jerseyjoea,
Some info here:
http://cgi.ebay.com/Lionel-Uncatalogued-TCA-Committee-Car-Autographed-MIB_W0QQitemZ320120675712QQcmdZViewItem
and here:
https://www.angelatrottathomas.com/newhome.html
Other's are correct, that is Angela Trotta Thomas' signature on your car.
A sharpie on a boxcar signs slightly different than a paintbrush on canvas when that is your profession, I think, but I believe it's her signature. :)
Her website
As to the car itself, I think the referenced ebay auction is talking it up a bit. You will find these for sale (perhaps less the signature) relatively often at large train meets. I am pretty sure there were more than 200 made. I would guess just by how many seen and how long they were available that it is probably at least twice that.
There is a more scarce version of this car that was made for committee members as the referenced ebay link claims, but it has a different graphic on the right side. It has a pic of a skeleton at a drawing board (cobwebs, etc) and says something about the "last revision". This was supposed to indicate how involved it was when they expanded the museum, which is what this car is commemorating to begin with.
Only place I have seen one of these is in the museum itself, it is in the display with all the other museum cars around the special kit-bashed (by the manufacturer, for TCA) model of the museum they have.
-Dave
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