
SHIPPING NOTE: We combine all items ordered for one shipping cost. I'm sure that Bruce Greenberg secured any needed permissions. Lionel Fundimensions O-Gauge Electric Trains 1981 Sneak Preview Catalog. Greenberg Publishing was also doing reproductions of Lionel catalogs during the 1970s. It further stated that the book was neither authorized nor approved by Lionel or by Fundimensions. Its title page acknowledged The Lionel Toy Corporation as owner of the Lionel trade mark. Greenberg's Operating Instructions with Layout Plans for Lionel Trains (1978) consisted entirely of copies of Lionel instruction sheets / booklets from the postwar era.

It further disclaimed that neither Maury Klein nor Greenberg Publishing were connected with Lionel or with Fundimensions. To dwell upon the differences between the Lionel Manufacturing Company, the Lionel Corporation, Model Products Corporation, Fundimensions, Kenner-Parker, Lionel Trains Incorporated, and Lionel, LLC risks marginalizing the manufacturer itself.
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PLEASE DOWNLOAD OUR CURRENT POSTWAR INVENTORY LIST AND THE TRAIN COLLECTOR'S ASSOCIATION GRADING SYSTEM FOR LIONEL POSTWAR. It still remains 'Lionel,' the maker of quality electric trains and accessories. Postwar can also include Fundimensions Lionel trains from 1970 through 1986. Title page of Operating O and O27 Trains acknowledged that Lionel was the registered trade mark of The Lionel Toy Corporation. Trains produced by Lionel after World War II, from 1945 through 1969. None of the Lionel instructions appear to contain copyright notices. The copyright for Handbook for Model Engineers would have expired long before 1976.

Lionel discontinued the manufacture of standard gauge in 1939. In the early 70s the line was rather small. Fundimensions, being experienced in toys and plastics, greatly improved the line with it own style of innovation. They began manufacturing model trains in O gauge in 1915, and this size eventually replaced the standard-gauge trains. Fundimensions at the beginning used Lionels old designs and color schemes but as time went on the added new cars, engines, and accessories.

Lionel used three-rail standard-gauge track designed to eliminate circuits. Frontispiece in Operating O and O27 Trains (1976) explicitly acknowledged that pages 7-168 were reproduced from Lionel's Handbook for Model Engineers (1940) while pages 169-222 and 231-240 were reproduced from Lionel instruction sheets, the most recent of which appears to be for #2350 New Haven electric from 1956. LIONEL / 1973 (Consumer Trade Catalog) LIONEL of Fundimensions on . By 1906, Lionel offered a selection of engines and cars as well as preassembled track.
