50 12h 27m
NEWLY Detailed ~ FREIGHT Transfer STATION ~ N Scale NR

NEWLY Detailed ~ FREIGHT Transfer STATION ~ N Scale NR

 5 $15.50 12h 29m
INDUSTRIAL WAREHOUSE With LIGHTING & FIGURE ~ N Scale

INDUSTRIAL WAREHOUSE With LIGHTING & FIGURE ~ N Scale

 4 $6.38 12h 31m
Classic COAL TOWER with FIGURES ~ N Scale Penny Auction

Classic COAL TOWER with FIGURES ~ N Scale Penny Auction

 8 $4.75 12h 33m
NEWLY Built ~ WATER TOWER ~ OOP Faller ~ N Scale NR

NEWLY Built ~ WATER TOWER ~ OOP Faller ~ N Scale NR

 5 $6.50 12h 35m
WOODLAND SCENICS SHOTZ GUNS AND TACKLE KIT N SCALE

WOODLAND SCENICS SHOTZ GUNS AND TACKLE KIT N SCALE

 1 $8.99 12h 38m
WOODLAND SCENICS BANK AND TRUST CO. KIT N SCALE

WOODLAND SCENICS BANK AND TRUST CO. KIT N SCALE

1 $8.99 12h 39m
Classic 13" TRUSS BRIDGE ~ OOP Arnold ~ N Scale NR

Classic 13" TRUSS BRIDGE ~ OOP Arnold ~ N Scale NR

 7 $12.49 12h 41m
Weathered ~ DOUBLE TUNNEL PORTAL ~ OOP Pola ~ N Scale

Weathered ~ DOUBLE TUNNEL PORTAL ~ OOP Pola ~ N Scale

 4 $6.56 12h 45m
DPM BRUICE'S BAKERY KIT #50100 N SCALE

DPM BRUICE'S BAKERY KIT #50100 N SCALE

- $7.99 12h 46m
DPM CHAR'S SODA SHOPPE KIT N SCALE

DPM CHAR'S SODA SHOPPE KIT N SCALE

 1 $7.99 12h 47m

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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.