Railroad Museum of Long Island Spring 2017 Lionel Collectible Car

Thanks for the "like" Stu, we're working on a surprise 2017 fall-winter car right now.  All I can tell you is it will be a sweet delight!!  :-)

Don

I'm in for one of these. I assume the order form is the only way to order, no online ordering? Is a confirmation letter or email sent once the order form is received?

Hi SJC,

At this time we only accept the completed order form that you download and print from the website.  There will also be a bulk mailing to current members once the order forms return from the printer.  We are overhauling the website right now and the new site WILL allow on-line orders and payment by PayPal.  Coming soon :-)

If you would like a receipt e-mailed to you, just write a note on the order form and be sure to put your e-mail address on the form.  I'll be happy to let you know you order has arrived.  Normally we assume your cancelled check or credit card statement to be your receipt, but I'll be happy to e-mail you.

Thanks for your support and interest,

Don Fisher,  President

Those are some smart looking locomotives there SJC!!  Next time you're out East, e-mail me, we work at the Museum on Tuesdays and Saturdays year round.  As long as I know you're coming I'd be happy to get you on the G-16 for another ride :-)

Don

Don   Great job will be ordering mine when form arrives.

n2qhvRMLI posted:

Those are some smart looking locomotives there SJC!!  Next time you're out East, e-mail me, we work at the Museum on Tuesdays and Saturdays year round.  As long as I know you're coming I'd be happy to get you on the G-16 for another ride :-)

Don

Don,

Will do, thank you!

This is great! Being a longtime Long islander (but recently moved away), I have enjoyed every boxcar issued that was LI business specific (like the King Kullen boxcar). Might we see a Northville tank car in the future?  Anyway, my North Fork Potato boxcar order will be in shortly. 

Thank you BWANABOB and Thank you LENNY!

We'll have to take the idea of a Northville Industries tank car under consideration BWANABOB!!   Right now we are in the graphics stage of the 2017 Fall-Winter (Christmastime) car.   I can tell you that it too will be a boxcar decorated for a very famous - to this day - sweet commodity that was created and made from two different locations on Long Island, and received material shipments from the Long Island Rail Road!  Our kind of car

Don

From your hint I'm guessing either Snapple or Kozy Shack.  But maybe you'll totally surprise me.  Looking forward to both North Fork chips and the mystery car.

Nice Car!  I'll make sure to order by the deadline.

I wonder for the "future" car if it may be one of the popular farm-stands that might specialize in various pies, or maybe one of the places that makes cider.  Hard to guess if one might be more universally remembered by all than the others though  (I know occasionally some of them get visited by News 12 in their "East End" shows).

I remember a few of the names of ones I visited with my parents as a kid, but not sure if many of them still exist or have changed hands, etc.

-Dave

Anyone in for a Long Island "BIG DUCK" car?

Paul

Railrunnin posted:

Anyone in for a Long Island "BIG DUCK" car?

Paul

I'd be a buyer. Need something sweet? I'll do a Tate's Bake Shop car as well.......

Dave45681 posted:

Nice Car!  I'll make sure to order by the deadline.

I wonder for the "future" car if it may be one of the popular farm-stands that might specialize in various pies, or maybe one of the places that makes cider.  Hard to guess if one might be more universally remembered by all than the others though  (I know occasionally some of them get visited by News 12 in their "East End" shows).

I remember a few of the names of ones I visited with my parents as a kid, but not sure if many of them still exist or have changed hands, etc.

-Dave

Briermere Farms.   I'm drooling at the thought.

BwanaBob posted:

Briermere Farms.   I'm drooling at the thought.

Exactly the one I was thinking about for the pies!   (though it's probably almost 30 years since I was last there)

-Dave

BwanaBob posted:

Dave45681 posted:

Nice Car!  I'll make sure to order by the deadline.

I wonder for the "future" car if it may be one of the popular farm-stands that might specialize in various pies, or maybe one of the places that makes cider.  Hard to guess if one might be more universally remembered by all than the others though  (I know occasionally some of them get visited by News 12 in their "East End" shows).

I remember a few of the names of ones I visited with my parents as a kid, but not sure if many of them still exist or have changed hands, etc.

-Dave

Briermere Farms.   I'm drooling at the thought.

Only if it comes with a pie and apple dumpling!

Sorry folks, I can't give it away just yet!!  Good guesses though, but not even warm, (like a fresh baked Briermere Farm pie)!!   I'll give another hint, the sweet product is a favorite all across our Nation, not just on Long Island. 

The Big Duck Museum are good friends of the Museum . . . . . . . . . never say never!!

I love Tate's Bakery's chocolate chip cookies, they're my favorite!  But not this time

Don

PS, Briermere Farm is still going strong thirty years later DAVE45681!!

I'd buy a scale big duck to sit trackside for sure!

We make a point of going to Briermere when we come to visit in Suffolk.

Sweet product mystery...another Entenmann's?  What's left, a caboose?

BWANABOB, in all fairness I'm pretty sure the Entenmann's franchise sits with METCA right now.  I'll let Brother Stu, (NOT LionelLLC), comment on that.  I know I would buy an Entenmann's Caboose, I've never missed an Entenmann's car!! 

