Good evening Forum Members,
Thank you for your kind words. We are awaiting the cost of an HO scale "Steam Up LIRR 39" boxcar at this moment. Once we have that information we will be promoting the car through Social Media, our website and the several HO scale magazines. I anticipate we will be taking pre-orders for the HO car in February 2017.
A specific Engine 39 fundraising Lionel "O" Gauge Collectible "Blue Boy" boxcar will be marketed in 2018. The Museum will be releasing two Lionel Collectibles in 2017, but the funds raised from those cars will go to the Museum, its exhibits, programs and the Historic Lionel Layout from Chesterfield, MI. Watch for those offerings on this Forum, the TCA HQ Newsletter, Classic Toy Trains and O Gauge Railroading magazines.
Additional fundraising items include Engine #39 Christmas Tree Ornaments, tee shirts, decorated railroad spikes, new, 1980's staybolt caps and sleeves from the locomotive http://www.jameswerner.net/rml...ybolt_Order_Form.pdf and a book, written by retired LIRR engineer Mark Smith, available through Amazon https://www.amazon.com/My-Life...motive/dp/1492869090
JOHN NEWBERGER, we tried the social media fundraising route. We had a goal of $20,000.00 and we succeeded in attracting only $250.00 within our time period. We haven't tried it again. From watching other restoration projects on Kickstarter and Go Fund Me, steam locomotives are a tough sell - for all the same reasons I've mentioned earlier in this thread.
Again, thank you for your positive thoughts and comments, we continue to move forward!!
Don