Lionel Trains
Lionel Trains
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 LIONEL TRAIN LOT MAPLEWOOD HILLSIDE CHATHAM STEAM ENGINE WITH TENDER VINTAGE  US $925.00
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 1956 Lionel Train Set with books US $225.00
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 Vintage Lionel Trains Shadow Box Picture US $224.99
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 Varney Athearn Lionel Kadee HO trains and cars lot of 9 assorted vintage VGC US $171.00
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 Vintage Lionel Trains pins and blue strips engineer hat US $139.99
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 REDUCED to $130004 piece Lionel train set US $130.00
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 LIONEL TRAIN CATALOGS US $100.00
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 VINTAGE LIONEL TRAIN ERIE 2032 43 Tracks Scout Dumpster Sunoco Parts US $100.00
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 RAILROAD MUG CUP LIONEL ELECTRIC TRAINS SIGNED MICHAEL LESON USA BEAUTIFUL US $99.99
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 Vintage Lionel Train Set Locomotive Coal Car Green Gray Red Cars FAIR CONDITION US $99.99
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 LIONEL TRAINS Legendary Musical Wall CLOCK 12 Engine Choo Choo Collectible RARE US $88.95
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 DOUBLE CROSSING The LIONEL Train Game RARE 1988 by LIONEL US $50.00
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 Lionel train US $50.00
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 24 x 15½ Arched Top Lionel Trains Electric Model Railroad Accessories Plaque US $49.99
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 75 76 LIONEL TRAINS 9809 CLARK REEFER CAR US $49.99
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 Lionel Train brochure full color 1946 old US $49.50
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 LIONEL TRAIN COLLECTORS WATCH NEW IN BOX REAL TRAIN SOUND US $45.95
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 Official Lionel Train Watch with Collectible Tin and Original Box w COA 90s US $41.65
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 Greenbergs Lionel Prewar Trains Repair Operating Manual US $40.01
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 Lionel Train Nabisco US $44.00
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 Greenbergs Guide to Lionel Trains 1945 1969 Vol III 1990 Paul V Ambrose US $39.95
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 Springbok Lionel Train 1000 Piece Puzzle NIB 24 x 30 Hallmark US $39.00
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 Officially Licensed Lionel Train Watch in Tin with COA and Retail Box PCSTN US $35.99
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 Lionel Train Nabisco US $39.00
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 Lionel Trains Engineer Hat Cap Stripes Patch 100 Cotton Dated 1992 US $34.99
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 Ande Rooney Lionel Trains Santa Fe Metal Sign US $33.95
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If You want to Please Your Man buy him a Model Train
Do you know what Steven Spielberg, Neil Young, Pete Waterman and James May all have in common? They are all keen model train enthusiasts.
Well know music producer Pete Waterman has a huge system housed in 200 foot barn, reputed to be worth at least half a million pounds. He even has his own model train making company. And this isn't unusual amongst wealth model train enthusiasts. Steven Spielberg and Neil Young have their own model train company called Lionel trains.
And this small band of celebrities are not alone in their obsessive enthusiasm for model trains. Building and operating model railways is no longer the preserve of young boys. It's their dads, their uncles and even the old rock musicians they listen to who are more likely to have a room full of Hornby Trains.
Model train collecting has become big business. Obsessive collectors tend to be interested in pristine vintage models that are still in their boxes, never having been played with. As Mr May correctly says in his TV programme, this is not what these model trains were meant for.
At a model train auction Mr won a completely unused Hornby train set for £200 which other collectors would have kept, unused, in its box. Mr May built and played with the train set in his James May's Top Toys television programme as he says this is what was intended when the system was made.
In the pre-Christmas December 20th edition of James May's Toy Stories he and loads of helpers rebuild the long lost rail link between Bideford and Barnstaple in Devon using OO gauge model train track. Although some of the track was stolen by vandals Bideford and Barnstaple was once again linked by rail, allbeit for a short time. Unfortunately the model trains weren't big enough to take any passengers or goods, but nevertheless a lot of people had a lot of fun with model trains.
You could win one of two fantastic Hornby Train Sets in the current Christmas Hornby Competition from modelzone.co.uk. All you need to do is answer just one very simple question and you could win a great Hornby train set.
Lionel train layout by the Curto family