What about a Lionel quacking Long Island Duckling Car???  Anyone?

Don

It's Official!!  Brother Stu, President of METCA Division, TCA sent in our VERY FIRST mail order for the North Fork Potato Chips boxcar!  Congratulations Stu, I promise to find and send you the #1 Lionel carton when this order arrives at Riverhead!!

Order forms were mailed Monday to those of you who have purchased any of the last three collectible cars from the Museum.  Look for your envelope in the mail this week!

Tonight, our Museum Board had a chance to see a first rendering of that "sweet boxcar" that we'll be offering for Fall 2017.  Stay tuned.

Much excitement around the Museum as the Committee is working overtime right now . . . . . . . . . . we have our first ever HO Scale boxcar in production!!  Bachmann Industries is working on our "Steam Up LIRR 39" boxcar for everyone in the HO hobby who asked for it!  They loved the look of the Lionel SKU 6-58259, but it wouldn't fit on their tracks!!    Watch for the announcement in the HONGZ space, coming soon!

Don Fisher, President

Railroad Museum of Long Island

Don,

Happy to be the first to order, but even more happy to be able to order a nice looking car, and still even more happy than that to be able to support a bunch of people helping to support railroad history.

I am the "former" President of METCA.  My term as expired.  I'm currently Vice President.  METCA is currently led by Kevin Quinn who has much more energy and vision than I.  He also has the personality to make it happen.

Hopefully the orders continue to poor in.  Working on another car already?  That's "sweet".

Stu

Sent my form in last week. Looking forward to getting this. I swore "no more boxcars". Guess that changed....

How about Pindar Wine.  That might make a nice reefer.  BigRail.

The blank form is sitting on the kitchen counter.  I really need to get that mailed in!

My wife is from Riverhead.  She's given me carte blanche to buy anything you guys put out!

Blue Point Oysters?  Modern Snack Bar Soft-Shell Crab Transport?  How about a flat with a Shelter Island Express boat on it?  It's the choice yacht of Billy Joel!  

Jon  

Any time frame on accepting online payment for the North Fork Potato Chips boxcar?

BWANABOB!

Eureka!    It has happened!  Our webmaster last night completed the actions to create the PayPal button on the O gauge, Lionel SKU 6-84958 Collectible North Fork Potato Chip Car!  Go for it.

The HO Scale, "Steam Up LIRR 39" Bachmann Silver Series boxcar will be getting the PayPal treatment next

JOHN D! 

Shout out to your wife from Riverhead!!  When you "come home next" plan to make a visit to the Museum.  We're across the street from REVCO Electrical Supply, right by the LIRR station.  Does she remember NINOW'S Music store or maybe IVAN'S Shoe store!   You'll enjoy seeing the Historic Lionel layout from Chesterfield MI!

METCA "Vice President" Stu!! 

Fine business for Kevin Quinn, President!  A good Irish lad!  Happy St. Paddy's Day to ya all!  Let him know we've got another "Night at the Museum" going on April 1st!  Forum member and noted author, Ron Hollander will be giving the lecture on the history of toy trains, Lionel and the Historic Lionel Layout.  We are honored to have Ron as a new member and working on our committee, he's writing the layout articles for our newsletter, "The Postboy!"  If you have a copy of Ron's book, “All Aboard, The Story of Joshua Lionel Cowen & His Lionel Train Company” and are ever in Riverhead on a Tuesday morning, stop into the Museum and ask Ron to sign your book!!

Happy Training,

Don Fisher, President

Railroad Museum of Long Island

PS, on that "sweet delights" Fall boxcar, we've seen the first set of design drawings, beautiful! 

Don

n2qhvRMLI posted:

 

JOHN D! 

Shout out to your wife from Riverhead!!  When you "come home next" plan to make a visit to the Museum.  We're across the street from REVCO Electrical Supply, right by the LIRR station.  Does she remember NINOW'S Music store or maybe IVAN'S Shoe store!   You'll enjoy seeing the Historic Lionel layout from Chesterfield MI! 

Don,

We have been a few times over our 3 years together.  We were there this summer in fact.  I'm the one who hounded you about the cars that just came in (I think it was the Grown on LI cars, but we've since collected nearly all of them).  I think we may have met you at Greenport on that visit.

Know anyone who has the dimensions/design for the giant duck?  Maybe we can get some 3D printed?

Can't wait to place our order for the "sweet" new car.

Hooray for Paypal!  Purchase made.  Now looking forward to the next announcement.  Didn't see you shoot down either of my last two guesses, but I'll be patient...

As requested, the Big Duck dimensions from Wikipedia:

The building measures 18 feet (5.5 m) wide, 30 feet (9.1 m) long and 20 feet (6.1 m) tall to the top of the head. The duck's eyes are made from Ford Model T tail lights and the interior floor space is confined to 11 feet (3.4 m) by 15 feet (4.6 m).

Don,  can you say when the RMLI Fall 2017 car announcement will be made?

