When it came to electric trains, no retail catalog could match the excitement generated by the latest Lionel catalog. Lionel’s staff artists created images of shining streamliners racing across the Great Plains to the West Coast and smoking steam engines heroically dragging mile-long strings of freight cars from one city to another. The wonder of it all is that these amazing train renderings, though incredibly realistic, were still identifiable as toys. The Art of Lionel Trains (more…)

An exhilarating, photo-filled journey through the history of America’s favorite toy trains, The Lionel Legend whisks readers through more than a century of Lionel. Veteran hobby historian and author Robert Schleicher conducts us all the way back to Joshua Lionel Cohen’s 1902 “electric cheese box”–the train that started everything–right up to the high-tech, meticulously detailed Lionels of today.  This thoroughly entertaining book features an astonishing variety of L (more…)

This is the Greenberg’s Guides® Lionel® Trains / 1901 – 2008 Pocket Price Guide from Kalmbach. / / FEATURES: Adhesive (Perfect) bound paperback guide / Provides you with the data you need before buying, selling or / even trading any Lionel® toy trains / Includes a brief description of each item with production date / and significant variations / Pricing information is provided for numerically listed items in / good, excellent, or new condition / Also offers tips about how an (more…)

Numerically arranged listings allow for rapid reference of prices during auctions. This compact and comprehensive guide provides you with 2,000+ accurate and easily accessible listings, with secondary market values for the legendary Lionel trains cherished by a majority of today’s toy train collectors, including Baby Boomer-age collectors reliving the joys of their youth. This handy and numerically organized train book contains an impressive collection of more than (more…)

Offers over a thousand repair and maintenance tips for Lionel locomotives, operating cars, accessories, transformers, light bulbs, and switches. Provides original Lionel technical advice and handy techniques submitted by toy train collectors and operators over the past ten years.

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This is the essential guide that collectors need before buying, selling, or trading any Lionel toy train or accessory. The latest edition of the famous Greenberg s Guide lists current prices and other reference information for prewar, postwar, and modern trains.

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“All Aboard will be required reading for anybody who ever had a model railroad.” — Palm Beach Post

This year the Lionel Train Company celebrates its 100th anniversary, and to commemorate the milestone comes a an updated second edition of ALL ABOARD!, the marvelous story of Joshua Lionel Cowen and the toy trains he created. Originally published in 1981, ALL ABOARD! brings back the classic electric trains for all those who remember them. The Santa Fe (more…)