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Kadee Micro-Trains MTL 39020 Railbox 50' Boxcar 14708

Kadee Micro-Trains MTL 39020 Railbox 50' Boxcar 14708

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KADEE 23231 BURLINGTON NORTHERN N SCALE 40' BOXCAR

KADEE 23231 BURLINGTON NORTHERN N SCALE 40' BOXCAR

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HUGE KADEE MICRO TRAINS PARTS LOT N SCALE ALL 1980s NOS

HUGE KADEE MICRO TRAINS PARTS LOT N SCALE ALL 1980s NOS

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Kadee N Scale 55102 CLINCHFIELD 5 Pack Hoppers NIB

Kadee N Scale 55102 CLINCHFIELD 5 Pack Hoppers NIB

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Kadee MT N 47062 PACIFIC FRUIT EXPRESS Reefer 19688 NIB

Kadee MT N 47062 PACIFIC FRUIT EXPRESS Reefer 19688 NIB

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Kadee MT N 20830 (Pk 20832) NEW HAVEN Boxcar 31920 NIB

Kadee MT N 20830 (Pk 20832) NEW HAVEN Boxcar 31920 NIB

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Kadee MT N 20830 (Pk 20832) NEW HAVEN Boxcar 32495 NIB

Kadee MT N 20830 (Pk 20832) NEW HAVEN Boxcar 32495 NIB

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Kadee MT N 24090 (24339) CB&Q"Burlington" Box 39244 NIB

Kadee MT N 24090 (24339) CB&Q"Burlington" Box 39244 NIB

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Kadee MT BLUE LABEL N 24080 LNAC Boxcar 144 NIB

Kadee MT BLUE LABEL N 24080 LNAC Boxcar 144 NIB

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Kadee MT N 38000 Bicen NEW HAMPSHIRE Boxcar 1776 NIB

Kadee MT N 38000 Bicen NEW HAMPSHIRE Boxcar 1776 NIB

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Kadee MT N 38010 Bicenten MASSACHUSETTS Boxcar 149 NIB

Kadee MT N 38010 Bicenten MASSACHUSETTS Boxcar 149 NIB

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Kadee MT N 38020 Bicenten CONNECTICUT Boxcar 40509 NIB

Kadee MT N 38020 Bicenten CONNECTICUT Boxcar 40509 NIB

 $67.20 18h 52m
Kadee MT N 25012 (25010) RAILBOX Boxcar 17834 NIB

Kadee MT N 25012 (25010) RAILBOX Boxcar 17834 NIB

 $46.00 18h 58m
Kadee MT N 25012 (25010) RAILBOX Boxcar 17792 NIB

Kadee MT N 25012 (25010) RAILBOX Boxcar 17792 NIB

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Kadee MT N 25012 (25010) RAILBOX Boxcar 17771 NIB

Kadee MT N 25012 (25010) RAILBOX Boxcar 17771 NIB

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Kadee MT N 49270 NORTH WESTERN Reefer 15378 KPT NIB

Kadee MT N 49270 NORTH WESTERN Reefer 15378 KPT NIB

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Kadee MT N 49270 NORTH WESTERN Reefer 15004 KPT NIB

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Kadee MT N 49270 NORTH WESTERN Reefer 15130 KPT NIB

Kadee MT N 49270 NORTH WESTERN Reefer 15130 KPT NIB

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Model Power N Scale Building (Freight Station) [1576]

Model Power N Scale Building (Freight Station) [1576]

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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.