He points towards the model trains. "This layout here has three different Lionel train sets on it running and ... really was working with electric motors. It was a fairly whiz-bang sort of toy.

An inventor named Joshua Lionel Cowen started Lionel in 1900 and came up with a battery-powered “Electric Express ... from a gift of a train set when I was 5 years old.

I've repaired and restored vintage Lionel locomotives, custom-painted entire train sets, and even researched ... Units such ...

A Lionel Thomas the Tank Engine train set enters a tunnel at TrainLand. It's one of the many brands Lionel licenses. Four-year old train collector Augie DiMartino watches the trains go by at ...