Book Description
Do You Live for Lionel?
There may be other things to live for, but collecting Lionel Trains takes living to a whole new level! The world of postwar Lionel Trains brought countless innovations to the legendary line that helped define the electric toy train, and this book breaks it all down into easy-to-find sections.
Divided into locomotives, freight and maintenance of way, passenger cars, accessories, catalogs, and cataloged sets, each section is then broken down further into subcategories such as steam locomotives and flatcars. Once you've found your model and style, you'll discover detailed descriptions unmatched by anything you've seen in other train guides!
Identifying and assessing your Lionel collection is made easy by the 1,450 detailed color photos, rarity ratings and up-to-date values that fill the pages of this must-have collectible train resource.
Customer Reviews:
An Excellent Reference.......2007-03-15
This is an excellent reference work. The layout of the book is easy to use and the pictures are first class. This book surpasses many of the standard reference works available. Makes a great addition to a reference library on Lionel Trains.
perfect.......2007-03-09
this is the only book you will ever need if you collect older lionel trains it covers all the bases and lets me remember everything I forgot many years ago when I got my first train set extremely informative thanks I only wish there was a book to cover later years
A major 'must have' bible of information.......2007-02-03
Now in a newly expanded and updated second edition, David Doylle's "Standard Catalog of Lionel Trains' showcases Lionel toy trains made from 1945 through 1969. Surveyed in an authoritative collector's reference this new edition packs over a thousand color photos with its expanded catalog , which includes variations on Lionel cars and accessories. Many collectors of Lionels will find come to consider this a major 'must have' bible of information, packing in color photos and charts of values for Lionel trains in all conditions.
Excellent catalog to find information on Post Lionel trains.......2007-01-19
Excellent amount of information on post Lionel trains. The catalog contains the highest amount of information on Lionel trains, the value and rarity for each model. Plenty of photos to provide visual reference for your research.
Collector Guide.......2007-01-04
The best or one of the best Lionel guides to postwar Lionel trains. The only guide that authoritatively lists all production variations over the years covered.
Book Description
Collectors of Lionel Trains will be quick to hop on board the ultimate resource for the first name in electric toy trains. The most complete reference of its kind, Standard Catalog of Lionel Trains 1900-1942, delivers meticulous descriptions even Lionel founder Joshua Lionel Cowen would admire.
Readers will explore pre-war era Lionel Trains through exhaustive descriptions and 1,100 stunning full-color photos of favorite o-gauge and standard trains like the original Electric Express. Current values, scarcity ratings and operating tips make this companion piece to Standard Catalog of Lionel Trains 1946-1969 the one reference collectors, train aficionados and retired locomotive operators won't want to be without!
-Features accurate and up-to-date pricing for Lionel trains of 1900-1942
-1,100 full-color detailed photos for assessing a collection
-Tips on operating, maintaining and repairing models, help collectors maintain a quality collection
Customer Reviews:
Standard Catalog of Lionel trains 1900-1942.......2007-01-09
Very help in determining age and type of Lionel items,and value before purchasing or selling.
The most complete guide available for Lionel products: collectors won't want to be without it.......2006-03-07
David Doyle's new Standard Catalog Of Lionel Trains 1900-1942 is the most complete guide available for Lionel products: collectors won't want to be without it. From the turn of the century until World war II, Lionel turned out toy trains for kids of all ages: over a thousand color photos blends with pricing guidelines for different conditions to accompany a history of Lionel products. Organized by type of product, from passenger cars and ballast cars to box cars, collectors will find this quite an easy reference to use.
The most complete guide available for Lionel products: collectors won't want to be without it.......2006-03-07
David Doyle's new Standard Catalog Of Lionel Trains 1900-1942 is the most complete guide available for Lionel products: collectors won't want to be without it. From the turn of the century until World war II, Lionel turned out toy trains for kids of all ages: over a thousand color photos blends with pricing guidelines for different conditions to accompany a history of Lionel products. Organized by type of product, from passenger cars and ballast cars to box cars, collectors will find this quite an easy reference to use.
The most complete guide available for Lionel products: collectors won't want to be without it.......2006-03-07
David Doyle's new Standard Catalog Of Lionel Trains 1900-1942 is the most complete guide available for Lionel products: collectors won't want to be without it. From the turn of the century until World war II, Lionel turned out toy trains for kids of all ages: over a thousand color photos blends with pricing guidelines for different conditions to accompany a history of Lionel products. Organized by type of product, from passenger cars and ballast cars to box cars, collectors will find this quite an easy reference to use.
