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NCE DCC Scale HO Decoder - DA-SR - 4 Pack - NC-524-107

NCE DCC Scale HO Decoder - DA-SR - 4 Pack - NC-524-107

- $72.86 43m
Digitrax DCC UT4D "Wireless Radio" "Duplex" Utility Cab

Digitrax DCC UT4D "Wireless Radio" "Duplex" Utility Cab

- $114.75 1h 11m
NCE D808-SR G DCC Decoder 8-Function 8-Amp

NCE D808-SR G DCC Decoder 8-Function 8-Amp

- $94.95 1h 19m
NCE DTK DCC Decoder Test Kit 524-219 NEW

NCE DTK DCC Decoder Test Kit 524-219 NEW

- $21.95 1h 19m
Soundtraxx Tsunami TSU-1000 EMD 567 Diesel Sound Decoder #827101

Soundtraxx Tsunami TSU-1000 EMD 567 Diesel Sound Decoder #827101

- $99.95 2h 55m
Soundtraxx Tsunami TSU-1000 EMD 645 Diesel Sound Decoder #827102

Soundtraxx Tsunami TSU-1000 EMD 645 Diesel Sound Decoder #827102

- $99.95 2h 57m
Soundtraxx Micro-Tsunami TSU-750 Light Logging Sound Decoder #826020

Soundtraxx Micro-Tsunami TSU-750 Light Logging Sound Decoder #826020

- $114.95 3h 1m
unique~authentic"CP RAIL"model RR train storage box parts box ho gauge n gauge

unique~authentic"CP RAIL"model RR train storage box parts box ho gauge n gauge

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MRC Sheer Brilliance Mini HO EMD Modern Large Diesel Sound Decoder w 28 Function

MRC Sheer Brilliance Mini HO EMD Modern Large Diesel Sound Decoder w 28 Function

- $86.98 3h 28m
N   DIGITRAX  SDN144K1E   w Sound for Kato SD40-2

N DIGITRAX SDN144K1E w Sound for Kato SD40-2

- $59.99 3h 51m
Digitrax DCC N Scale Decoder - DN163I1B

Digitrax DCC N Scale Decoder - DN163I1B

- $28.31 3h 58m
NCE 524-025 Power Cab DCC System Starter Set with Add-On Accessories

NCE 524-025 Power Cab DCC System Starter Set with Add-On Accessories

23 $173.00 5h 33m
Soundtraxx HO Scale KT1000 DCC Decoder TSU-828062

Soundtraxx HO Scale KT1000 DCC Decoder TSU-828062

- $97.16 6h 8m
Y Split Layout Wire 17 AWG

Y Split Layout Wire 17 AWG

- $1.00 6h 12m
SOUNDTRAXX SPEAKER BAFFLE KIT 810107 3 8 "

SOUNDTRAXX SPEAKER BAFFLE KIT 810107 3 8 "

- $3.99 6h 17m
827014  750 MICRO 827014 GE Cummins Diesel  SOUNDTRAXX

827014 750 MICRO 827014 GE Cummins Diesel SOUNDTRAXX

- $116.97 6h 17m
SOUNDTRAXX SPEAKERS 3 8 #810083

SOUNDTRAXX SPEAKERS 3 8 #810083

- $7.99 6h 17m
Soundtraxx Tsunami TSU-1000 Dual EMD 567 Diesel E Units Sound Decoder #827118

Soundtraxx Tsunami TSU-1000 Dual EMD 567 Diesel E Units Sound Decoder #827118

- $99.95 6h 52m
Spectrum EZ Command Control System Digital Dynamis Handset 36507

Spectrum EZ Command Control System Digital Dynamis Handset 36507

7 $34.00 6h 59m
LENZ DCC SYSTEM SET #6100 NMRA PRO Ver# 3.6

LENZ DCC SYSTEM SET #6100 NMRA PRO Ver# 3.6

- $325.00 7h 26m

Lionel news

  • 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.