GG1 4877 posted:My first York show was in 2012. I always have a blast there. I don't understand the negativity either. For me it's the people not the trains that make it a great show.
My memories of York, PA go back much further into the 1970's as my family regularly traveled through York on the way to visit my grandparents. I think it was "Paul's" train store that used to be downtown in two railway passenger cars? Seem to recall it was all high end brass HO. Plus, who could forget the Shoe House near the US 30 bypass?
We stopped going that way when US became a continuous traffic light in the 1980's.
Re: Paul's train store. I wonder if you are referring to the train store that was on US 30 (Lincoln Way West) in New Oxford, Penna. It consisted of two passengers cars joined together at an angle at one end. Not that there couldn't have been something similar in York, but it was called "Amro Ltd. - Paul's Model Railroad Shop." The Amro part of the business imported foreign (mainly European, IIRC) trains and I believe it was pretty much all HO. Across the street (US 30) was the preserved New Oxford train station and a bright red PRR ND (4-wheel) cabin car.
The unhappy demise of those cars as reported in the York Daily Record is here:
https://www.ydr.com/story/news.../24/trains/31601251/
And here's what is titled "the last ad for Paul's Model Railroad Shop" (1984):
