All Aboard: The Story of Joshua Lionel Cowen & His Lionel Train Company

All Aboard: The Story of Joshua Lionel Cowen & His Lionel Train Company
Author: Ron Hollander
Publisher: Workman Publishing Company
Description: Hardcover - 288 pages Rev update edition (October 9, 2000)
ISBN: 0761121331

One century ago, Joshua Lionel Cowen created his first electric train. A simple open wooden box on wheels, its sides stained red and printed with Electric Express in gold lettering, it was intended for shop windows where, loaded with goods, it would advertise a store's wares. But as it turned out, customers coveted the train, not the cargo, and Cowen discovered a new business. And as it also turns out, there's a picture of an Electric Express on page 29. Because All Aboard! Is the definitive illustrated history of Joshua Lionel Cowen, the company he founded, and the electric trains that for decades were synonymous with boyhood in America. Originally published in 1981, it has been revised and updated for Lionel's 100th anniversary, capturing the spirit of a company remarkable for its resilience and dedication to innovation ? traits that continue to define it even today.

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