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INTRMTN N "AGP" #96359 ACF 4650 CU FT 3-BAY HOPPER

INTRMTN N "AGP" #96359 ACF 4650 CU FT 3-BAY HOPPER

 1 $17.66 11h 9m
PWRS N "UNION PACIFIC MYSTERY CAR" #744444 PS2 4750 HPR

PWRS N "UNION PACIFIC MYSTERY CAR" #744444 PS2 4750 HPR

 - $35.00 11h 57m
INTRMTN N ALBERTA TAKE A BREAK RAYMOND #628506 CYL HPR

INTRMTN N ALBERTA TAKE A BREAK RAYMOND #628506 CYL HPR

 3 $30.99 17h 35m
INTRMTN N STERLING SALT 3-BAY HOPR- CAR NO ACFX 49114

INTRMTN N STERLING SALT 3-BAY HOPR- CAR NO ACFX 49114

 - $17.66 17h 36m
INTRMTN N TH&B TORONTO HAMILTON BUFFALO COV HOPR #1546

INTRMTN N TH&B TORONTO HAMILTON BUFFALO COV HOPR #1546

 1 $17.66 17h 40m
IMRC 60512-05 R-40-23 STL-SD ICE BUNKER P.F.E. 917 Kit

IMRC 60512-05 R-40-23 STL-SD ICE BUNKER P.F.E. 917 Kit

 3 $3.88 18h 9m
IMRC 60501-01 S.P. U.P. R-40-23 SS ICE BUNKER PFE 47229

IMRC 60501-01 S.P. U.P. R-40-23 SS ICE BUNKER PFE 47229

 3 $3.88 18h 14m
INTRMTN N CANADIAN NATIONAL #377971 ENVIR.MODE CYLND HP

INTRMTN N CANADIAN NATIONAL #377971 ENVIR.MODE CYLND HP

 1 $17.66 18h 35m
INTRMTN PWRS N CNWX CANIDIAN WHEAT BOARD #100268 HOPR

INTRMTN PWRS N CNWX CANIDIAN WHEAT BOARD #100268 HOPR

 4 $30.99 18h 38m
Intermountain-CNW Centerflow Hopper--N Scale

Intermountain-CNW Centerflow Hopper--N Scale

6 $12.01 20h 54m
NEW InterMountain N sc COTTON BELT ACF 3 Bay Hopper

NEW InterMountain N sc COTTON BELT ACF 3 Bay Hopper

 - $14.99 21h 33m
N SCALE INTERMOUNTAIN HOPPER BN 65337-06 MICRO-TRAINS

N SCALE INTERMOUNTAIN HOPPER BN 65337-06 MICRO-TRAINS

 6 $23.00 22h 41m
N SCALE INTERMOUNTAIN PWRS COVERED HOPPER BN 1018C

N SCALE INTERMOUNTAIN PWRS COVERED HOPPER BN 1018C

 5 $4.49 22h 42m
N SCALE INTERMOUNTAIN COVERED HOPPER CARGILL 65376-03

N SCALE INTERMOUNTAIN COVERED HOPPER CARGILL 65376-03

 9 $18.27 22h 46m
N SCALE INTERMOUNTAIN HOPPER IC 65383-01 ACCUMATES

N SCALE INTERMOUNTAIN HOPPER IC 65383-01 ACCUMATES

 2 $5.50 22h 50m
INTRMTN PWRS N CAN. PACIFIC 40' BOXCAR SET 4of4 1070-3D

INTRMTN PWRS N CAN. PACIFIC 40' BOXCAR SET 4of4 1070-3D

 - $67.50 22h 51m
N SCALE INTERMOUNTAIN CENTERFLOW CNW C&NW 1056A

N SCALE INTERMOUNTAIN CENTERFLOW CNW C&NW 1056A

 3 $4.25 22h 53m
N SCALE INTERMOUNTAIN PWRS COVERED HOPPER BN 1018A

N SCALE INTERMOUNTAIN PWRS COVERED HOPPER BN 1018A

 4 $4.24 22h 53m
N SCALE INTERMOUNTAIN PWRS CENTERFLOW SOO 1075B

N SCALE INTERMOUNTAIN PWRS CENTERFLOW SOO 1075B

 3 $8.50 22h 57m
N SCALE INTERMOUNTAIN COVERED HOPPER NS 65310-04 MTL

N SCALE INTERMOUNTAIN COVERED HOPPER NS 65310-04 MTL

 3 $4.24 22h 59m

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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.