Standard Catalog Of Lionel Trains 1900-1942.......2006-02-26
This is a great guide for my Lionel collection. This book is very handy for buying and selling Lionel trains. I have found this guide to be very accurate.
Book Description
Includes a brief description of each item with production date and significant variations. Pricing information is provided for numerically listed items in good, excellent, or new condition. Features the hobby's most accurate pricing data, compiling information from numerous sources around the country. Offers tips about how and where to buy toy trains, and insuring your collection
Covers Lionel's OO, O, Standard, and 2-7/8" gauge and large scale trains. Photo section features significant new products. Features a convenient, lay-flat binding.
Customer Reviews:
Essential Price Guide.......2007-03-02
When it comes to concise and easy to use price guides to Lionel Trains I have found Greenberg's Guides to be invaluable. It breaks the catalogue numbers down into eras or distinct ranges of years of production and lists price ranges based on condition in a very orderly fashion. If you sell or buy on eBay this is a valuable tool. Greenberg's Lionel Trains Guides and publications are all first rate and come highly recommended.
Book Description
For the first time in full color, O'Brien's Collecting Toy Trains has photos and listings of the leading brands of toy trains - Lionel (prewar and postwar), American Flyer, Ives, AMT, Kusan, Buddy L, Marx, Plasticville and Unique. Get the big picture of the hobby more than 100,000 train collectors enjoy. You'll find:
1,200 color photos as visual reference Locomotives, rolling stock and accessories Updated pricing throughout 6,000+ listings
David Doyle is a well-respected toy train expert who lives in Memphis, Tenn. His books include Standard Catalog of Lionel Trains, 1900-1942; Standard Catalog of Lionel Trains, 1945-1969 and Warman's Lionel Trains Field Guide.
Customer Reviews:
Terrific Value.......2007-05-07
This book is very helpful tool to determine values and identification of collectible model trains. There are numerous good quality pictures and a very complete listing of models. Valuation of trains are in line with other publications. Very good reference for a collector or a model train dealer.
Excellent, but ..........2006-07-20
The 6th edition is much improved over previous editions, especially with more and clearer pictures. It does have two faults -- almost nothing on pre-war American Flyer accessories (neither did previous editions) and seems to have left out Marx 3/16 scale tinplate cars, a very popular catagory, and which was included in previous editions.
A 'must' for any avid train collector.......2006-07-07
For the first time in full color, the updated 6th edition of O'Brien's Collecting Toy Trains pairs photos of the leading brands with listings of collectible pieces and their values. Over a thousand such photos provide visual reference to updated prices of over 6,000 train listings, organized handily by maker name for quick reference. David Doyle is a renowned toy expert who has produced catalogs of Lionel trains before: O'Brien's Collecting Toy Trains expands to other makers, includes color sidebars of data and information, and is a 'must' for any avid train collector.
O'Briens Collecting Toy Trains.......2006-07-02
This book is worth 10 times the money,It has valuable pictures and price guides for various makes and models.It also has accessories with price guide. I would recomend this book to anyone who collects model trains.
A Treasure Trove of Information for Toy Train Collectors.......2000-02-09
This 5th edition, 448 page volume contains a wealth of information, updated with the latest prices. It contains over 6,000 listings and more than 2,200 photos, mostly black and white (plus a 16 page full color section containing very large, sharp photos). In addition to the complete listings, it provides background information on each manufacturer. Topics range from American Flyer to Lionel, to Marx and Tootsietoy. A number of pages cover "miscellaneous" makers. Every item bears prices for up to 3 grades of condition. A must for toy train collectors!
