How do you prepare for York?

Hotel reservation, agenda (well prepared), train inventory list, checkbook and wallet. What else could one need?

 

Gerry

Don't forget your OGR thong! 

I start wearing my TCA name tag starting April 1st.  I don't take it off til Saturday of YORK week at about 2 PM.  Sometimes it leaves a ring around the collar.  But I got 6 months to get over it.

Always start with a shopping list., Auto Maintenance for the 5 hour drive. Make sure Cracked Barrel is still there (Hamburg is about the 1/2 way point) for Thursday breakfast. Make sure my travel companions remember to get to my house early.

cant wait.

On a nice Spring day ...

 

 

Call my sister in Maryland, just across the border to make arrangements to stay at her place. Spend as many Saturdays as necessary making and packing loads. Make dinner arrangements for a group of friends that meet on Thursday and Friday. Coordinate with Weaver models to hopefully have a sample club car at York for members from another forum to see. Hope that my legs and back can hold up to the three days of holding down my ten by ten slab of concrete floor! I no longer have any more space to store trains, so I don't have a wish list to prepare. I usually just look for rolling stock for birthday and Christmas gifts. I already wear a badge everyday at work, so wearing my York badge is out!

Don

I'm preparing by "practicing" my walking.  Now that we are blessed with an occasional mild day, and being on my own without my beloved pooch, I try to get in as much walking as possible since walking is also part of the York experience.  Just finished 3-1/2 miles this afternoon walking with a neighbor.  Five would have been nice, but just like at York, I was getting hungry.  

 

 

We make our lodging reservation in Lancaster about three months before the meet, pack, fill the wallet with cash, gas up and head out for the 2:40 hr trip. We always arrive on Wednesday and this allows us some time to shop, relax , unwind, take a train ride, and meet up with some good friends for an Amish dinner. The meet is just one part of the York experience.

Unfortunately because of work, I can only go on Saturday, but the routine is the same:

 

1. Make parts list

2. Fill wallet and bring check book

3. Bring alligator wires to test accessories

4. Bring badge

5. Wear comfortable shoes

6. Pack snack for the trip

7. Fill gas tank and charge ipod for trip

8. Set alarm clock

9. Bring map of fairgrounds

Tell the CEO that York is a national holiday twice a year so I prepare 6 months in advance. She knows better than to plan anything on those days. And tell my sales manager that April and October Thursday/Friday are forbidden work days!

I'm preparing for October. Still replenishing my wallet from my last encounter with Vince's Trains! Absolutely an awesome deal, but I left myself with snack money five minutes after the doors opened. I may walk around for a few minutes next time before going to see Trainpop!

 

I've got one case of Natty Boh left that I'm going to try to nurse until October! 

 

Gilly

Car is ready.  Number 1 is Dotty,  Bring clothes for two seasons, lots of cash, trains I have to bring for people, cell phone and laptop chargers, computer, camera, cell phone with York friends set to favorites, hotel reservations always made one year out and last a new Mapquest route Gerry Morlitz wants me to try.  After going to York for 34 years and driven many ways. I am always open to a change.

I've been training for the night time festivities......

 

With only 1 week to go until the opening bell it's time to get my game-face on. I will make ready by eating Scrapple every day, but never the same way twice. Day One of my Scrapple-A-Day program will include: Srapple and Eggs (Over medium).

I stand by the OGR forum a few days before and see if there are any good deals.

sadly dream of going there is nothing comparable in the Midwest, unless your into ho. well here comes my concrete truck so time to bend over

I have my list of things not to forget out and ready. My luggage is out. I will start packing tomorrow Friday, and Sunday at 8am we are on our way.

Safe travels, Eddie.

 

Peter

Get the suitcase packed the night before.

Have the soda, plenty of rum, beer and chips packed with my official rum glass.

Have the cash ready the day before by making sure the finances are ready.

Leave home for 3 days.

My brother lives about 8 miles away. Will be staying with him. Going Friday this year instead of Saturday - (what a bust)...

 

Wonder how early I need to be there for decent parking?

 

Taking a limit of cash and that is it.

Dead presidents, many different portraits in large quanities.  

 

Go mid day for better deals. Not that crowded these days.  Don't care what I missed if I did not see it. 

 

Take along some stuff I may trade in.

Don't forget a pocketful of quarters so you can tip the porter in the bathroom. Usually 50 cents per whistle stop will do.

50 cents a whistle stop?

Dennis- did you give them a pay raise this time around. LOL!

Now I feel like a Rockefeller...I drop a whole buck each time

---PCJ

I try to forget the fact that I can't go.  Then look forward to the feedback from Forum members on what I missed.

Ditto!  Thoae guys work hard at a thankless job and most all of them have really great attitudes...fun to chat with.

 

Of course, even at my advanced age I don't need to use the facilities nearly as often as some of you guys. 

From the responses on this thread and others like it, I decided that the first thing to do would be to read the rules. I see that we can't take photographs. Even though I don't understand it, I will of course comply. I will just have be satisfied taking a lot of Video. See everyone in York!

If I'm not mistaken, videography falls into the "photography" category. 

My post wasn't 100% serious...I didn't really read the rules!

 

Thanks for looking out for me though. I won't be taking photos or video. Hopefully I'll take back some special find and/or some new friends.

Dude, you just made me vomit a little

Packed!

 

 

 

Peter

I thought I was ready, until I got an e mail yesterday afternoon, so I had to prepare a last minute order!

Don