RAILROAD STORY VINTAGE LIONEL TRAINS FILM PENNSYLVANIA RAILROAD 88144
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- This 1951 Castle Films sound short shows a boy playing with a model railroad and his dreams of operating a fast locomotive on the Pennsylvania main line. There are wonderful scenes of real trains, and about three and one half minutes show toy trains. Much of this footage was shot in the actual Lionel Showroom with salesman Myles Walsh demonstrating the layout to a young boy. The film ends with the boy dreaming that he is a locomotive engineer -- so charming and wonderful didn't we all?
Lionel Corporation was an American toy manufacturer and retailer that was in business from 1900-1993. Founded as an electrical novelties company, Lionel specialized in various products throughout its existence, but toy trains and model railroads were its main claim to fame. Lionel trains, produced from 1900 to 1969, drew admiration from model railroaders around the world for the solidity of their construction and the authenticity of their detail. During its peak years, in the 1950s, the company sold $25 million worth of trains per year. Lionel resumed producing toy trains in late 1945, replacing their original product line with less-colorful, but more realistic trains and concentrating exclusively on O-gauge trains. Many of Lionel's steam locomotives had a new feature: smoke-produced by dropping a small tablet or a special oil into the locomotive's smokestack, which contained an electric heating element. Their most popular toy train ever mass-produced was the Santa Fe F3 released in 1948. It was manufactured for 19 years before being discontinued in 1966.
By 1953 Lionel profits reached its highest peak in the postwar era at over $32 million, but as the 1950s progressed Lionel sales began to decline in the growing prevalence of space and military toys and slot car racing sets - all coinciding with the decline in rail travel and the launching of Sputnik, which began the space-race between the United States and Soviet Union, along with the associated military build-up as the Cold War progressed after World War II. What remaining interest in toy and model trains that existed was geared towards HO scale which gradually overtook O gauge in popularity due to its more realistic detailing and smaller size that enabled the enthusiast to do more modelling within the same amount of space. Lionel attempted to keep pace with the changing trends by offering space and military-themed train sets and coming out with their own HO line of trains. Unfortunately, they were never able to reclaim the market share they once held in the toy industry and by 1958 reported a net loss of $469,057.
In 2006, Lionel's electric train, along with the Easy-Bake Oven, became the first two electric toys inducted into the National Toy Hall of Fame. They published a television advertisement in the mid-1980s with a very well known and remembered jingle, "Lionel Kiddy City, turn that frown [clap, clap] upside down."
Lionel remains the most enduring brand name associated with model trains in the United States, its products prized by collectors. Today, Lionel, LLC owns all of the trademarks and most of the product rights associated with the Lionel Corporation; there is, however, no direct connection between the two companies.
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That little kid could have been me. I got my first Lionel train in 1940 when I was 2 years old. It still runs around the Christmas tree every year.
How about now
How about now
Awesome layout. Who would ever had thought that a layout like that would be worth tens of thousands of dollars today.
Love all those old trains.🚂🚃🚃🚃🚃🚃🚃🚃
The Union Pacific Alco FA diesels pulling the passenger train on the Lionel display are the rare early 1950 production models that have a gray nose. The layout also has several examples of pre-WWII production.
1:48 Oh my gosh! Look at the gray nose on the locomotive! That’s super rare
The engine goes from a GG1 to Daylight.
when your rich you can do everything it took me 20 years to get there but im happy have most of thu trains postwar you bet
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This brings back many happy memories of my youth but unfortunately this version of American manhood has successfully been destroyed by political correctness .
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prydonian460 What do you mean? Who destroyed what? If a man wants to run a model train, who's gonna tell him he can't?
No one is saying you can't run a model train if you want to. What I am saying is that basically today's young men DON'T want to run them nor do they , for the most part , care to pursue most of the things young boys loved back when this film was made. I feel that this is in a large part due to the relentless war on boys being boys waged by our politically correct educational system.
prydonian460 Well, you baffle me now with your answer. Usually the toy trains and model trains is a tradition handed down from father to son or grandfather to grandson. I don't know where you get the notion that schools have anything to do with preventing kids from playing with trains. What's "political correctness" got to do with it? Surely you don't mean schools are teaching kids to sit home and play computer games in every spare moment. Where are the parents in this situation? Are parents preventing kids from playing with trains? Are parents encouraging kids to sit around playing with computers?
And, I have to ask- what's this "war against boys" you're talking about? Who's trying to hurt our boys, and when? If you mean teaching boys it's not right to rape girls or calling people of color it's wrong to use insulting and inflammatory remarks, that's not warring on our kids, that's good manners and common sense.
www.prageru.com/courses/political-science/war-boys
The lifetime "bug" as they called it, is true.
You said in the video description that Lionel was in business from 1900-1993. Lionel is still in business in 2020. This year is their 120 Anniversary.
The Company founded by Joshua Lionel Cowen went bust in 1993. After the disastorous decade of the sixties Lionel Licensed it's brand to General Mills From. 1970 on Ronald Saypol made electronics for military contractors which sold well then the Cold War died and The company Joshua Cowen founded in 1900 went bust in 1993. In the mid eighties Richard Kughn bought the stuff from General Mills INCLUDING the name It is unofficial OR Officially known as LLC or Lionel Trains Inc
I love to see these old trains...........
You mean Lionel but they still exist