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…)

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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…)

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…)Heavy Metal Bands

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