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Conrail Evans Coil Cars 3 Pack Red Caboose N

Conrail Evans Coil Cars 3 Pack Red Caboose N

3 $25.45 23h 23m
N Red Caboose Rio Grande Flat Cars #21017 & 21096

N Red Caboose Rio Grande Flat Cars #21017 & 21096

 - $9.95 1d 22h 18m
RED CABOOSE, THE ROCK COIL CARS NSCALE

RED CABOOSE, THE ROCK COIL CARS NSCALE

 $30.00 2d 13h 19m
Red Caboose- N- ADN 4733 Thrall Box Car in Case

Red Caboose- N- ADN 4733 Thrall Box Car in Case

3 $7.49 2d 15h 13m
Red Caboose- N-Brooks Scanlon Thrall Box Car in Case

Red Caboose- N-Brooks Scanlon Thrall Box Car in Case

3 $7.49 2d 15h 18m
Red Caboose- N-Weyerhaeuser Thrall Box Car in Case

Red Caboose- N-Weyerhaeuser Thrall Box Car in Case

7 $10.50 2d 15h 23m
N Red Caboose C & NW Flat Cars #41704 &41710

N Red Caboose C & NW Flat Cars #41704 &41710

 - $9.95 2d 22h 18m
N Red Caboose Union Pacific Flat Cars #55328 & 55307

N Red Caboose Union Pacific Flat Cars #55328 & 55307

 - $9.95 2d 22h 18m
N PRECISION MASTER 1512 HOPPER ROCK ISLAND #ROCK 801368

N PRECISION MASTER 1512 HOPPER ROCK ISLAND #ROCK 801368

 - $2.99 4d 11h 31m
Six N-scale 42'10" flat cars D&RGW by Red Caboose

Six N-scale 42'10" flat cars D&RGW by Red Caboose

 - $19.95 4d 15h 13m
RC IMRC 25214-1=BNSF435851 PS 3 BAY 4700CF COV HOPPER

RC IMRC 25214-1=BNSF435851 PS 3 BAY 4700CF COV HOPPER

 - $15.00 4d 16h 19m
RC IMRC 25214-2=BNSF435856 PS 3 BAY 4700CF COV HOPPER

RC IMRC 25214-2=BNSF435856 PS 3 BAY 4700CF COV HOPPER

 - $15.00 4d 16h 21m
RC IMRC 25404-6=BNSF433167 PS-2cd 4740CF COV HOPPER

RC IMRC 25404-6=BNSF433167 PS-2cd 4740CF COV HOPPER

 - $15.00 4d 16h 25m
RC IMRC 25404-7=BNSF433207 PS-2cd 4740CF COV HOPPER

RC IMRC 25404-7=BNSF433207 PS-2cd 4740CF COV HOPPER

 - $15.00 4d 16h 27m
RC IMRC 25650-23=BNSF459512 PS-2cd 4750CF COV HOPPER

RC IMRC 25650-23=BNSF459512 PS-2cd 4750CF COV HOPPER

 - $15.00 4d 16h 45m
RC 17201-14=BNSF781681 PC&F 62' INSULATED BOX CAR

RC 17201-14=BNSF781681 PC&F 62' INSULATED BOX CAR

 1 $14.00 4d 16h 50m
RC IM 17691-1=BNSF 534010 100 TON COIL CAR+SWOOSH

RC IM 17691-1=BNSF 534010 100 TON COIL CAR+SWOOSH

 - $16.00 4d 17h
N Scale Train Red Caboose 62' Beer Car NEW

N Scale Train Red Caboose 62' Beer Car NEW

 - $9.99 4d 23h 7m
Red Caboose- DME Covered Hopper --N Scale

Red Caboose- DME Covered Hopper --N Scale

- $0.99 4d 23h 17m
Three Red Caboose COIL Cars ILLINOIS CENTRAL & SOUTHERN

Three Red Caboose COIL Cars ILLINOIS CENTRAL & SOUTHERN

 3 $12.09 5d 23h 45m

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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.