Jeff Ludden
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NPR News Now
NPR News: 12-16-2024 7PM EST
At the turn of the 20th century, a young inventor named Joshua Lionel Cowan came up with the idea of powering a model train with electricity. Lionel Train's CEO Howard Hitchcock says electricity in homes was a recent phenomenon, so this was an exciting new technology.
NPR News Now
NPR News: 12-16-2024 7PM EST
And Lionel Trains has continued to embrace innovation. Lionel is putting out several products to celebrate its 125th anniversary, including a whole new Star Wars-themed series of trains. For NPR News, I'm Jeff London in New York.