Dear Fellow Trainees:
Our next project here at LITTLE (Long Island Toy Train Locomotive Engineers) 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.
Even though the flyer mentions January 10th as the cutoff date, we will extend the deadline for this for another week, so go out in the cold and mail in that check now 'cause like the real Entenmann's, once they are gone, they are gone.
George Faeth, formerly of Grumman Aerospace
Al Schwartz, formerly of NLOE and FDNY
Bob Mintz, formerly of Da Bronx and Longuyland
