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2. Lionel Corporation - Wikipedia

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   Many diesel, electric, and steam engines made after 1950 had Lionel's Magne-Traction, which made the wheels magnetic in order to grip the track better. Lionel's most popular toy train ever mass-produced was the Santa Fe F3, numbered 2333, released in 1948. By 1953, Lionel sales reached their highest level at over $32 million.

3. Lionel, LLC - Wikipedia

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   The train came in a Lionel Postwar Celebration Series box and was a TMCC engine. In April 2000, competitor and former partner MTH Electric Trains filed a trade secret misappropriation lawsuit against Lionel, LLC, saying that one of Lionel's subcontractors had acquired plans for an MTH locomotive design and used them to design locomotives for ...

4. Pennsylvania Railroad class S2 - Wikipedia

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   The model train company Lionel made several models of the S2. The first ones, 671 and 2020, were released in 1946 and were discontinued in 1949. The 681 turbine's first production run was in 1950 and 1951. It was similar to both of the original turbine models but the 681 has Lionel's Magne-Traction feature which makes the wheels magnetic.

5. List of Chesapeake and Ohio locomotives - Wikipedia

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   S-2 58 engines built 1949–1950; S-4 14 engines built 1953; RS-2 2 engines built 1949, and later sold to Lehigh Valley Railroad; RSD-5 26 engines built 1952; RS-1 2 engines built 1953; RS-3 2 engines built 1955; RSD-12 10 engines built 1956; RSD-7 12 engines built 1956, retired and traded to GE 1969; C-630 4 engines built 1967, and later sold ...

6. List of model railways - Wikipedia

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   This layout is one of the finest O scale layouts in North America, modelling Southern Ontario in the 1950s. People can enjoy seeing a model of the Southern Ontario countryside, as well as late steam locomotives and first-generation diesel locomotives pulling trains down the line. [100] It is currently owned by Waterloo County Heritage ...

7. Retirement of steam locomotives by country - Wikipedia

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   Steam locomotives continued however to be used for industrial purposes. The last steam locomotive was used at the Julia coal mine in 1975. In Poland, on non-electrified tracks, steam locomotives were superseded almost entirely by diesels by the 1990s. A few steam locomotives, however, operate in the regularly scheduled service from Wolsztyn ...