Thanks,

Bob

We already mailed our check in for the North Fork Box Car. Can't wait.  Now I have to wait for the fall/winter surprise! RMLI keep them coming!

Mike

I am 74, a life long Long Islander, and I never heard of North Fork Potato Chips. I prefer Long Island cars that are generally historical, so I am passing on this year's offering. Long Island has abundant history well known to all across Long Island. Why not more cars of historical genre.

I suggest that you consider for future cars:

Camp Upton & 42nd Infantry; MTA's Coney Island Yard; Republic Aviation; Aviation on the Hempstead Plains; Charles Lindberg's Spirit of St. Louis flight; Lunar Excursion Module; World's Fairs of 1939 & 1965; Mile-A-Minute Murphy; Sperry Gyroscope; Marconi's overseas broadcast; Tesla's lab; Coney Island; Pam Am Clippers; Hellgate Bridge; LIRR steam boats; Long Island trolley lines; Vanderbilt Cup Races; Merchant Marine Academy; Teddy Roosevelt; Walt Whitman; Bulova watches; Gatsby's Gold Coast.

BWANABOB!   Design drawings for the next car have been sent to our partner for approval.  We won’t announce the “sweet” Fall Collectible Car until after we close the ordering period for the North Fork Potato Chips car, May 5^th, 2017.

BOBBY OGAGE,  As a life Long Islander do you recall WARNERS Potato Chips?  Their plant was on Sound Avenue north of Riverhead on the way to Baiting Hollow??  Almost 100 years after the potato chip was invented at Saratoga Springs, New York - for a famous railroader, Mr. Warner began in 1952 taking part of his annual potato harvest and making it into Long Island potato chips!!  Those chips became a great L.I. Agricultural Commodity and they were enjoyed so much by Long Islanders that a well know chip company, that we still see today, bought Mr. Warner’s entire factory and chip operation . . . . . WISE Potato Chips!  As I grew up in the 1960’s I still remember riding down Sound Avenue, seeing the big WISE owl sign on the factory and smelling the odor of cooking chips!  Mmmmmm Mmm!

WISE eventually moved their operations off Long Island and the chip factory closed.

In the early twentieth century, Polish immigrants came to America through Ellis Island and many found their way to Eastern Long Island to work on the farms.  Martin Sidor came from Poland to work on farms in Oysterponds, NY – saving his hard earned wages to purchase thirty acres of good land at Mattituck, NY in 1908.  From those humble beginnings, Sidor Farms was born.  Four sons, Martin, John, Barney and Frank continued to grow the farms at Mattituck and planted and harvested cauliflower, sprouts, cabbage, and of course, the famous Long Island Potato.

In 2004, the third generation of Sidor farmers, Martin and Carol, returned the Potato Chip to its place as a great L.I. Agricultural Commodity, the “North Fork Potato Chip!”

Our Spring 2017 Collectible Car celebrates 109 years of family farming on Long Island.  It highlights the connection of agriculture in our region to the Long Island Rail Road, which transported sixty car trains of State-of-Maine seed potatoes to farmers on the East End each year, and in the fall operated one hundred-ten car unit trains of Long Island Potatoes to New York markets and shippers for sale across the United States.

Although the current name: “Sidor’s North Fork Potato Chips” may be from 2004, you cannot dispute the value of a car steeped in sixty-five years of potato chip history on Long Island and one hundred-nine years of family farming, farming that tied in with the railroading history of Long Island.  BOBBY OGAGE, I respect your decision to wave off this year’s RMLI Spring Collectible Car, but I have to disagree on its lack of “historical” significance!

One of the most important decisions our Collectible Car Committee makes, is the theme we will present on our car to relate it to the history of Long Island, a significant Long Island business or an event connected to railroading on Long Island.  I am happy to note that we have created at least six cars that already speak to your ideas!  SKU 6-52498 Fairchild Hiller Container on Flat Car celebrates Republic Aircraft;  SKU 6-58554 RCA Operating Radar Car celebrates Marconi;  SKU’s 6-58227, 6-28579 and 6-58580 celebrate the 1964 – 1965 New York World’s Fair!  Part of the fun in collecting these cars is to look for the long historical threads that sew the history of Long Island together with the companies and events that make our region so interesting!

I thank you for your other ideas and I will save them for consideration for future Collectible Cars!

Don Fisher, President

Railroad Museum of Long Island

Grumman?

Hi TINPLATE ART,

Nassau Lionel Operating Engineers produced a great number of Grumman Corporation Collectible Cars in years past.  (And they did have a flatcar with a Lunar Lander riding on top! :-)  We explored adding Northrup Grumman as a Collectible Car partner a few years ago.  Alas, they showed no interest in promoting their Long Island history through our Collectible Car Program.  Time will tell if Northrup again wishes to highlight their storied past on Long Island. 

Thanks for the ask,

Don

THANK YOU!    Several family members worked for Grumman and my son is currently an airframe design engineer with Northrup Grumman in Melbourne, FL. My cousin joined Grumman decades ago and resigned from Northrup Grumman.

A neighbor did the wiring on the LEMs.