Inside the Lionel Trains Fun Factory

 Acknowledgments

Dedication

Prologue

PART I: Building the Fun Factories

• Manhattan Job Shops: The Early Years
• The First Fun Factories
• A New Beginning in Irvington
• Expanding Into Hillside

PART II: New Opportunities & Diversification

• The Twisted Sixties
• Selling The Hillside Factory
• Acquired Factories in Transition

PART III: Lionelers & Their Inventiveness

• A Great Place to Work: Or Was It?
• Intellectual Capital of the Toy Train Business
• How Trains Were Made
• In Defense of America: The War Years

PART IV: Toy Train Reprise

• Ruins of a Great Era
• Epilogue

PART V: Appendices

• Lionel Factory Departments
• Timeline of Major Lionel Fun Factories
• Lionel Patents

Illustration Credits

Bibliography

Index