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00 SCALE HORNBY RAILWAYS SR BATTLE OF BRITAIN LOCOMOTIVE  "SPITFIRE"

00 SCALE HORNBY RAILWAYS SR BATTLE OF BRITAIN LOCOMOTIVE "SPITFIRE"

13 $72.00 4h 42m
00 SCALE HORNBY RAILWAYS LMS 4-6-2 "CORONATION",  CLASS 7P LOCOMOTIVE

00 SCALE HORNBY RAILWAYS LMS 4-6-2 "CORONATION", CLASS 7P LOCOMOTIVE

7 $65.99 4h 47m
HORNBY R8552   R8587   R8655   R8682 "SCALEDALE" STRUCTURES

HORNBY R8552 R8587 R8655 R8682 "SCALEDALE" STRUCTURES

- $45.00 7h 38m
HORNBY R64063A LNER BRAKE COACH "TEAK" 7913

HORNBY R64063A LNER BRAKE COACH "TEAK" 7913

- $25.00 9h 46m
Trix Twin,  Hornby? train set metal 2 axle cars Trix of England Vintage  Restore?

Trix Twin, Hornby? train set metal 2 axle cars Trix of England Vintage Restore?

4 $24.00 10h 47m
Four Hornby Skaledale Shops R9629 9630 9631 9632 NIB For OO gauge model railways

Four Hornby Skaledale Shops R9629 9630 9631 9632 NIB For OO gauge model railways

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$89.00
$99.00
11h 1m
HORNBY COMPATIBLE TRACK PLANS OO 00 GAUGE 130 LAYOUTS

HORNBY COMPATIBLE TRACK PLANS OO 00 GAUGE 130 LAYOUTS

- $6.99 21h 57m
0-4-0 British Railways Switcher

0-4-0 British Railways Switcher

1 $9.99 1d 7h 8m
Vintage 0-4-0 City of York Switcher

Vintage 0-4-0 City of York Switcher

- $9.99 1d 7h 14m
HORNBY TRI-ANG OO SCALE #R120 BR SUBURBAN BRAKE COACH # M43171

HORNBY TRI-ANG OO SCALE #R120 BR SUBURBAN BRAKE COACH # M43171

- $27.99 1d 8h 1m
HORNBY TRI-ANG OO SCALE #R121 BR SUBURBAN COMPOSITE COACH #M41006

HORNBY TRI-ANG OO SCALE #R121 BR SUBURBAN COMPOSITE COACH #M41006

- $27.99 1d 8h 1m
HORNBY BRITISH OO GAUGE STEAM ENGINE OB

HORNBY BRITISH OO GAUGE STEAM ENGINE OB

- $100.00 1d 8h 42m
Triang Blue Pullman Engine Car & 1 Dummy Engine Car

Triang Blue Pullman Engine Car & 1 Dummy Engine Car

1 $9.99 1d 9h 22m
Hornby Skaledale Farm Buildings NIB for OO gauge model railways,  Very Rare.

Hornby Skaledale Farm Buildings NIB for OO gauge model railways, Very Rare.

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$89.00
$125.00
1d 9h 39m
Hornby-Dublo Platform Station w Ramps,  Bottom of Orig. Box!!!

Hornby-Dublo Platform Station w Ramps, Bottom of Orig. Box!!!

- $39.95 1d 9h 57m
Hornby-Dublo Passenger Train - Silver King Locomotive, Tender, Etc in OB!!!

Hornby-Dublo Passenger Train - Silver King Locomotive, Tender, Etc in OB!!!

- $220.00 1d 10h 8m
Hornby Dublo Weltrol and Bogie Bolster Wagons - 2 -rail

Hornby Dublo Weltrol and Bogie Bolster Wagons - 2 -rail

- $10.05 2d 3h 55m
Hornby Dublo Wagons x 3

Hornby Dublo Wagons x 3

- $15.07 2d 4h 10m
Three Hornby Dublo Wagons

Three Hornby Dublo Wagons

- $10.05 2d 4h 22m
HORNBY LOCOMITIVE OPERATING & MAINTENANCE INSTRUCTIONS

HORNBY LOCOMITIVE OPERATING & MAINTENANCE INSTRUCTIONS

- $1.00 2d 5h 51m

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.