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“The common power source was a child pushing a toy train or pulling it on a tether.” An inventor named Joshua Lionel Cowen ...

“The common power source was a child pushing a toy train or pulling it on a tether.” An inventor named Joshua Lionel Cowen started Lionel in 1900 and came up with a battery-powered ...

For the show, a local HO Modular Group set up its Seattle Pacific and Eastern Railroad display which included Tacoma Rail ...

Lionel trains turns 125, celebrating more than a century of holiday magic. From historic models to smartphone-controlled ...

This reporter was briefed on the Lionel display by young enthusiast ... “I have TrackMaster trains, wooden trains, electric trains,” he said before going into details on each.

"And Lionel's largest trains, called O Gauge ... very entrepreneurial and really was working with electric motors. And it was a fairly whiz-bang sort of toy. LUNDEN: And technological innovation ...

"This layout here has three different Lionel train sets on it running and kids ... really was working with electric motors. It was a fairly whiz-bang sort of toy. It was not simple.

A Lionel toy train around the Christmas tree continues to be a fixture of holiday tradition in some families. The iconic American company is about to roll into its 125th anniversary.