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	NationMaster - Encyclopedia: Lionel Corporation (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		Joshua Lionel Cowen (August 25, 1877-1965), born Joshua Lionel Cohen, was an American inventor and the cofounder of Lionel Corporation, a manufacturer of model railroads and toy trains.
		The Great Depression hurt Lionel badly, and the company flirted with bankruptcy because the trains were considered a luxury item, and at the height of the Depression one of Lionel's more extravagant locomotives cost as much as a used Ford Model T.
		Lionel used the terms OSS for a straight section and OCS for a curved section of "special" track, that is, with an insulated outside rail.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Lionel-Corporation (3846 words)

	Lionel, LLC - Biocrawler (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		Lionel, LLC is a designer and importer of toy trains and model railroads, based in Chesterfield Township, Michigan and currently in bankruptcy.
		Although Lionel, LLC now owns all of the trademarks and most of the product rights associated with Lionel Corporation, the original producer of Lionel trains founded in 1900, there is no direct connection between the two companies.
		The original Lionel Corporation had recovered after the sale of its trains and survived as an entirely separate entity, operating a successful chain of retail toy stores for 24 years and becoming for a time the second-largest toy retailer in the country.
	www.biocrawler.com /encyclopedia/Lionel%2C_LLC (1567 words)

	News \| Gainesville.com \| The Gainesville Sun \| Gainesville, Fla. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		In 2006, Lionel's electric train, along with the Easy Bake Oven, became the first two electric toys to be inducted into the National Toy Hall of Fame.
		The Lionel 2353 diesel locomotive, a representation of the EMD F3 in the colorful Santa Fe "Warbonnet" paint scheme first introduced in 1953, became an icon of the company and the era.
		The shift caught Lionel off guard, and Lionel hastily brought out a line of HO scale trains in 1957 and followed with a line of slot cars as well.
	www.gainesville.com /apps/pbcs.dll/section?category=NEWS&template=wiki&text=Lionel_Corporation (2328 words)

	Lionel, LLC - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Lionel, LLC is a designer and importer of toy trains and model railroads, based in Chesterfield Township, Michigan and currently in bankruptcy.
		Although Lionel, LLC now owns all of the trademarks and most of the product rights associated with Lionel Corporation, the original producer of Lionel trains founded in 1900, there is no direct connection between the two companies.
		Lionel changed hands again in 1995, when Kughn sold controlling interest in the company to an investment group that included rock and roller Neil Young and holding company Wellspring Associates, which was headed by former Paramount Communications chairman Martin Davis.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Lionel,_LLC (1908 words)

	History of the Insulated Outside Rail
		Lionel used the terms OSS for a straight section and OCS for a curved section of "special" track, that is, with an insulated outside rail.
		Lionel's name does not appear on the patent, but corporate assignments are not prevalent on patents of this vintage.
		Lionel is not mentioned in the patent, but Willie, being from New York, may have been an employee of Lionel.
	www.three-rail.com /3RHIST.HTM (1013 words)

	The Rise and Fall and Rise Again of Lionel Trains
		Lionel under Cohn made so many acquisitions that they couldn't all be managed properly and the company had lost $13.3 million by the time he resigned in 1963.
		The original Lionel Corporation continued as a holding company of toy stores for many years, but floundered in and out of bankrupcy in the late 1980's until final bankrupcy and disolution in the early 1990's.
		Lionel had hoped to save money with the Mexicans working in the this new factory for 55 cents an hour, but the planning was bad, the work was shoddy, and the move turned into a fiasco...
	www.spikesys.com /Modelrr/lionel.html (3507 words)

	National Railway Historical Society - NRHS -
		In 1906, a massive change occurred; Lionel added an insulated third rail in the center to carry the current leaving the outer rails to be the ground rails.
		During the war, Lionel occasionally ran ads announcing "the best is yet to come," hinting at a plethora of innovation to be unveiled at wars' end.
		Lionel finally "allowed" girls to have their own trains, offering them in a range of soft and unrealistic colors that an out-of-touch management thought would appeal to the youngsters.
	www.nrhs.com /spot/lionel (1552 words)

	FAQs About Collectibility - Lionel® Collectors Club, news, Lionel electric toy model trains, meets (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		After 1970 ownership of the Lionel name and trademarks changed several times and trains continued to be manufactured in Mexico, the United States, and most recently, in the Pacific rim.
		Today's Lionel trains are excellent values and many include the latest technological advances to enhance both their realism and play value.
		Lionel has now been manufacturing toy trains for over 100 years and that speaks volumes about their continuing appeal to "kids" of all ages.
	www.lionelcollectors.org /links/collecting_faqs.asp (1097 words)

