The Lionel Collectors Club of America has a weekend full of Special Events across our great country scheduled for this weekend. If you are in the San Francisco CA, Conway AR, Houston, Texas or Charleston SC this weekend, we have a Special Event for you. Please read below for additional information. We hope can participate and have some fun this weekend.
Best Regards
Al Kolis
President Elect
Lionel Collectors Club of America
LCCA - Dec 6 - San Francisco - United Airlines Fantasy Flight Special Event
The Lionel Collectors Club of America (LCCA) invites everyone to attend and participate in the upcoming United Airlines Fantasy Flight Event at San Francisco’s International Airport. LCCA Members John Rinaldi, Mike Desing, Russ Hora along with others in the Golden Gate Lionel Railroad Club (GGLRC) are proud to be participating in this event. On December 6, LCCA member John Rinaldi and the Golden Gate Lionel Railroad Club will be at a United Airlines departure gate in San Francisco International Airport, where a 747 awaits a take-off for the North Pole. They will take children with life threatening illnesses along with their families on an hour long flight and return to a terminal decorated as the North Pole. Prior to departure, the families will be entertained and experience the magic of Lionel trains running on the GGLRC toy train layout.
This year, The Golden Gate Lionel Railroad Club is bringing their club’s large, highly detailed, portable Lionel toy train layout for all of the children and their families to enjoy. The LCCA will be donating LCCA Special Events Pins for the children to wear. The GGLRC will have the pleasure of entertaining these kids and their families while they wait for the plane to depart. The kids will be stuffed with candies, holiday cookies and plenty of drinks from the GGLRC’s special Christmas gondolas.
This is a great event to help spread some holiday cheer with the children suffering with severe illnesses along with their families. We hope the families will enjoy some of the holiday spirit as well as enjoy the sight, smells and sounds of Lionel trains running on the GGLRC’s layout.
For more information about this event, or would like to donate your time, money or gifts, please contact John Rinaldi at 650-279-8615. Please help spread the magic of Lionel Trains during this holiday season!
United Airlines is also sponsoring similar events in Chicago, Washington Dulles Airport and Pittsburgh, PA. If you want to get involved with these worthwhile endeavors in these other cities, please contact the United Airline Fantasy Flight program atwww.unitedfantasyflight.com
Thank you to John Rinaldi, the Golden Gate Railroad Club, United Airlines and Lionel for their efforts and contributions to support this very worthwhile cause.
Best regards,
Al Kolis
President Elect & Special Events Manager
Lionel Collectors Club of America
248-709-4137
agkolis@comcast.net
About the Fantasy of Flight Program.
The Fantasy Flight program began in 1992 at Washington DC’s--Dulles Airport, with the Make-A-Wish-Foundation, for terminally ill children. The children wished to tour the airport and to fly on a plane. Therefore, employees of the Dulles Airport conjured up a plan and decided that Christmas would be a wonderful time to grant them their wish. The Fantasy Flight program instantly grew from one airport location to forty-six domestic / international locations. LAX made Fantasy Flight a dream come true in 1993, making this year our 17th years given the children the opportunity to enter the airport gates and fly on an aircraft. Over three-thousand young children attend this event at various airport locations. The children are referred from many different social service organizations. Participant includes the Department of Family and Children Protective Services, and the South Bay Vocational Center and various social service establishments for youths.
December 6, 2014 - LCCA Invitation To Toy Train Open House Event Conway, AR
The Lionel Collectors Club of America (LCCA) invites you and your family to attend a toy train open house event at the McGee Center in Conway AR on Saturday December 6. Spread the word and bring the kids to this family friendly event. There will be several interactive, hands-on operating toy train layouts (both HO and O Gauge), including layouts featuring THOMAS-series trains: with Thomas, Percy, James, Emily, and Gordon in action. Free Admission, Free entry for door prizes, Free appraisals of vintage Lionel ,American Flyer, and Marx Trains, and Free estimates of repair to Lionel or American Flyer toy trains by a certified Lionel technician.. If it’s Free, it’s for me!
