The Lionel Legend

Features a photo-filled journey through the history of America's favorite toy trains. This book 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 Lionel's of today, and the details of FasTrack lines that boosted Lionel sales.

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An exhilarating, photo-filled journey through the history of Americas 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 Cohens 1902 electric cheese boxthe train that started everythingright up to the high-tech, meticulously detailed Lionels of today. This thoroughly entertaining book features an astonishing variety of Lionelsthe famous and the fascinatingly raresteam and diesel engines, freight and passenger cars, action accessories and cars, track and transformers.Lavishly illustrated with modern color photography, vintage advertising, and historic images of the real prototype trains, The Lionel Legend charts the course of what is arguably Americas most-enduring toy-industry icon.