Lionel Ready to Play Smithsonian Old St. Nick Christmas Boxcar Model Train Rolling Stock

When Lionel founder Joshua Lionel Cowen's immigrant family arrived in New York after the Civil War, the railroads were literally America's engines of progress. The "Golden Spike" meeting of the Union Pacific and Central Pacific lines in 1869 unified the continent and signaled the birth of a world power. Cowen was born in 1877, just before Edison's first electric light. He grew up with real trains, amid dizzying change. Around the time he founded Lionel in 1900, passenger lines like the peerless Twentieth Century Limited symbolized American technology and sophistication. Here comes Santa Claus on this stunning Smithsonian boxcar!

Lionel Smithsonian Old St. Nick Christmas Boxcar: Die-cast metal sprung trucks and operating couplers Opening doors on boxcars Metal frame and brake wheel on boxcars Metal handrails, platform and ladders on tank cars