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Sometime in the 20th century, toy trains for the standard gauge and the O gauge were made available in the market by Lionel.
Basically it was manufactured to meet the demands of children of ages 4 to 6, then in the later years for children 8 years of age and above.
The O scale (1:48) model railroad trains became very popular then and as of to date.
The Lionel model trains come in O scale having locomotives, rolling stocks of cars and carriages, buildings as well as scenery with and array of collectible sets in different price bracket.
As the Christmas holidays fast approaching, Lionel released right at the top of the shelf this year, the GG 1 Electric Locomotive equipped with a new realistic steam generator blow-off erupting smoke plume from the stack with a TMCC Cab-1 command and high lighting characteristics such as; dual powered maintenance free motors with common flywheels, new directional LED headlights and marker lights illuminating on the end opposite the active headlight, die-cast metal bodies and trucks, front and rear electro couplers, engineers, firemen figures in lighted front cab and interior, opening side doors, end doors and roof hatches, all new railroad 5.
0 sound system and effects complete with dialogues from crew, passengers and tower command announcement, and operates in direct command control mode or the conventional transformer control mode.
These are some of the features high lighted aside from the minimum curve of 0-27 curve track and a length of 20".
Now out in the market the GG 1 Electric Locomotive are the O scale model trains (6-18354) Pennsylvania # 4916 (Tuscan), the (Brunswick Green 6-18355) Pennsylvania # 4876, and the (6-18356) Penn Central # 4901 just to name a few favorites.
Lionel model trains are still one of contenders in both Europe and the United States, along side with the Lionel HO scale model trains and accessories.
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