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Lionel trains are best known for their glory days—the 1950s—when young boys and their dads enjoyed designing train layouts as a great American pastime. Today many collectors and hobbyists enjoy the nostalgia and tradition of Lionel trains.

The Lionel Corporation was founded in 1900 by Joshua Lionel Cowen, an enterprising young inventor. He was born the eighth of nine children to Jewish immigrant parents in 1877. He had dropped out of college three times, unable to conform to the structure of a formal education. He took a job at Acme Lamp assembling battery lamps. His fascination with electricity lead to a patent for a device that could ignite a photographer’s flash powder using dry cell batteries. He also succeeded in creating several other inventions including mine fuses he developed under contract with the US Navy. Cowen grew up at a time when trains had only recently begun to travel across the country with the opening of the Pacific Railroad in 1869. In the late 19th century trains, were the most advanced form of travel and electricity was only beginning to be brought to private homes.

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The original Lionel Corporation was founded in 1900 by Joshua Lionel Cowen and Harry C. Grant in New York City.^[3] The company's devotees disagree over the date of incorporation, as the official paperwork gives a date of September 5, but the paperwork was not filed until September 22, more than two weeks later.

Initially, the company specialized in electrical novelties, such as fans and lighting devices.^[4]

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