Starter Trains News Today

>> when did trains become part of peoples living rooms running around the christmas tree? >> the company started in 1900. a guy by the name of joshua lionel cowan right here in the city invented electric trains so what happened is as christmas went along, people wanted to add animation to the tree. so they took their lionel train set and put it around the bottom of the tree and created animation. it became an american tradition to do that. so now christmas and lionel go together. >> that makes p...