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I'm going to the TCA train show in York, PA. We'll have a table for TM DVDs and books.....well I won't technically won't be running the table (just giving bathroom breaks), but I going with the guy that is. Hope to see some of you there. This my first time going. Getting there Tuesday to set up and sight see and leaving Sunday.

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Eddie, I think you and John are both right.

If you see friends and talk in the presence of trains, then it's probably a train meet.

If the merchandise on the tables is way too expensive, then maybe it's a train show.

I don't know what it is called if someone has trains for sale at a reasonable price and a buy/sell transaction takes place.

I think at York, all three of those scenarios will be taking place.

English is both a rigid and hard to understand language some times and it is also a very fluid one too with rules that don't always make sense, just ask anyone who had to learn it as a second language. A meet, show, event, flea market or what have you at one time probably had a solid well defined meaning and each had it's primary purpose but over the years they have evolved and added to and subtracted from what they originally were so the lines are kind of blurred. For all intents and for our needs they are all one and the same, I've never been to a show that only had trains to look at unless it was a public display somewhere during the Christmas season(and I don't count them as shows) and I've been to meets that had trains you can buy and also trains to look at. Now granted a meet will be mostly people of a certain like mentality who are members of an organization but a lot of meets are open to anyone with an interest in whatever it is the only real difference is probably the size and scope of the events. To me a show is a meet is a show.

 

Jerry

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