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Preiser 88515 Z Gauge Shopping People - NEW

Preiser 88515 Z Gauge Shopping People - NEW

- $12.99 3h 36m
Marklin Z 8606; Box car "Bananen" DB,  boxed

Marklin Z 8606; Box car "Bananen" DB, boxed

- $16.00 3h 56m
LED upgrade for Marklin Z scale F-7 Steam  Locos

LED upgrade for Marklin Z scale F-7 Steam Locos

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Marklin Z 88181; Express loco cl. 18 DRG,  ERA II,  new boxed

Marklin Z 88181; Express loco cl. 18 DRG, ERA II, new boxed

- $229.00 7h 3m
Marklin Z 88271; Express loco cl. 41 DRG,  ERA II,  new boxed

Marklin Z 88271; Express loco cl. 41 DRG, ERA II, new boxed

- $238.00 7h 3m
Marklin Z 8113; German Freight Train Special edition,  boxed

Marklin Z 8113; German Freight Train Special edition, boxed

- $258.00 7h 21m
Micro-Trains 14405; Tanker " Union Pacific RR",  boxed

Micro-Trains 14405; Tanker " Union Pacific RR", boxed

- $29.00 7h 22m
Marklin Z 82372; Set with 3 Self unloading concrete cars,  new boxed

Marklin Z 82372; Set with 3 Self unloading concrete cars, new boxed

- $89.00 8h 10m
Marklin Z 8667; Gas Tank car "ETRA Zurich",  new boxed

Marklin Z 8667; Gas Tank car "ETRA Zurich", new boxed

- $36.00 8h 10m
Micro Trains Special Edition Z Scale US Army Train Set

Micro Trains Special Edition Z Scale US Army Train Set

- $160.00 9h 37m
8789 Marklin Z SP Southern Pacific Observation Car

8789 Marklin Z SP Southern Pacific Observation Car

- $69.00 12h 23m
Marklin Z 87456 SBB Swiss Passenger Car Set,  4 Cars

Marklin Z 87456 SBB Swiss Passenger Car Set, 4 Cars

- $169.00 12h 43m
81562 Marklin Z Scale Train Starter Set Christmas Box

81562 Marklin Z Scale Train Starter Set Christmas Box

- $369.99 12h 55m
Marklin Z Locomotive Shells and Tender FREE SHIPPING

Marklin Z Locomotive Shells and Tender FREE SHIPPING

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12h 57m
Marklin Z Freight Car Holst Rum 80309 FREE SHIPPING

Marklin Z Freight Car Holst Rum 80309 FREE SHIPPING

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$30.00
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12h 57m
Marklin Z Set 82400 FREE SHIPPING

Marklin Z Set 82400 FREE SHIPPING

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$60.00
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12h 58m
Marklin Z Freight Car FREE SHIPPING

Marklin Z Freight Car FREE SHIPPING

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Marklin Z Freight Car Asbach Uralt FREE SHIPPING

Marklin Z Freight Car Asbach Uralt FREE SHIPPING

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86200 Marklin Z Torpedo Ladle Car 18 axles for the transport molten crude iron

86200 Marklin Z Torpedo Ladle Car 18 axles for the transport molten crude iron

- $149.00 13h
Marklin Z Passenger Car FREE SHIPPING

Marklin Z Passenger Car FREE SHIPPING

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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.