	Lionel Corp. - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Lionel Corporation was an American toy manufacturer, specializing in toy trains and model railroads.
		Lionel resumed production of toy trains in late 1945, replacing their product line with less-colorful but more realistic-looking trains and concentrating on O gauge exclusively.
		The Lionel 2353 diesel locomotive, a representation of the EMD F3 in the colorful Santa Fe "Warbonnet" paint scheme first introduced in 1953, became an icon of the company and the era.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Lionel_Corporation (2311 words)

	Model Trains - The Bad Fads Museum
		The Lionel Corporation owned the market for these train sets and it became an obsession to enthusiasts.
		By Christmas, the Lionel Corporation hit the ground running with cars that actually mimicked real trains - smoking smokestacks, whistling whistles, freight cars that had scale cattle -- you name it.
		Although model trains are not as popular as they were in the 1940's, Lionel Train Sets have become a collectors items and remained a fixture in the hearts of fathers and sons everywhere.
	www.badfads.com /pages/activities/modeltrains.html (252 words)

	Joshua Lionel Cowen
		Joshua Lionel Cowen (August 25, 1877-1965), born Joshua Lionel Cohen, was an American inventor and the cofounder of Lionel Corporation, a manufacturer of toy trains.
		The eighth of nine children of Jewish immigrants and a college dropout (he enrolled both at Columbia University and the City College of New York), Cowen received his first patent in 1899, for a device that ignited a photographer's flash.
		Lionel was soon the largest of three American toy train manufacturers, and for a short time in the early 1950s, Lionel was the largest toy manufacturer in the world.
	www.fact-index.com /j/jo/joshua_lionel_cowen.html (436 words)

	Lionel Train History - Invention of Lionel Trains (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		Lionel's first trains were powered by a battery, soon replaced by the 110-volt electric transformer.
		Lionel trains proved to be very popular, and before long Joshua Cowen was manufacturing cattle cars, coal cars, passenger cars, train stations, and tunnels.
		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.
	www.ideafinder.com /history/inventions/story022.htm (2805 words)

	Lionel, LLC
		Lionel, LLC is a designer and importer of toy trains and model railroads, based in Chesterfield, Michigan and currently in bankruptcy.
		Additionally, Lionel began selling reproductions of its designs that dated from the period before World War II.
		Additionally, Young helped finance the development of Trainmaster Command Control, a technology similar to Digital Command Control which permits, among other things, the operation of Lionel trains by remote control.
	www.xasa.com /wiki/en/wikipedia/l/li/lionel__llc.html (1197 words)

	Lionel, LLC Summary
		Moreover, the trademark Lionel layout was typically an animated affair, with a generous supply of operating accessories.
		In 1979, General Mills resurrected the American Flyer brand and product line, which Lionel Corporation had purchased from its bankrupt competitor (The A. Gilbert Company of New Haven, Connecticut) several months prior to its own bankruptcy in 1967.
		Lionel was sold again in 1986, this time to toy-train collector / real estate developer Richard P. Kughn of Detroit, Michigan.
	www.bookrags.com /Lionel,_LLC (1940 words)

	Lionel Library: Postwar Lionel Terminology
		Lionel used this truck on many of its shorter passenger cars -- those having a number in the 2400's.
		Lionel introduced the prototypical knuckle coupler in 1945 -- thus replacing its prewar, toy-like coupler.
		Lionel also made 0-4-0 steam switchers which were fairly accurate representations of the real ones.
	www.postwarlionel.com /terms.html (1581 words)

	Lionel
		Although Joshua Lionel Cowen started with a battery-driven electric fan motor in his wooden "cigar box on wheels" gondola, named the ELECTRIC EXPRESS, was not built to a particular scale, but for most of the first half of the century his company was known as the leader in "Standard" gauge model railroading.
		Lionel has always been the leader and innovator in the development of rolling stock and passenger equipment.
		Lionel's steady and unceasing pursuit of creating operating railroad cars probably was as much a factor in making the Lionel name famous as the smoking locomotive!
	www.modeltrainclassics.com /Lionel.html (766 words)

	Phatkat's Model Train Site
		In 1868, the Ives Corporation produced several impressive trains for the time, but they were still just elaborate pull toys.
		The concept was simple: Lionel would market their track gauge (2 7/8"), which no one else was using, so to expand you had to use Lionel's product exclusively.
		In 1918, American Flyer becomes electric, and the Lionel Corporation was formed, continuing to innovate and dominate the marketplace.
	www.geocities.com /phatkat64/train1.html (1102 words)

	Sam The Toy Train Man - Lionel & American Flyer model railroading
		Lionel will give you all the thrill and fascination of operating a real railroad.
		In the distance we see the brilliantly illuminated Station at Lionel City -- a touch of the transformer lever, and the Lionel Limited reduces speed and majestically stops -- the body of the engine quivering like a living thing, as though satisfied with a glorious run.
		LIONEL IS THE REGISTERED TRADEMARK OF THE LIONEL CORPORATION, NEW YORK, NY.
	www.toytrains.com (594 words)

