Lionel®: A Collector's Guide and History - Postwar
Description:
This first disk on Postwar Lionel, is currently available for both PC and MAC. It has received positive reviews by the Lionel Collector's Club of America (LCCA) in The Lion Roared, PC Magazine, and Family PC.
The PostWar disk is structured around the comprehensive list of all Lionel cataloged items available in the PostWar era (1942 to 1969), and combines a variety of multimedia elements (pictures, music, video) to create a fully rounded experience of each Lionel item. Contents include:
- Full textual description of each catalog item along with complete listings of any variations of that item to aid the collector in pinpointing the exact variation and its approximate market value.
- Pricing and rarity estimate for every Lionel PostWar item to assist the collector in evaluating purchases and in appraising their own collection.
- Color images for every Lionel PostWar item sold from 1945 to 1969, over 1300 total catalog items.
- Over 60 minutes of video, including clips of major PostWar cars and most accessories items in full operation.
- A personal collection database for use in cataloging your own train collection with the capability to:
- Log every item in your current Post War collection by catalog number, condition, and quantity.
- Easy entry of items into the database while viewing information about a specific car to aid in accurate identification.
- Automatic calculation of the collection's estimated dollar value based on condition on item.
- Create a separate "Wish List" or "Dream Train" collection of items to seek out and automatical ly calculate the projected costs.
- Ability to print a listing of collection by category and to play a sequence of videos for items in your own collection.
- Historic background on the Lionel company and the evolution of Lionel toy trains.
- Extensive background information about each type of cars and other PostWar Lionel items ranging from diesel to electric engines, steamers to powered units, operating accessories to trackside accessories to replacement accessories, the entire range of boxcars and specialty freight cars, large and small passenger sets, item boxes to set boxes, as well as cataloged and uncataloged train sets.
- Valuable "How-To" information on toy train collecting and operation including terminology, parts, variation characteristics, how to identify rarity characteristics and considerations for pricing.
- Special topics that are both interesting, informative and fun including:
- A multimedia tours of the Lionel Postwar trains, and your personal collection.
- Video clips of "train wrecks", bloopers of what can go wrong when operating toy trains.
- Road name searches that allow direct access to items belonging to a particular set of authentic 'Road Name' designation such as Santa Fe, Pennsylvania Railroad, ...
- Descriptions of what to look for in order to accurately identify authentic items and what to watch for in avoiding fakes.
- Easy access on the CD-ROMs and on-line to the TRAINetwork Resource Directory, organized geographically and by topics, to aid in finding train related manufacturers and retailers of a wide range of model train area, collectors organizations, museums, and other train modeling information.
Train Yard Sample Screen
Visual interface for selecting train item categories. Just point and click.
Train Item Sample Screen
Visual interface for seeing train item information. Just point and click wherever the cursor arrow changes to a hand.
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