WHY DO YOU LIKE YORK?

I has a very nice oyster festival in October, otherwise why would you bother with the place.

It's the closest experience I've found to the magic of Christmas morning.  

 

- Mike

Nobody asks: Why do you want that? Where are you going to put it?

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They don't ask how, they ask how many!

just about the most fun you can have without getting arrested

I would say it is meeting all the people and making new friends.

Having fun and learning so much more.

Of course the trains. But meeting old and new friends is a big part of the experience.

Some we would never meet without this and other forums.

Jim1939

I agree! I was parked outside of the Blue Hall this morning, reading a book in the car while waiting for the opening. I glanced in my rearview mirror and saw a SUV, with NY plates, containing  some young boys in the back. They looked like they were waiting for Santa. Later I was walking the aisles in back of a dad with his young daughter. She was smiling and pointing things out. I think that spirit rubs off on many of us.

 

 

For the s as me reasons already posted!

-Greg

Things are things, and we all like our things; however, it is the people in our lives that give the things depth and meaning. York has plenty of both.

FrankM

Friends, Seeing The Manufacturers Displays in Person, All the Trains of our Past. Enjoying the Fantacies of Our Childhood 1 More Time. Friendsips Renewed, a Learning Experience Second to None. It's just Plain Fun.

I see my dad there, he died in 97.  Our last York was April 96.  20  words is tough.

woojr, GOD BLESS YOU AND YOUR DAD.

Only decent show for Standard Gauge.  Talking to the members is fun too!

 

Guys forgive me for this but I have only been on this site and in O gauge for 4 months now and I know York is a train show but how far would you go to see this show?

Is this something I should start planning for next year???

Thanks Mike

1 - see people that I don't otherwise see

2 - see and occasionally buy rare trains that are seldom seen elsewhere

 

I drive about six hours one way. I would not drive two to get to a public train show such as a Greenberg's or a Worlds Greatest Train show.

Visiting and catching up with my friends. The trains.

 

Peter

I get good and tinely information from friends and members of this forum - just about everything I want to know about what manufacturers is coming out with what new 44-ton scale switcher, etc., - - - and I don't actually have to make the trip.  

The number one place to buy almost anything you need for the hobby.  New Ideas, friends, education, etc...

Meeting internet friends and vendors

Happy, smiling people

Great train deals

Scrapple!

Natty Boh Beer

 

Lee, you just wouldn't understand!

 

Gilly

 

Hookers, (the chemical tank cars)

Vacation days and trains and time away with FRIENDS

If you can, yes. You'll never experience anything like this anywhere else. And, just to sweeten the deal I'll buy you a beer!

 

Gilly

Friends, latest information, and great workout walking and looking.  Hunting for a bargain or two, or three......

Is there anything not to like about York????

I go for on thing----to have fun!

Friends, trains, great times, friends, trains, pure enjoyment. Did I mention friends and trains.

 

 

Alex

The airports. I live in California.

Everybody and everything!!!!!!! Its RR Paradise with great people!!!

Trains trains and more trains!

Friends, fun and trains.  In that order.  As others have said, York brings me the same feeling of Joy that a kid feels on Christmas morning - and it lasts for several days and happens twice a year!

 

Andy

It is the thrill of the hunt.  Whether it is to find a good price on a train item produced

last week, or to spot a truly rare something you are educated on in a junk box, made

fifty years ago.  Far too often it is to find something that cannot be found locally, but

is often there in spades.

Having a model on display and having guys that worked in the industry of the model tell stories of working in that industry and give me information on  what is right and wrong about the model,  having some one tell me how to get the lights working on a new tmcc engine that I thought I destroyed the headlights.  sorry more then 20 words.

I love a challenge.  We, (Fort Pitt High Railers), displayed our best modular layout and it was well accepted.  IMO

Thanks to all who viewed our layout. 

 Mike CT  

Boy...if that isn't the truest statement ever made on this forum...I don't know what is ?

like my car and motorcycle friends always say,If you have to ask you probably wouldn't understand it.

John K

York is a gathering of people that share a common interest. The largest such gathering. It is a community for those three days, with great commorardie, and what fun. 

Personally greeting old and new friends, shaking their hands and looking them in the eye when conversing. Same goes with dealers and manufactures.

Gee..isn't Lee now in North Carolina, which isn't that far from York.....closer than

my long drag up the Turnpike, which he would not have to do...Last Ocober York I

left it to make a tour down along the coast, through N.C. to Nag's Head, out on

a ferry to some island, and then down to Charleston and Savannah....that trip was

shorter than the drag from here to York, for sure, and longer that any place in N.C.

to York.  It is sorta the place a train person should see once....fairly warned that once

might not be enough.