Mallard4468 posted:Maybe folks on the east coast are spoiled. I've often driven 3.5 hours each way for a good train meet, and I've known people to drive much farther than that. If you draw a 3 hour circle around the largest train meet on the planet, it includes a lot of people.
If you draw a 2 hour circle around York, the "public" has about 20 train shows to attend each year. Most of these are Greenberg shows, Timonium Scale shows, Allentown, and local TCA shows (public admitted 1 hour after opening). In fact, 6 of these shows are within a half hour of York. Bottom line: the "public" is not "starved" for train shows in SE Pennsylvania.
Hopefully, if the public shows up at TCA York, they may decide to join the TCA so that they can get into all 6 buildings rather than just 2. On the other hand, most non-member train people are into HO or N gauges. Slim pickings at York for those.
