I saw a reference to this on a different thread and was hoping some OGR forum people would know if this was true or not?
That would definitely alter my travel plans.
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Yup, it’s definitely canceled.
TRW
The billy budd hasn’t hardly been a show for last 10 years. The main bandit show is the Wyndham which still draws good amount of people especially depending on weather
Somebody posted that the tax collector killed that show? (Although train shows are not growing in quantity or size..)
Jason gartner posted:The billy budd hasn’t hardly been a show for last 10 years. The main bandit show is the Wyndham which still draws good amount of people especially depending on weather
Suppose it's raining? 
@aussteve, take a look at pg 21 of Clem's primer:
No show this October. Banquet hall is unavailable and Rich is looking for another location.
Clems Primer: http://tcaetrain.org/2d-articl...Primer_FALL_2019.pdf
OK. What is the Billy Budd bandit train show?
Hal
HMS2035 posted:OK. What is the Billy Budd bandit train show?
Hal
See the link BMORAN4 posted above to "Clem's York Primer".
The "Bandit" meets (though not called that in the Primer, see "30.NON -TCA SPONSORED TRAIN SHOWS DURING YORK WEEK") are swap meet events happening earlier in the week before the main TCA meet at the fairgrounds.
The "Billy Budd" has been located at what is now a Days Inn (Google Map link) on Route 30, a few miles to the East of Carlisle road (location of the Fairgrounds). I believe the naming came about from a previous name for the motel. It used to be a Holiday Inn (as did the Wyndham Garden referred to above), and they used to go by "Billy Budd" and "Holidome" to be able to easily differentiate between the 2 Holiday Inn locations. I have no idea if "Billy Budd" was ever formally the name of the motel or not.
-Dave
When I first went to York in the late 80's the Wyndham was a Sheraton and the Billy Budd was a Holiday Inn. Holiday Inn supposedly bought the Billy Budd a few years before. The two venues were known as the Sheraton and the Billy Budd at that time. There was also a very poorly lit ballroom in downtown York with a bandit meet.
