Description: Hit a few yardsales this morning (11/7/09) In this slide show I will display an entire box of electric model trains that I snatched up for $5 in Havertown, Pennsylvania. myworld.ebay.com

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 (more…)

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The American Flyer Cotton Belt Caboose is a great additioin to your S Gauge layout.

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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…)

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The American Flyer Erie-Lackawanna Caboose is a great additioin to your S Gauge layout.

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