With regard to the parking comment above, as I've said elsewhere, I have found parking more crowded Thursday mornings the last several Yorks, than previously. I had better, not good, but better parking Friday morning. I noticed the wider aisles, and the empty tables, too, which seem a contradiction....buyers are showing up, but dealers aren't? When I am lucky, the Strasburg O scale show, and the Timonium scale show are on the weekends of York week. I have attended both before while at York and they are not unattended....has their attendance dropped off? There was a time, when I was finding stuff, that I would attend any train show within reasonable, and sometimes beyond, reasonable reach. If people that close to Timonium KNOW (advertising, flyers, published announcements) the show is going on, they will attend, at least once....maybe not after they discover it is not all HO or N. In this hobby of tinplate trains, and in other hobbies I am familiar with, the people with the interest discover where the big and relevant shows are. I doubt if many will be brought in unless it is well advertised. I am not finding much in York in old trains of interest to me...these seem to have gone to the internet auctions; the few remaining manufacturers seem to have fallen back into the pre-Williams mode....nothing new of interest to me. except for a stray car or two, is being produced. I did not make as many circuits of all the halls as usual and left earlier than usual. I, for several Yorks, have not thought it worth the trip for those two reasons. (personal problem, maybe)
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