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While there are many factors to consider, the many features of the Lionel Polar Express Model ... lets you change direction. Most electric Christmas train sets come with some kind of control ...

"This layout here has three different Lionel train sets on it running and kids could operate the remotes over there. You see him pressing the horn?" His dad, Ken Bianco, Sr., says Christmas has ...

No one can say with certainty when the first Lionel model train was set up to chug around a Christmas tree and surprise ... goes that Cowen sold his first electric train in 1901 to a store owner ...

For many American families, Christmas ... 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 “Electric ...

Recognizing their appeal to children, Lionel began marketing its electric toy trains as ... assembling a train set around the Christmas tree became a staple in some households over the years ...

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That's when his dad gave him a Lionel electric train set for Christmas. The train set sparked his fascination with electronics. Boucher's father ran a radio and television repair shop in ...

"But since it's Christmas, I'm heavy on the gingerbread this time of year." A Lionel Thomas the Tank Engine train set enters a tunnel at TrainLand. It's one of the many brands Lionel licenses.