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Post by Sir James on Oct 24, 2020 13:50:17 GMT
By now we would be on the Pa turnpike, Michigan bound and down. Our trips home always meant a stop somewhere. Mercer Jct, Pat's trains, ect. I'm not sure if we did Horseshoe Curve on the way there or on the way home. Charlie's much younger than me, he would remember.
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Post by rockymountaineer on Oct 25, 2020 0:45:04 GMT
Fond memories of the Yellow Hall under the Grandstand. That's where I first met Mike Wolf selling his Fairbanks Morse Train Master locomotives. I was floored that a company was offering Lionel-style trains that were compatible with O-Gauge track and transformers at affordable prices. Keep in mind.... that was a time when only Lionel postwar FM's were on the secondary market for stratospheric prices in their day -- pushing $500+. (Ironically, Lionel FM's nowadays are just about priced there.)
Dunham Studios also had a small booth in the Yellow Hall, and that was the first time I met Clarke and Barbara Dunham. I was already familiar with the highly successful Citibank Station in NYC that put Dunham Studios on the map, but I had never met any of those talented artisans. Little did I know back then some 25+ years later I'd be commissioning Dunham Studios to build a layout for me.
I also remember the Gold Hall, where Bill Benson of Right-of-Way fame set up a layout to showcase his products. I never purchased any of those, but his York display layout was basic yet impressive.
Speaking of impressive display layouts at York, MTH wins the prize with the display layout they'd bring for several consecutive shows that often garnered lots of attention to the tune of 3 or 4 rows deep of attendees. Sadly back in those days, the EDTCA didn't allow pictures -- even in the Orange Hall, where MTH had set up their booth. The EDTCA honchos back then were so pig-headed, they wouldn't even allow magazines to promote the hobby with pictures of MTH's wonderfully scenic'd display railroad running multiple trains simultaneously. Gotta wonder some days what the heck they were THINKING. Oh wait... pardon me.... they WEREN'T thinking.
And let's not forget some relatively recent years... circa 2012-2015 when I'd bring my SUV with its cargo bay filled to the hilt with product I had sold via my "virtual York bandit meets", the first of their kind back in those days. To save shipping costs for buyers, I often brought product on Thursday morning and arranged deliveries by 12 Noon... so we were all free to hit the halls when the doors opened at 12 Noon sharp.
The most recent memories of York were those where old and new friendships eventually exceeded being blown away by toy train overload. The Olive Garden dinners were always a highlight, and I can't wait to attend one at the next "in-person" York show... which I'm guessing will likely be October 2021 if we're lucky.
York will always be a source of fun memories for me.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 25, 2020 21:55:04 GMT
Paula has enjoyed York a number of times and also our grandsons. It has been fun to introduce them to the hobby like this and to see them meet wonderful people.
I won’t forget Paula’s first thirty minutes at the show. Walk in, make a turn, “We have to have one of these.”
She wasn’t telling me, she was talking to Al about a turntable; bought it too.
The boys still ask about Mr Crabcake and Mrs Jennifer, Mr Andre, and the nice lady, Mrs Vickie, who ,”feeds me whatever she has.”
The MTF and OGF groups have been like family and seeing them at York has meant a great deal. Fortunately the vehicle has never broken down coming back home due to being overloaded.
Sure hope that it is no later than October next year.
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Post by Adam on Oct 25, 2020 22:03:01 GMT
What about all of your favorite finds? Normally the few days after York their is a really fun flood of people showing us what they got. I always enjoy those posts.
What is your favorite find from York?
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Post by MichRR714 on Oct 25, 2020 22:15:36 GMT
SJ, We did the curve on the way out. On our way home we stopped at Pat's more than once and also Mercer Jct.
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Post by Sir James on Oct 26, 2020 2:47:44 GMT
Thanks Charlie I knew the others it was the curve I wasn't sure about.
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Post by JDaddy on Oct 26, 2020 17:32:37 GMT
Well to wrap it all up I would be back at work, counting the days until next York and running my new trains!
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Post by Traindiesel! on Oct 27, 2020 2:42:11 GMT
What about all of your favorite finds? Normally the few days after York their is a really fun flood of people showing us what they got. I always enjoy those posts. What is your favorite find from York? Adam, all of them!!
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Post by JDaddy on Oct 27, 2020 3:00:29 GMT
Strasburg was always allot of fun...
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Post by JDaddy on Oct 27, 2020 3:01:44 GMT
And a visit to Pottsville!!!!
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Post by joeh on Oct 27, 2020 15:55:55 GMT
My first trip (only 2 hours) to York was around 1984 to get trains and scenics to build a Christmas layout. This has remained pretty much the same every year since 1986. Then came the time gap of no TCA membership as we put 4 kids through college (3 at the same time for 2 years). The birth of a grandson in 2004 got me back into playing with trains, building 2 layouts, and York, since I now had a "train buddy". For the past 4 years I have not been buying much. I just enjoy walking the aisles of the greatest train meet on earth. Attachments:
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Post by Deleted on Oct 28, 2020 17:48:17 GMT
My first York was April 1979. I was 10. Up to that point, all I knew as a kid was Dad would disappear to this place called York twice a year and come home with trains, so I figured it had to be a great place.
Here are a few of my favorite York memories: --a day off from school (you read that right: my Dad pulled me out of school for a day to go to a train meet) --breakfast at the Midway Diner on Friday morning. --dinner Friday night at Moser's, which is long-gone --going back to our table in the Blue Hall Friday evening after dinner, back before the halls closed at 5 pm. --staying at the Ramada Inn, and going downstairs to the restaurant Friday night with Dad and Uncle Fred, where they would each get a "glass of tomato juice." --Friday night auction --visiting Strasburg on the way home. --being Dad's "bird dog" while I walked the aisles.
Here we are, over 40 years later, and I still love the York experience. Dad has been gone for 19 years, but the memories are vivid and priceless, and no one can take them away.
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