Dear Fellow Trainees:
L.I.T.T.L.E (Long Island Toy Train Locomotive Engineers) is now delivering our latest offering
During World War II, Grumman became known for its "Cats", Navy fighter aircraft, F4F Wildcat and F6F Hellcat. Both were designed for ease of manufacture and ability to withstand significant damage. Grumman's products were considered so reliable and ruggedly built that the company was often referred to as the "Grumman Iron Works".
On May 29, 2004, President Bush dedicated the World War II Memorial to honor "The Greatest Generation," 59 years after the end of WWII. Regrettably today, very few of these elderly veterans have the funds, knowledge or strength to complete a conventional trip to Washington D.C.
Funds raised from the profits of the sale of this car will go toward Honor Flight Long Island, a non profit organization created solely to honor America's veterans for all their sacrifices. Honor Flight flies our nation's heroes to Washington, DC to visit and reflect at their memorials. Over the past five years, Honor Flight Long Island has sponsored 25 flights honoring over 840 Long Island World War II veterans, and 43 Viet Nam veterans. All veterans fly at no cost to them, made possible by individuals and groups such as LITTLE. It is the intention of Honor Flight Long Island to honor as many of these selfless "ordinary people who saved the world" as we can by providing them a FREE trip to visit their memorials. http://honorflightlongisland.org/
This Lionel produced 6-58556 LITTLE WWII Navy Aircraft on translucent Flatcar is currently being mailed to our customers.
If you are interested in purchasing this item, we have but a handful of extras left, check out our website:
For Club information visit our website http://www.littleclub.org/ or contact faethg@littleclub.org
To download an order form for the Navy airplane car:
http://www.littleclub.org/cars...PLANE-Order-Form.pdf
Our next project is to help out our local TCA Division, METCA, and defray the costs of the membership tours. June 20 - 28, 2015, The Metropolitan Division will host the 61st Annual TCA National Convention at the Doubletree Hotel in Somerset, NJ, 08873.
"The Metropolitan Division encompasses all of New York City and Long Island as well as the Southern tip of New York State, Southeast Connecticut and Northern New Jersey. And the Doubletree in Somerset will put conventioneers a stone's throw from New York City, and right in the middle of one of the greatest metropolitan areas in the nation.
We plan a wide array of great tours and activities to take advantage of all the area has to offer.
We're also actively seeking members with layouts they'd be willing to share and show off to convention goers. If you're interested, we'd also like to hear from you. And of course, as always, there will be trips and tours, the welcoming party with silent auction, organizational meetings, board of directors meetings, Kids Club activities, trading pits, banquet and the always popular banquet auction. This is always followed by the final day trip or tour!
This promises to be one of the greatest conventions ever for toy train lovers across the nation and the world. Get it on your calendar now -- don't miss it!"
http://www.metca.org/2015convention.html
To commemorate Entenmann’s ties to Long Island, LITTLE has created this Lionel factory produced hopper car (6-58562) in “O” Gauge. It features die-cast metal sprung trucks and will come in a unique white box with blue trim llike our previous Entenmann’s vat car.
For Club information visit our website http://www.littleclub.org/ or contact faethg@littleclub.org
To download an order form for the Entenmann's hopper car:
http://www.littleclub.org/cars...-Order-Form-2014.pdf
Profits from this Entenmann's hopper car will go to METCA, so your purchase will get you a neat looking car and also help out with the TCA 2015 Convention of our friend, Stuart Rankin-President of the Metropolitan Division.
George Faeth, formerly of Grumman Aerospace
Al Schwartz, formerly of NLOE and FDNY
Bob Mintz, formerly of Da Bronx and Longuyland
