Lionel Miniature Electric Cars Catalog (1903)
- Year
- 1903 Catalog verified
- Manufacturer
- Lionel Manufacturing Co. Catalog verified
About this item
Lionel's 1903 catalog of 2 7/8-inch gauge electric cars, which notes the goods were being offered to the general public for the third year.
Details
- Holiday
- Christmas
- Archive type
- Catalog
- Product line
- Lionel electric trains
- Materials
- printed paper catalog
Collector details
Research notes
Scan has 20 page images. Scan comes from a CD of Lionel catalog PDFs bought by the uploader (Frontier Trading Archive); original provenance unknown and pages carry a frontier-trading.com watermark. Scan rights: US work published before 1929, so it is in the public domain.
Memories
Personal recollections. They never change the facts above, but they’re why the archive exists.
Sign in to share what you remember
No memories yet. Be the first to share one.
Currently for sale
None listed right now.
Want this? Get notified when another is listed.
Questions about this item
Was it sold at Kmart or Sears? Was there a green variation? Ask the collectors.
Sign in to ask the community.
More Christmas catalogs
Sources & verification
- Lionel Corporation (Wikipedia) Encyclopedia Article Supports: No. 2333 Santa Fe F3 released 1948 as most popular postwar locomotive; Cowen linked trains to Christmas via department-store displays; electric train inducted in Toy Hall of Fame 2006 View source
- Lionel Manufacturing Co. - Miniature Electric 2 7/8" Inch Gauge Train Cars Catalog 1903 (Frontier Trading Archive) Retail Catalog Supports: Scan of the 1903 Lionel catalog; OCR confirms Lionel and year View source