Lionel: America's Favorite Toy Trains

-- Souter, Hardbound, 156 pages, $29.95

Lionel's pre- and post-WWII lifetime was highlighted with memorable feats of design brilliance: the Blue Comet, the M-10000 streamliner, the New York Central Hudson, the Pennsylvania Railroad GG1, and a vast collection of clever accessories. The authors interviewed Lionel experts and collectors as well as studied the vast body of collector-oriented literature. Think of the word, "electric train," and you think of "Lionel."