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The birth of model trains began on September 5, 1900. A business opened by Joshua Lionel
Cowen and a colleague, Harry C. Grant, located itself in
lower Manhattan. Unknown at the time, it would eventually launch the model railroading industry. It was named the Lionel Manufacturing Company, but it was in the business of electrical novelties and was producing little, in the way of a product. Cowen was walking through lower Manhattan when
he stopped at a toy store window. There he saw a toy push
train. Imagining it being able to go around a track without assistance gave him his inspiration of electric model trains.