Book Description
Showcases the most prevalent and preferred gauge of toy train
O Gauge trains represent the bulk of collector interest - and this is the first detailed collecting guide targeting this market
This fact-packed toy train guide brings critic and expertly gathered classic O Gauge train data, plus more than 900 stunning color photos of the most highly collectible trains in North America straight to you. The character of some of the best O Gauge trains in the hobby are captured in this handy and concise guide that is the perfect size for taking to shows, shops and conventions. Among the trains featured in this must-have reference are:
- Lionel: Prewar and Postwar
- American Flyer
- Marx
- Kusan
- AMT
- Hoge
- Dorfan
- Unique
- Hafner
- Ives
- Wyandotte
Customer Reviews:
Classic O Gauge Trains.......2007-09-30
This book is well done. It has clear photos, and is super-organized and delightfully written. The U.S. toy train industry grew and changed since the beginning of the 20th Century until the 1960 downturn. This book covers this time period and is a fine cross-section of all the major (and some minor) manufacturers and the history behind them from their genesis, who merged with whom, and who lost out in the long haul. I highly recommend this splendid toy train overview to the many amateur and professional collectors out there who will have a definite interest in this excellent publication. It's author, David Doyle, has researched the subject! From one model train collector to another, get this book. I give it a Fiver!
Book Description
Electric trains were high on any boy's Christmas list during the Fifties and Sixties and Sears sold the finest. This neat book contains full-sized authorized reproductions of every catalog page of toy trains sold by Sears from 1950 through 1969. Organized by year, the best and rarest are illustrated: Lionel, Marx, American Flyer, Tyco and Revell trains and accessories. in all gauges. Includes all the original selling prices too! "Must Have" for any collector.
Customer Reviews:
Nostalgia!.......2003-03-19
This book is filled with nostalgia. Great reprints of the Sears catalog pages over the years. See Lionel, American Flyer, Marx, Allstate...plus HO and N scale trains. You'll look at this again and again. Certainly brings back a lot of great memories.
Book Description
Lionel is the king of electric toy trains, and its collectors are among the most loyal "conductors" around. This handy, full-color guide is the perfect size to take with you to shows, club meetings and the hobby store.
This expertly written pocket-sized reference helps you:
- Easily identify various models using 800 detailed color photos
- Fine-tune your Lionel knowledge with 2,000 listings
- Confidently price trains using the three grades of current market values included in this book
- Make savvy decisions during the thousands of daily online auctions devoted to Lionel trains
Portable and precise, this comprehensive guide is a must-have for any Lionel Train collector.
Customer Reviews:
Not Half Bad.......2006-08-30
Quite useful for a quick check. Very useful for on line auctions to see if more investigation needed.
Great compact reference.......2006-06-05
This guide has everything in it that a collector of Lionel's postwar trains might desire - descriptions, values and best of all color PHOTOS! Though not as detailed as the Standard Catalog of Lionel trains upon which it is based, it non the less includes locomotives, freight cars, passenger cars, accessories, sets and catalogs - it even lists Lionel HO production.
Though format is a bit different, but can be slid into my pockets - though admittedly I would have prefered the book have fewer, but taller pages. However, the color photos of so many items - there are hundreds of them - give this volume a definate edge over any of the other guides I have used over the past 25 years.
This book definately rates as a "must-have" for the postwar Lionel collector.
Book Description
By popular demand! This sequel to our original Sears volume contains full-sized authorized reproductions of every electric train page from the great Montgomery Ward Christmas catalogs from 1950 through 1969. Organized by year, the book features thousands of trains, sets and accessories in all gauges are beautifully illustrated including such great brands as Lionel, American Flyer, Marx, Kusan and others, with original prices! A "Must Have".
Product Description
The Art of Lionel Trains Reproductions of the best artwork commissioned for Lionel advertising bring to life the classic Lionel toy train catalogs from 1901 to the present. The author, who has a Ph.D. In American History, brings to us the significance of the "wish books" that were so beloved by American children of the past century. Written by Classic Toy Trains senior editor Roger Carp.
Customer Reviews:
A Heartfelt Compendium .......2007-02-28
I saw this book on the shelf and opened it ever so gently and reverently. Those beautiful pictures of Lionel Trains reproduced from the old catalogs graced the pages. I went back in time for a few moments and tried to recall those days so long ago. I relived for a very fleeting moment that era and in a blink of the eye it was gone. But I savored the moment and put it away somewhere special to take out again perhaps on a rainy day as I gaze out my window in a bit of melancholy and think how long ago it was when I held my first Lionel Train. Flipping through the pages of this book is a moving experience if you grew up with Lionel Trains as I did. Collecting Lionel Trains and the catalogs was truly a family affair and one I will always cherish. This is an important book for me. I don't have to take out my Lionel catalogs with their yellowing and brittle pages or pull out streamlined passenger cars or boxcars from my closet in orange boxes now crumbling at the edges. I can sit down and open this book and gaze into the past and just remember. Just remembering is good enough these days. Just remembering when.
