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DieCast Lt Blue City Bus Charter Tour Bus N Scale 1:160

DieCast Lt Blue City Bus Charter Tour Bus N Scale 1:160

 $5.95 44m
Delivery Truck N scale U.P.S. ~ custom finished ~ NEAT

Delivery Truck N scale U.P.S. ~ custom finished ~ NEAT

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 $12.49
$14.99		 46m
N scale Electrical Cabinets Trackside panel boxes train

N scale Electrical Cabinets Trackside panel boxes train

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 $11.69
$12.99		 47m
PACK OF 50 BUILDING SCENERY SET MODEL CAR N SCALE 1 150

PACK OF 50 BUILDING SCENERY SET MODEL CAR N SCALE 1 150

 - $0.99 51m
N SCALE TRAINS 4 PK MODEL RAILROAD CIGAR REEFER BOXCARS

N SCALE TRAINS 4 PK MODEL RAILROAD CIGAR REEFER BOXCARS

 $24.99 51m
Preiser 79150 N Scale Horses

Preiser 79150 N Scale Horses

 1 $3.99 58m
Lot of 10 Pine Tree Scale War Scene Model Train RR N Z

Lot of 10 Pine Tree Scale War Scene Model Train RR N Z

 - $0.88 1h 8m
50 Wholesale Tree Scale War Scene Train RR Model N Z

50 Wholesale Tree Scale War Scene Train RR Model N Z

 - $0.99 1h 19m
35 LOADS for Trucks, Railcars, loading docks N Scale

35 LOADS for Trucks, Railcars, loading docks N Scale

$10.00 1h 47m
NEW SWITCH MACHINES FOR TRACK N GAUGE 2 RIGHT 2 LEFT

NEW SWITCH MACHINES FOR TRACK N GAUGE 2 RIGHT 2 LEFT

 2 $12.50 1h 47m
100x Building Model Train 1:150 Scale Painted Figures N

100x Building Model Train 1:150 Scale Painted Figures N

 - $7.99 1h 49m
Classic Mini Metals IH R-190 Santa Fe Express Tractor

Classic Mini Metals IH R-190 Santa Fe Express Tractor

 4 $2.85 1h 54m
50x BUILDING TRAIN LAYOUT SET N SCALE 1 150 MODEL CAR

50x BUILDING TRAIN LAYOUT SET N SCALE 1 150 MODEL CAR

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 $0.99
$1.99		 1h 57m
Classic Mini Metals 78 Chevrolet Impala Taxi

Classic Mini Metals 78 Chevrolet Impala Taxi

 - $0.99 1h 58m
CLASIC METAL WORKS 50203 N GA, 1953 WHITE 3000 BOX TRUCK

CLASIC METAL WORKS 50203 N GA, 1953 WHITE 3000 BOX TRUCK

 - $9.00 2h 1m
25x Model RR Train Tree Railway Landscape Scale HO N Z

25x Model RR Train Tree Railway Landscape Scale HO N Z

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 $0.75
$1.75		 2h 2m
NEW ATLAS N TRAINMAN TRAIN SET #2105

NEW ATLAS N TRAINMAN TRAIN SET #2105

 $125.00 2h 19m
tOL55-20pcs Scale Train Layout Set Model Trees TT N Z

tOL55-20pcs Scale Train Layout Set Model Trees TT N Z

 - $0.99 2h 19m
N Scale Collectors Best Friend for Fine Detail work

N Scale Collectors Best Friend for Fine Detail work

 $18.95 2h 24m
INCREDIBLE _PAINTING _& _WEATHERING _TECHNIQUES

INCREDIBLE _PAINTING _& _WEATHERING _TECHNIQUES

 - $4.95 2h 32m

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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.