This coming October's York TCA Meet...any...

My prediction:

Those who attend the show will have a great time.

There will be lots of sour grapes posts here, criticizing the show's rules and the TCA in general.

I am planning to be there.

Since I go to York on one of the chartered buses from Long Island I can predict I'll see and talk to many friends, have a great time, buy some goodies and enjoy the York experience! I'll also enjoy sleeping on the bus on the way home since I'll be exhausted !!            Lenny J

I will be bringing 2 newbies........I predict they will be overwhelmed!

Peter

Nothing can stop me from having fuN, seeing friends and talking till I Can't. 

Maybe SNOW?

I just hope that the weather will be good all week.

Trainpop makes at least a one day cameo appearance back at Vince's Trains in the Orange Hall!

I sure hope so! 

Hello everyone,

This past spring York Meet was my wife's and I first time attending the show.

Had a great time and met some very down to earth train people.

Most vendors very professional and had the attitude can I show you my product or can I help you.

We are planning on attending the meet in October and I am sure we are going to have a great time and meet more people that is into the great hobby.

Mark Strittmatter

TCA Member # 14-69917

No predication, just a fact, I will get rained on very heavy at some point during the week

I predict that I will come down at least one of the three days, and spend more money than I planned to.

Well, looking back over the last few Yorks, I can take little money, because I will find

little, but I will walk and walk and walk.  I predict my hopes for new and exciting

prototypes from mfrs. in the Orange Hall will be dashed again.

Way to go out on a limb with that prediction Kreskin!

Jerry

quote:

Well, looking back over the last few Yorks, I can take little money, because I will find little, but I will walk and walk and walk. 

Me too. But the trip isn't about buying trains any more. Its the conversation on the ride down and back. And running into people I know at the show. I'd say my big purchase at the last show was an NOS 671RM-2 brush plate.

If you like that one, I'm going on tour with my latest prediction: The leaves will change colors and fall from the trees 

There will be road construction on Route 30.

- Mike

People will walk the wrong direction.

Santa will make an appearance Friday.

I will thank Mike Wolf for great Reading models and encourage him to make more.

I will urge Lionel to model Baldwin high-pressure 3-cylinder compound 4-10-2 No. 60000 in The Franklin Institute, Philadelphia.

I will visit OGR. I may ask to rub Ed Boyle's head for good luck, depending on his mood.

I will take my seat for the OGR presentations in the grandstand.

I will miss the wooden sheds that were removed a while ago. They afforded shady places to park.

Our state flower is the orange cone.

Best part of going to York is meeting up with all of our friends from around the country. We have 18 for dinner on Thursday.

That I think is what makes it a great time.

Good one, Mike & David. I told my wife what you guys said, here, and she got a good chuckle out of it, esp. considering she has been with me on that gruesome stretch of Rt30 from Lancaster to York at TCA Meet time.

FrankM.

Notwithstanding that the whole venue is a marketplace, and even considering that I am a vendor, I have to agree with you.

If life is only about the acquisition of things, that's a bit dubious, IMHO. However, sharing such an experience as the hunt - the adventure - many of us are on as we search for treasures, long-desired and/or newly pined-for, at TCA's Meet 2x's a year, then we have something worth our collective and individual while. IMHO.

The acquaintances and friends, customers and clients I have experienced over the twelve Meets I have attended have, indeed, made the whole effort and adventure worth it. I value and treasure them all.

FrankM

So the leaves will change colours,,

then money will change hands........

and thursdays used to be at/in  fridays...but....

has been re-directed to tuesdays

  what the h^ll is going on at these Yorks?

i gotta go again to find out!!!!!!!!!!!!

Dave,

Only you could come up with something like that. We used to call our former superintendent "Traffic Cone". All he did was sit in his office! The only time we saw him Move, was to walk get a double free lunch everyday at the cafeteria.

Don

I've attended ~20 Yorks ... which isn't too shabby since we live in SoCal.

But, for the first time, my wife will attend with me.  This will be an excellent York!

I won't even begin to describe how I've gotten her to attend.  

Always positive? See you in 41 days and counting down!

I will go out on a limb....

• The sun will rise
• The sun will set
• We may see neither if it is raining
• We will all enjoy, overall, even if there is traffic, rain, wrong-way walking people, etc.

Jerry