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Woodland Scenics 1947 Carpenter Crew (5) HO Scale

Woodland Scenics 1947 Carpenter Crew (5) HO Scale

- $18.99 30m
Woodland Scenics HO Figures - Travelers

Woodland Scenics HO Figures - Travelers

- $12.25 31m
100 FIGURES 1:100 Model Building Layout People Scale HO

100 FIGURES 1:100 Model Building Layout People Scale HO

- $0.96 32m
WOODLAND SCENICS HO AUTO SCENE LUMPY'S COAL COMPANY

WOODLAND SCENICS HO AUTO SCENE LUMPY'S COAL COMPANY

- $31.49 33m
Woodland Scenics HO Figures - Road Crew

Woodland Scenics HO Figures - Road Crew

- $12.25 34m
Woodland Scenics 1949 Cougars and Cubs (6) HO Scale

Woodland Scenics 1949 Cougars and Cubs (6) HO Scale

- $18.99 36m
Woodland Scenics 1948 Service Station Attendan HO Scale

Woodland Scenics 1948 Service Station Attendan HO Scale

- $18.99 36m
HO 1:87 Preiser SIX Seated Spectator FIGURES

HO 1:87 Preiser SIX Seated Spectator FIGURES

- $12.75 39m
Woodland Scenics HO Figures - Track Workers

Woodland Scenics HO Figures - Track Workers

- $13.25 40m
Woodland Scenics 1944 Take a Hike (6) HO Scale

Woodland Scenics 1944 Take a Hike (6) HO Scale

- $18.99 43m
Woodland Scenics 1953 Miscellaneous Freight HO Scale

Woodland Scenics 1953 Miscellaneous Freight HO Scale

- $18.99 43m
Woodland Scenics HO Figures - Baseball Players I

Woodland Scenics HO Figures - Baseball Players I

- $13.25 44m
HO PREISER (48) SEATED Interior PASSENGER FIGURES 14400

HO PREISER (48) SEATED Interior PASSENGER FIGURES 14400

- $57.95 44m
Woodland Scenics 1951 Music To My Ears (4) HO Scale

Woodland Scenics 1951 Music To My Ears (4) HO Scale

- $19.74 45m
Woodland Scenics 1952 Down Hill Derby (5) HO Scale

Woodland Scenics 1952 Down Hill Derby (5) HO Scale

- $18.99 48m
HO PREISER (36) STANDING FIGURES # 14412

HO PREISER (36) STANDING FIGURES # 14412

- $45.95 48m
Woodland Scenics 1954 Taking the Stairs (6) HO Scale

Woodland Scenics 1954 Taking the Stairs (6) HO Scale

- $18.99 51m
Woodland Scenics HO Figures - Painters

Woodland Scenics HO Figures - Painters

- $14.24 52m
100  detailed painted figure seated + 50 standing people

100 detailed painted figure seated + 50 standing people

- $9.00 52m
Woodland Scenics HO Figures - Take a Hike

Woodland Scenics HO Figures - Take a Hike

- $19.94 1h 10m

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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.