Postwar Lionel Model Trains Books

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The Big Book of Lionel

by Robert H. Schleicher

Included in this volume are: an overview of product development, track plans for the floor and tabletop, advice on building scenery and structures, wiring and ...

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Classic Lionel Trains, 1900-1969

by Gerry Souter

This book examines the five distinct eras of Lionel's history, placing them in the context of real-life railroads and world affairs.

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Standard Catalog of Lionel Trains, 1970-2000

by David Doyle

Explore the only full-color price guide to modern-era Lionel trains, ... Complete the Standard Catalog trilogy covering a century of Lionel train with this ...

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All aboard!

by Ron Hollander

To commemorate the milestone of Lionel Train Company's 100th anniversary comes an ... One century ago, Joshua Lionel Cowen created his first electric train. ...

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Greenberg's Guide to Lionel Trains, 1901-1942: O and OO gauges (2nd ed., c2001)

by Bruce C. Greenberg

Provides in-depth information and current prices on all prewar O gauge Lionel trains, including variations in trucks, couplers, and decoration.

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Classic Toy Trains

by Gerry Souter

Train Collectors Association Toy Train Museum, Strasburg, Pennsylvania Get a Lionel Train ^ on turn on the current. Away she dashes! Out of the station, ...

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Lionel Trains

by Lionel Trains

LIONEL TRAINS, A PICTORIAL HISTORY OF TRAINS & THEIR COLLECTORS allows a unique look at the history of LIONEL from a collector's point of view & includes ...

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Weekly World News

Featuring an exact replica of the original 4-car 'Lionel' train set from a century ago... this big 12-inch round precision quartz clock even has a railroad ...

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International directory of company histories

by Tina Grant

When Kenner-Parker Toys, Inc., spun off from General Mills in 1985, Lionel went with it as one of its divisions. That year Lionel moved its train production ...

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Popular Mechanics

As if by magic — your Lionel Automatic Train Control will start and reverse your Lionel Train without being touched by hand, and as if by magic— you can ...

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Treasure Trains

There's a good deal of crossover between contingents of train hobbyists, ... Lionel, for example, produced engines for 0-27 track as well as 0. ...

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Playing with Trains

by Sam Posey

Lionel trains. The word Lionel was magic. My Lionel train layout in our house in New York gave me the first inklings of an identity I could call my own. ...

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Popular Science

And this is why "Lionel Standard" and "O" Gauge Trains are far and away the most popular in America today. You can buy a complete Lionel Train from $5-75 ...

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Popular Mechanics

you and your Father can sit at the Switch Tower and magically direct the operation of your Lionel Model Train by simply manipulating the control levers. ...

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LIFE

Why not plan to see these LIONEL Trains at your nearest Lionel dealer's? Complete train sets as low as $15.95. And, meanwhile, send NOW for the ...

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Entrepreneurs, the men and women behind famous brand names and how they made it

by Joseph J. Fucini

Moments later, the precocious youngster watched in amazement as the world's first Lionel train exploded, taking most of the kitchen wallpaper with it and ...

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Energiehandbuch

by Eckhard Rebhan

During the glory times of prewar years and the brief period of postwar success, the question wasn't, "Would you like a Lionel train, son? ...

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Lionel Accessories at Work on Toy Train Layouts

by Neil Besougloff

This book provides a variety of ways to incorporate them--both originals and modern reproductions of older items--into toy train layouts.

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Popular Science

Always — you can control your Lionel Train at any distance down the track. What fun! Play a thousan d games— dream a thousand dreams with a Lionel Railroad. ...

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Popular Science

36-page full color LIONEL TRAIN Catalog. 2 Set of 3-Dimensional views of LIONEL TRAINS in Action. 3 Pair of Stereopticon Eyeglasses for viewing scenes. ...

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