Welcome to Vermont's largest and most
complete train shop! Model railroaders will find
a wonderful selection of trains and  accessories
in all scales,Z through G scales. Children of all
ages are especially welcome at Mike's Hobbies
to view working train layouts and a wide
selection of train related merchandise 
including the  Thomas the tank engines
and friends.

Cowen  was born in 1877, just before Edison's
first electric light. He grew up with real trains,
amid dizzying change. Around the time he 
founded Lionel in 1900, passenger lines like
the peerless Twentieth Century Limited
symbolized American technology and
sophistication.Cowen was already a successful
inventor when he created his first toy train.
But The Electric Express and its off spring soon
became a sacred mission,and Cowen would spend
a lifetime stoking America's imagination with the
romance of the rails. He told boys that Lionels
would prepare them for adulthood. Soon Dads
too were encouraged to join Youngsters in
model train enthusiasm, to future father-son
bonding.  With growing prosperity, Lionels
layouts cropped up in more living rooms, 
especially at Christmas.  Before mid-century,
railroads were our economic life blood,
as well as cultural icons.
 

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