1. Lionel’s New Odyssey motors’ demise is not going to be examined in any babble speak engineering articles. The Odyssey system will replace the Odyssey motors with PULLMOR motors to do the slow speeds and other requirements of the Lionel engine and therefore do away with the total overall Odyssey concept.

2. The #2624 Madison Car “MANHATTAN” is the rarest of these cars, only six are known to exist, the common car was #2623 which WAS supposed to be given to an observation car in 1941, Lionel never did made one.

3. The first painted aluminum passenger cars were the South Pacific Daylight but somehow the Norfolk & Western Powhatan Arrow set was the first set marketed in 1980.

4. Lionel toy trains in their history were a very sophisticated engineering design and the Lionel engineering department did not really consider them toy trains. To document this, Lionel Trains in 1926 changed the printed corrugated boxes from Lionel Electric Toy Trains, to "Lionel Electric Trains".

5. Kansas City’s Union Station is the third largest railroad station in the United States, only New York’s Pennsylvania Station and New Your Central Railroad’s Grand Central Station, also in New York are larger, New York Pennsylvania Station being the largest in the U.S.

6. They were the “Federal Express” of our grandfather’s generation, the green, red and white sign or logo. It had been around for more than seventy-five years, it seems you could not ship a parcel or package without using it. It had offices in just about every railroad terminal station in America, a bygone era of the Railway Express Agency.

7. The bridge that was never built was supposed to span the Hudson River at 34th Street in New York City to connect to Pennsylvania Railroad to the rest of its 24,000 miles of track. A true train bridge like the Hellgate which was later constructed in 1917; was scrapped in favor of going under the Hudson River by tunnel. This all took place at the turn of the 20th Century. The Rest is history.

8. The California Zephyr was operated by three railroads, the longest streak was Chicago-Denver by the Burlington, the second part Denver-Salt Lake City by the Denver and Rio Grande, and the west coast section from Salt Lake City to San Francisco by Western Pacific Railroad. The scenery on this ride is quite spectacular and just breathtaking.

9. The Canadian Pacific Railway has been in the business for over 118 years. It has gone through many changes and always seems to come back to their logo the beloved Canadian Pacific Beaver-Shield logo.

10. Canadian Pacific dining cars were named after noted dining rooms from Canadian Pacific owned hotels.