	Model Train - Background, History, Raw Materials, The Manufacturing, Quality Control
		Lionel electric model trains were all the rage in 1938, had been for many years prior, and continued to be through the 1950s.
		The post-war years were profitable for the Lionel Corporation, as the company was renamed when it was reorganized in 1918.
		Young's interest in Lionel leadership began when he helped the company design a remote control device that could be operated by persons with handicaps affecting their grip.
	www.madehow.com /Volume-4/Model-Train.html (1656 words)

	LIONEL HISTORY BOOKS
		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.
		Lionel enthusiasts young and old will be fascinated by the thousands of full-color and historic photos displayed in this exciting new book, as well as the Lionel time line that details the ongoing history of Lionel trains.
		Lionel ® Trains, A Pictorial History of Trains and Their Collectors is the perfect gift for anyone who operates Lionel trains, a reminder of the joy Lionel brings to children of all ages.
	www.tandem-associates.com /lionelhistorybooks.htm (1346 words)

	Interview with George Toteff
		Indeed, if Lionel were to consider producing one more Irvington car for their "Legends of Lionel" series, George Toteff would be the ideal name for such a car.
		Throughout the 1960s, The Lionel Corporation was more interested in investing in new companies than its own core product line of toy trains.
		Years later, when I was negotiating to buy Lionel, and I told the gents this story, Lenny Dean and few others there got together, looked through the archives and picked out a train from the general era that they thought Dad would have bought.
	www.toytrainrevue.com /toteff.htm (2174 words)

	History (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		Joshua Lionel Cohen (he later changed the spelling to Cowen) founded the Lionel Manufacturing Company in 1900 and first produced trains in 1901.
		Lionel entered receivership shortly after purchasing Ives in 1930, but recovered by 1939.
		By 1955 Lionel was losing money and Cowen and his son sold their stock in 1959.
	www.msoe.edu /library/whats_new/model_trains_display/history.htm (577 words)

	Lionel Album Discography
		Lionel was run by producer Dallas Smith and songwriter Jimmy Webb.
		Their followup, "Absolutely Right" [Lionel 3220] made #26, but that was the last Lionel chart record they had.
		The Lionel logo was "Lionel" written in boxy green letters on the top of the label, with a green, grey, fl and yellow triangle to the right of the name.
	www.bsnpubs.com /mgm/lionel.html (596 words)

	News \| Gainesville.com \| The Gainesville Sun \| Gainesville, Fla. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		Lionel, LLC, a designer and importer of toy trains and model railroads, some using tooling and designs of Lionel Corporation.
		Lionel Corporation, also a designer and importer of toy trains and model railroads.
		Sir Lionel, a knight of the Round Table in Arthurian legend.
	www.gainesville.com /apps/pbcs.dll/section?category=NEWS&template=wiki&text=Lionel (90 words)

	Bill's Lionel Bookstore (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		This book was originally published by the Lionel Corporation in 1956 and has been reprinted by Bibliographic Press as a high quality softcover with acid-free paper.
		Many have fond memories of Lionel trains of this era, which seem indestructible, but in contrast to the trains, few instruction manuals have survived as they were originally printed on low-quality paper.
		This manual was published by the Lionel Corporation in 1940, and has been reprinted by Bibliographic Press on high-quality acid-free paper.
	www.hometown.aol.com /evansdad7777/Lionel.html (2161 words)

	1970s
		New Beginnings By the 1970s, what remained of the original Lionel Corporation was a holding company specializing in toy stores.
		It had leased the Lionel name to Minneapolis-based General Mills, which bought other toy companies like Parker Brothers, Kenner, and MPC.
		By 1973 Lionel was folded into General Mills subsidiary Fundimensions, which carried on the Lionel tradition with many trains that equaled or bettered the originals.
	www.lionel.com /CentralStation/LionelPastAndPresent/1970.cfm (110 words)

	Lionel Corporation ( Famous Toy Train Maker) 1950's
		This historic document was printed has an ornate border around it with a vignette of a boy playing with his Lionel toy trains.
		Joshua Lionel Cohen born, eighth of nine children.
		Lionel produced its first accessory, the 340 suspension bridge, also the first animated car.
	www.scripophily.net /noname.html (613 words)

	Lionel Trains
		But the large market share had been permanently lost: now Lionel trains could only be found in a small number of hobby and trains specialty shops, and rarely did the store have a full stock of trains with a nice layout to demonstrate them.
		Many collectors and Lionel fans are very upset that Lionel has closed its US factory, and like Mike's Train House, they will have their trains manufactured in the Far East.
		LCCA is the Lionel Collectors Club of American, and it is the "official" club sponsored by Lionel Trains Inc. They have sponsored factory tours in recent years as part of their annual meet.
	users.rcn.com /ed.ma.ultranet/lionel.html (1586 words)

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