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Getting money to your favorite Railway Museum..

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Getting money to your favorite Railway Museum..
Posted by CMStPnP on Tuesday, March 24, 2020 8:03 PM

Hey so I was online today and read up on the Amazon Smile program.    You can designate your favorite charity and a small portion of your purchases will be donated to your favorite charity.    Well I found out on their list of charities the Illinois Railway Museum was listed so I selected that.    So now a small portion of my future total purchases will go to the Illinois Railway Museum as a donation.    I think it is a good program but you have to purchase from the www.amazonsmile.com website it says.    Not sure why the seperate website and I really did not read into the program or do price compares to see if I was paying more for what I was purchasing as I don't make a lot of purchases from Amazon.

Thought I would bring to everyones attention because these type of affiliate programs are a painless way to get some of you to donate money to some of these museums that maybe financially hurting during this time of everyone being a shut-in.

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Posted by CMStPnP on Wednesday, April 29, 2020 7:05 AM

Just an update, so Illinois Railway Museum got $3020 in donations from Amazon Smile just for the month of February 2020 according to Amazon.   So we need to get more folks to sign up for this worthwhile program.

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Posted by seppburgh2 on Thursday, April 30, 2020 5:27 PM
The Morris County Central Railroad Museum is another one listed for Amazon Smiles.
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Posted by GERALD L MCFARLANE JR on Thursday, April 30, 2020 7:18 PM

FYI, pricing is the same as the regular Amazon website per the programs FAQ page.

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