Dave NYC Hudson PRR K4 posted:Mark Boyce posted:Dave NYC Hudson PRR K4 posted:I want to hit April mainly for two reasons, I haven't been there in April, and for the good friends I have met there during the last three October York's. I enjoy talking to everyone I meet, even if it is a scarce few minutes. Last year someone was asking me about the coat I was wearing. I couldn't remember what the company name was I bought it from(US Wings out in Ohio), but told him that the company was run by a Vietnam Vet. I wished I could have told him the company name, but I was scatterbrained.
I was certainly glad to see you Dave when you walked up to me in front of the Orange Hall I believe!! I was there that October and went the following April. Those are the only two I attended, and was blown away by both October and April. The largest meet I had ever been to before that were the Greenberg shows in Monroeville (near Pittsburgh) and I get the idea those are some of the smaller Greenberg shows.
Having only attended twice, those in recent years, and only staying for two days each, I have no opinion on what the two day event will be like. We will have to wait and see.
Heck I can't rightly remember, I just know we all had a blast that October getting out to Peter's breakfast and chatting up a storm about everything we heard was coming. I remember being overwhelmed just seeing everything. I can't even remember how many pictures I took that first time, but I do know I've taken less the more I've come back. Hopefully everything works out and we all get out there.
I do know this past October there was a bunch of discussions on what all the nightlife would be with the shorter days. That is going to be the hardest thing to get ironed out. I think Don had said that two groups would meet a day after each other, now they'd be meeting on the same day and same time. I guess we'll all see what comes.
I've mentioned elsewhere that Marty Fitzhenry invited me to sit in the empty seat beside him at Peter's breakfast and gave me some tips for my first time at York. I was overwhelmed too. I took some photographs of the old buildings and grandstands, but didn't take any indoors. The city of York has a lot of buildings older than here in Western Pennsylvania.
I enjoyed the OGR supper at Quaker Steak and Lube each time I went, once in October, then the following April. I sat with some of the guys I know from the Pittsburgh Independent HiRailers each time, in fact shared a room with Andy Hummel. To me, both meets seemed about the same. Great!!! 
