found: Its Model railroading, 1950.
found: Hollander, R. All aboard! 1981:t.p. (Lionel Train Company)
found: Stand. & Poor's, 1981(Lionel Corp.)
found: Call to pub. 8/24/81(Lionel Train Company is same as Lionel Corporation; no name change)
found: Greenberg's guide to Ives trains ... c1984:text (Lionel bought assets, together with American Flyer, of Ives Manufacturing Corporation when Ives went bankrupt in 1928; late in 1929 or early in 1930 Lionel probably purchased American Flyer's share)
found: Lionel WWW site, 1-14-97(Between 1967 and the early 1990's Lionel Corporation leased its train making rights to various companies (Model Products Corporation, MPC; Lionel Trains Incorporated, etc.); in the early 1990's Lionel Corporation declared bankruptcy; in 1995 Lionel L.L.C. acquired Lionel Trains Incorporated and the trademarks of the original Lionel Corporation)