exceed 650 locomotive pairs Production will not Features of the Locomotives

• Die-cast arch bar trucks on tender with operating coupler • Imitation wood tender load on one end • Discrete LCCA markings • Polished nickel style wheels • Short history page about The Great Locomotive Chase • Painted large drive wheels • Maintenance-free motor • Sound system includes steam chuff, bell, whistle, • Limited Edition squealing brakes, & puffing smoke production • First use of high gloss paint on the locos to depict a true certificate 150 Years museum restoration • New style traction • High luster side rods tire for added • Gold or chrome plated (not painted) components, pulling power depending on the locomotive • Special 150th • Headlight with builders plate Anniversary box in the Making ORDER FORM for LCCA Members and Wannabe Members 1862-2012 Limit: One Locomotive Pair • Order Deadline: January 10, 2012 This item cannot be shipped to foreign addresses, except for Canada. Not a Member of LCCA? Send Your Payment This collectible pair of historic locomotives is available for [ ] My check or money order for the total amount of this order is purchase by LCCA members only. However, non-members can enclosed and made payable to “LCCA” with “Loco Pair” join or re-join the club now and simultaneously place an order for written on the memo line. this unique locomotive pair. [ ] Charge the total amount of this order to my credit card as [ ] Membership Dues, one year $ 35.00 shown below. [ ] One-time Initiation Fee ($10) – Waived – [ ] Charge $200 to my credit card now; charge the balance to [ ] Check here if you are a former club member the same credit card when shipped. The initial deposit is and want to re-join LCCA now with your non-refundable to those who fail to complete this two-step “original” member number restored. purchase. Sub-total: $ ______Do the Math Key Points to Remember [ ] One locomotive pair, ONLY $379.95 $ 379.95 • Deadline for ordering: January 10, 2012; or whenever the [ ] ILLINOIS residents only, add 7% IL sales tax 26.60 planned production run is sold out, whichever comes first. [ ] Shipping and Handling within Cont’l U.S. 20.00 • Fair warning – don’t procrastinate! [ ] S&H to AK, HI, & Canada, add $20 to U.S. S&H ______• Expected delivery: August, 2012. Sub-total: $ ______Total (in U.S. funds): $ ______

Pen & ink drawing by Bruce Kay Credit Card Account No. ______Exp. ______A group of Union soldiers hijacked the General locomotive Brand of Card: [ ] Disc [ ] MC [ ] Visa Three-digit Validation Code: ______and a few rail cars while the train was parked Signature: ______for a breakfast stop for passengers. By my signature, I authorize LCCA to charge my account for the amount due according to the terms and conditions cited herein.

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Mail this order form or a photocopy to the best toy train club on the planet: LCCA • Dept “Loco Pair” • P.O. Box 529 • Peru, IL 61354-0529 Order online at: www.lionelcollectors.org at “LCCA Store” page — or by Fax: 815-223-0791 LCCA Presents a Pair of Historic Trains The Great Locomotive Chase or Andrews’ The group hijacked the General locomotive Andrews was tried in Chattanooga and found For the first time ever and in a Raid was a military raid that occurred April 12, and a few rail cars while the train was parked guilty. He was executed by hanging on June 7 in not-to-be-reissued, two-engine set, 1862, in northern Georgia during the American for a breakfast stop for passengers. Along the Atlanta. On June 18, seven others who had been LCCA presents these two famous Civil War. Volunteers from the Union Army way north, Andrews planned to stop and tear up transported to Knoxville and convicted as spies locomotives in the detailed and commandeered a train and took it northwards track, sabotage switches, burn covered bridges, were returned to Atlanta and also hanged. Eight historically accurate paint and color toward Chattanooga, Tennessee, doing as much and send false telegraph messages. successfully escaped, traveled for hundreds of schemes of the originals. Since its damage as possible to the vital Western & miles in pairs, and made it back safely to Union inception, Lionel’s General has been Atlantic Railroad (W&ARR) from Atlanta to The W&ARR conductor, William Allen Fuller, lines. The remaining six were exchanged as a desirable and collectible engine. Chattanooga as they went. and two other men, chased the stolen train, first prisoners of war on March 17, 1863. Produced in many variations, it on foot, then by handcar, and later with other remains the pride and joy of many James J. Andrews, a civilian scout and part-time locomotives – the Yonah, the William R. Smith, The pursuit of Andrews’ Raiders formed the Lionel collectors. spy, proposed a daring raid aimed at destroying and the Texas. As Andrews’ party had cut the basis of the Buster Keaton silent film comedy

the Western and Atlantic Railroad link to Chat- telegraph lines, all train crews, station masters, “The General” of 1926 and a dramatic 1956 As America recognizes and memori- tanooga, thereby isolating the city from Atlanta. and W&ARR management to the north had no Walt Disney film, “The Great Locomotive alizes the many events of the Ameri- He recruited civilian William Hunter Campbell idea that the General had been captured by the Chase”, starring Fess Parker as Andrews. can Civil War of 1861-65, this 150th and 22 volunteer Union soldiers. enemy. Anniversary Set offered exclusively

to LCCA members -- with the Texas The 150th anniversary concept for Finally, at milepost 116.3, north of Ringgold, recognition of these two locomotives & General nameplates, unique Georgia, just a few miles from Chattanooga, finish, and special details -- may of the Great Locomotive Chase was with the locomotive out of fuel, Andrews’ men developed by the Lionel Collectors Club become the most coveted General abandoned the General and scattered. Andrews locomotives ever created. of America and produced exclusively and all of his men were caught, including two for LCCA members by Lionel LLC. who had arrived too late that morning to participate in the raid. Text derived from Wikipedia