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Model Train Scale Tips: A Newbies Guidebook

Model train scales are a measurement of how big the model trains, as compared to the actual one. For beginners this can be the most bewildering part of this pastime, and often they accidentally confuse scale for gauge.

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Lionel Model Trains

Ever since they were in the initial days of their existence, Lionel model trains have improved a great deal. Though keeping true to its original design consisting of working lights, sounds and even smoke, these trains continue to improve with the progression of the real trains that we see today. With the Towercom audio feature, [...]

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The Origin of Lionel Model Trains

Born to a Jewish immigrant family in 1877, Joshua Lionel Cowen would go on become the founder of Lionel Trains. It was just after the Civil War that Lionel Cowen immigrated with his family, settling in New York. It was in the midst of major changes in the world, namely the industrial revolution that Lionel [...]

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