Excellent book!.......2005-10-01
A "must have" for Lionel Train enthusiasts. I'm not sure who enjoys it the most, my 60 year old husband or our three year old grandson! Ours is getting so dog-eared from hours of enjoyment that we might need to think about a repalacement!
A peek to an era when advertising art was lively yet simple.......2004-02-09
Officially licensed by Lionel itself, The Art Of Lionel Trains: Toy Trains And American Dreams by Roger Carp is more than just a simple showcase of promotional art that the Lionel company used to advertise their classic model locomotives; its informed and informative text follows the journey and evolution of the internationally famous model railroading company and its various products that inspired hobbies and dreams in households across America. Illustrated throughout in full color and a highly recommended addition to any personal or community library Railroading History collection, The Art Of Lionel Trains is as much a trip down memory lane for model train buffs as it is a peek to an era when advertising art was lively yet simple.
A little bit disapointed.......2003-12-30
The book is a beauty (as a graphic arts product) but as the review title reads I am a little bit disapointed. Don't get me wrong. I like Roger Carp and his writting. In fact, he is almost the only reason I am suscriber to TCC magazine. However the book, in my humble opinion, falls short in the two aspects one could possible focus on: the Lionel art and the information about it. The illustations though as nice as we expect from Lionel history are pretty much common for Lionel enthusiasts and very well known from long ago. One could think that being this a book about Lionel art something special would appear.
The text did not contribute much to the common knowledge of Lionel aficionados. Commom places such as the bond between fathers and sons and the search for security during rough times, fill most of the space in the book. Not even short biographies of artists as important as Robert Sherman appear in the text. Carp's great sense of humor is also pretty much absent.
In short, I think the other superb books by Roger Carp left me expecting more than real life provides. Everyone has the right to some "failure". In the case of Roger Carp I think this book fills the bill for that.
Would Christmas be the Same without a Train.......2003-12-06
"Saying 'Lionel' to anyone over the age of 40 brings forth nods of recognition and stories of smoking, whistling trains chugging around Christmas trees."
"The Art of Lionel Trains" is a showcase of familiar images, famous pictures and the artwork from catalog covers, newspaper advertising and other marketing pieces. Some of the pictures are sentimental and show the dreams of children.
When my mother bought my husband his first Lionel Train, I think he spent most of one afternoon putting the track together and then would amuse our cats by running the train at least once a day, complete with smoke billowing about in our mostly empty room. I kept wondering what was burning. My memories of Lionel Trains now include cats jumping across tracks to avoid the impending doom. They were actually quite fascinated for weeks.
This book highlights classic Lionel trains, helps to revive memories of toy trains from the past and analyzes art and its relationship to dreams and values.
The Chapters Include:
Dreams of Ambition 1900-1923
Dreams of Consumption 1920-1933
Dreams of Authority 1931-1947
Dreams of Security 1946-1964
Dreams of Nostalgia 1963-1993
Dreams of Tomorrow 1990-2003
This book is a history of Lionel Trains from 1900-2003 and is the perfect gift for Lionel Train fans everywhere. Each chapter contains detailed information on all things train through an analysis of advertising.
What I noticed, is a sense of family unity throughout the pictures. It also seems that a Lionel Train looks best with a Christmas tree. Artists actually started promoting this idea back in the1920s. The text in the advertising is readable in most cases. You have to love the pictures of the poor kids watching while "grandpa and dad" took over the train tracks.
Roger Carp has been a member of the editorial staff of Classic Toy Trains magazine since 1988. You might want to look for additional selections by Roger Carp:
The World's Greatest Toy Train Maker: Insiders Remember Lionel
Classic Lionel Display Layouts You Can Build
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Standard Catalog Of Lionel Trains 1900-1942 (Standard Catalog of Lionel Trains 1900-1942)
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The Big Book of Lionel: The Complete Guide to Owning and Running America's Favorite Toy Trains
Warman's Lionel Train Field Guide: Values And Identification (Warman's Field Guides)
Standard Catalog of Lionel Train Sets 1945-1969
