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4 73' RED CABOOSE OPERA WINDOW CENTERBEAM FLATCARS

4 73' RED CABOOSE OPERA WINDOW CENTERBEAM FLATCARS

 - $55.00 10h 1m
7 73' RED CABOOSE STANDARD DESIGN CENTERBEAM FLATCARS

7 73' RED CABOOSE STANDARD DESIGN CENTERBEAM FLATCARS

 - $100.00 10h 6m
RED CABOOSE N SCALE LEHIGH & NEW ENGLAND ARA BOX CAR RN-17014-2 MINT IN BOX

RED CABOOSE N SCALE LEHIGH & NEW ENGLAND ARA BOX CAR RN-17014-2 MINT IN BOX

 2 $9.91 10h 37m
N- RN-16507 - 75' Centerbeam Flat Car - CP Canadian Pacific - weathered MTL

N- RN-16507 - 75' Centerbeam Flat Car - CP Canadian Pacific - weathered MTL

 6 $10.00 11h 17m
N- RN-16621 - 75' Centerbeam Flat Car - Tricon Forest Products - weathered MTL

N- RN-16621 - 75' Centerbeam Flat Car - Tricon Forest Products - weathered MTL

 7 $12.00 11h 21m
N Red Caboose Center Beam Car Union Pacific UP #273124 MTL

N Red Caboose Center Beam Car Union Pacific UP #273124 MTL

 - $14.00 1d 1h 30m
N Red Caboose Evans Coil car 'Sun-N-Sand Arizona Copper ' SP# 592002 MTL

N Red Caboose Evans Coil car 'Sun-N-Sand Arizona Copper ' SP# 592002 MTL

 - $14.00 1d 1h 30m
Red Caboose N-Scale Northern Pacific Mechanical Refrigerator Car Pt # 18815-02

Red Caboose N-Scale Northern Pacific Mechanical Refrigerator Car Pt # 18815-02

 - $21.95 1d 2h 34m
Rock Island 955009 100 Ton Evans Coil Car Red Caboose RN-17731-4 DBT [F3.27]

Rock Island 955009 100 Ton Evans Coil Car Red Caboose RN-17731-4 DBT [F3.27]

 1 $12.95 1d 10h 28m
Rock Island 955022 100 Ton Evans Coil Car Red Caboose RN-17731-6 DBT [F3.26]

Rock Island 955022 100 Ton Evans Coil Car Red Caboose RN-17731-6 DBT [F3.26]

 1 $12.95 1d 10h 28m
"N" RED CABOOSE 19204-11=89' BI-LEVEL AUTORACK(CLOSED DR) SOU TTGX 606145

"N" RED CABOOSE 19204-11=89' BI-LEVEL AUTORACK(CLOSED DR) SOU TTGX 606145

 - $32.00 1d 22h 1m
"N" RED CABOOSE 19290-7=89' BI-LEVEL AUTORACK(OPT END DR) N&W TTGX 992695

"N" RED CABOOSE 19290-7=89' BI-LEVEL AUTORACK(OPT END DR) N&W TTGX 992695

 - $32.00 1d 22h 10m
N SCALE RED CABOOSE 25642-3=4750 COVERED HOPPER CONRAIL 890711

N SCALE RED CABOOSE 25642-3=4750 COVERED HOPPER CONRAIL 890711

- $15.00 1d 23h 40m
Red Caboose N RN-17409 Idaho Forest Thrall Box Car

Red Caboose N RN-17409 Idaho Forest Thrall Box Car

 - $15.25 2d 2h 3m
Red Caboose 62' beer car, Rio Grande, D&RGW 3 car set

Red Caboose 62' beer car, Rio Grande, D&RGW 3 car set

 - $20.00 2d 5h 32m
N Red Caboose Fish Belly Flat Cars Chicago & North Western #42197 & #42401

N Red Caboose Fish Belly Flat Cars Chicago & North Western #42197 & #42401

 - $24.00 2d 6h 17m
Red Caboose N Scale Train Repair Tools + FREE SHIPPING

Red Caboose N Scale Train Repair Tools + FREE SHIPPING

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 $19.99
$24.99		 2d 12h 26m
Pacific Fruit Express - SPFE R70-15 reefer # 451250

Pacific Fruit Express - SPFE R70-15 reefer # 451250

 - $21.25 2d 13h 2m
N SCALE RED CABOOSE 17217-6=PC&F 62' INSULATED BOXCAR UNION PACIFIC 465129

N SCALE RED CABOOSE 17217-6=PC&F 62' INSULATED BOXCAR UNION PACIFIC 465129

- $12.00 2d 20h 10m
N SCALE RED CABOOSE 25642-5=4750 COVERED HOPPER CONRAIL 890719

N SCALE RED CABOOSE 25642-5=4750 COVERED HOPPER CONRAIL 890719

- $15.00 2d 20h 13m

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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.