Lionel Postwar World War 2 Model Trains History Types Models Dates / Scarce Book

Description

On of the most comprehensive books ever published on the subject, this rare out-of-print book provides and in-depth survey of standard gauge Lionel trains. "All the great Lionel trains from the postwar era, 1946-1969, are pictured and written about in this book."
LIONEL: A COLLECTOR’S GUIDE AND HISTORY – Volume II POSTWAR
by Tom McComas and James Tuohy, Chilton Book Co., Penn., 1976.
This book “is the definitive reference for collectors and toy train enthusiasts to Lionel’s history, production, designs, and advertising  This volume contains photographs of more than 400 items and, with painstaking attention to detail, follows the course of the Lionel Corporation through its most successful years of the fifties to the decline in the sixties, a decline matched by rea railroads as Americans turned increasingly to air and automobile travel." This book is a collector’s item in itself and an invaluable resource reference work for the serious collector, dealer, or historian of model railroads.
8.9” x 11.3” hardback book with dust cover in very good condition.  138 pages.
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