Train Open House
Location: McGee Center
3800 College Ave
Conway AR
Date: Saturday December 6, 2014
Time: 9:00 AM to 3:00 PM
Please invite your friends and neighbors for a day of fun playing with Lionel Trains. Come and experience the Magic of Lionel Trains! If you have any questions, please contact LCCA member and former Editor of The Lion Roars, Mike Mottler at 501-327-8747
Dec 6, 2014 Home Layout Tour, Houston, TX
Fellow LCCA member Glen Rosenbaum will be showing and running his O gauge Houston, Wharton & Pecos Railroad to LCCA and TCA Members in the Houston Metro Area on December 6, 2014, from 2 to 5 PM. This will be an extension of Roger and Dorcie Farkash’s TW TrainWorx annual layout festival that was held this past September 27th in Dallas.
Glen would appreciate an RSVP from those who would like to attend, as there is limited parking. He and TrainWorx will provide complimentary valet parking along with refreshments for those who attend. You can call him at 713-758-2594 or email him at grosenbaum@velaw.com. If you need to contact Glen on December 6th, you can reach him at 713-729-0606.
For our LCCA members who are also TCA Members, Glen’s layout is scheduled to be shown on June 23, 2016 during the TCA’s 2016 National Convention, as one of the Convention’s layout tours. So, as a teaser, you have an advance opportunity to see his fabulous layout on December 6th.
Glen’s home -along with his layout- was one of eight featured sites included in Rice Design Alliance’s 38th Annual Architectural Tour, which took place earlier this year.
As Glen’s Layout is also scheduled for a future article in Classis Toy Trains Magazine, as a courtesy to Glen and his relationship with CTT, please refrain from posting any photos that you take on the internet or providing them for publication in any form.
Hope you can make this great event on December 6th. Please contact Glen to reserve your spot.
Best regards,
Al Kolis
President Elect & Special Events Manager
Lionel Collectors Club of America
248 709-4137
agkolis@comcast.net
Dec 5-31, 2014 - Meet Lionel Artist Angela Trotta Thomas - Charleston, SC
LCCA member, Angela Trotta Thomas (RM 13961) will be promoting Lionel trains and her original Lionel Art during an art gallery exhibition in Charleston, SC on Friday, December 5, 2014. Angela will be showing new paintings of Lionel Trains at her art exhibition at Coco Vivo Gallery, 25 Broad Street, Charleston, SC. Come and meet with Angela from 5:00 - 8:00 PM. Bring your Angela Trotta Thomas boxcars and catalogs and she will be happy to sign them for you!
The show, "Lionel Memories!" will open Thanksgiving weekend and Angela will be present for the First Friday art walk on December 5th. It will be open to the public through the end of the year. Angela will exhibit a collection of original oils depicting nostalgic toy train art. Many paintings depicting Lionel train memories throughout the century An exciting COCO VIVO Christmas window scene will feature the Angela Trotta Thomas Signature Express toy train set traveling through a holiday snowy village. Angela’s powerful images are a mixture of Lionel trains, childhood, and the holiday season. This year’s Lionel operating toy train layout in the front window will be even bigger than last year’s display. This layout will feature an Angela Trotta Thomas train consisting of her Lionel engine and boxcars. This layout will help introduce Lionel trains to the people of Charleston, SC during the holiday season. If you are in the area during the holiday season, stop on by and see and experience the magic of Lionel trains on this operating train display.
Join this Jingle & Mingle holiday event and relive the memories of Christmases past. Angela will be handing out and signing the latest Lionel Christmas catalog. Angela’s latest artworks draw on memories of Lionel trains and a simpler time. She is creating still life paintings that combine Lionel trains with period objects that evocatively freeze time. Many paintings will depict Lionel trains of the era, and children playing with their favorite trains.
For more detailed information, please contact Angela at attart@aol.com
Tis the season to enjoy Lionel Trains!
Al Kolis
President Elect & Special Events Manager
Lionel Collectors Club of America
248-709-4137
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