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Lights, Camera, Lionel Trains! A Photo History of an American Icon (Hard Cover)
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Lights, Camera, Lionel Trains! A Photo History of an American Icon (Hard Cover)
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Lights, Camera, Lionel Trains! A Photo History of an American Icon presents 100 stunning photo essays that reveal how Lionel electric trains became an American cultural and social icon of the 20th century.
Those innovative and exciting toys defined what it meant to be a happy and fulfilled child while enabling celebrities in sports, show business, and politics to stay in touch with the innocence of their past. Full-color and black-and-white photographs from archives and private collections tell the story of how one dynamic toy maker arose to influence life in the United States.
You're sure to be entertained and informed by what Lionel historian Roger Carp writes about the dozens of rare and delightful pictures. And those images will nurture memories of the electric trains you may have played with or seen in action on television and in motion pictures.
About the Author
Roger Carp has been fascinated by Lionel trains and the people who created them since he received a small steam engine and some freight cars as a youngster in 1956. His interest directed him, after earning a Ph.D. in American history at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, to Classic Toy Trains magazine, where he has served for 20 years as senior editor.
Roger has written or edited more than 20 books and special-interest publications about Lionel—its trains and accessories, its leaders and workers, its showrooms and displays, and its legacy. Among them are The World’s Greatest Toy Train Maker (1998), Classic Lionel Display Layouts You Can Build (2000), The Art of Lionel Trains (2003), Authoritative Guide to Lionel’s Postwar Operating Cars (2005), Authoritative Guide to Lionel’s Promotional Outfits 1960–1969 (2007), Inside the Lionel Train’s Fun Factory (2008), Collectible Lionel Classics (2017), Lionel Trains of the 1950s (2019), and Lionel Trains of the 1940s (2022). He also oversees production of the annual edition of Greenberg’s Pocket Price Guide to Lionel Trains.
A native of Los Angeles, Roger lives near Milwaukee with his wife and Lionel trains.
Hard Cover, 224 Pages, 11" x 8.5", Full Color, 220+ Photos & Images.
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Looking Back
L. Kalb (Submitted on Feb 3rd 2025)
As I, a 78 year old, who received his first
Lionel train in the early fifties, Roger Carp wrote a historic review and nostalgic rememberence of Lionel.
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Excellent Book and Service
Unknown (Submitted on Jan 4th 2025)
Great book on history of Lionel.
I am enjoying reading it and very pleased that the publisher made the book availabe.
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Curt U Vogt (Submitted on Dec 20th 2024)
I love this kind of publication because it brings us back to our childhood. The pictures of children with the trains in period when the trains were new lets our imagination run away. I would like to see more pictures of the factory and how the trains were made on the assembly line
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Lights, Camera, Lionel Trains
Unknown (Submitted on Dec 19th 2024)
Well written and awesome old photos, very informative and hard to put down when reading.
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A Historical Photographic Archival Review of Toy Trains
Gregory Palmer (Submitted on Dec 18th 2024)
A fantastic Photographic Historical review of Lionel Toy Trains. These Photos and the written details of each scene is priceless. A fantastic book of Historical artifacts. Roger Carp should be commended for the hard work it took to compile these archival Photos. Being an Historian and a former Public-School Librarian as well as a Toy Train collector I applaud Rogers' work and expertise. This book is a must for all Toy Train collectors.
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LIGHTS, CAMERA, LIONEL TRAINS
Phil Dullinger (Submitted on Dec 13th 2024)
I just received LIGHTS, CAMERA, LIONEL TRAINS its t he best Christmas present I received snce my 1957 Loniel train set.
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Fascinating picture-history
LG (Submitted on Dec 4th 2024)
Excellent compendium of Lionel's graphic and sales highlights. Informative captions.
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awesome new book
marlowe koch (Submitted on Nov 30th 2024)
just got my 2 copies of new book great photos a must have book .very well done a must have to read .great storys of lionel trains .thanks
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Worth the wait
Jack Stein (Submitted on Nov 21st 2024)
More than just a picture book this title tells the behind-the-scenes story of marketing and selling Lionel trains.
Wonderful stories about the people who promoted and sold Lionel products as well as the customers who enjoyed them, both famous and ordinary. A most pleasant and long-overdue read!
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Treat to have
David Osborn (Submitted on Nov 16th 2024)
What a treasure trove of information and pictures. The book is so amazing I am sure it will be an outstanding source of information for years to come. Future generations will treasure this book because it shares with them the experiences we had enjoying our trains.
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