"I hear this "close the museum" stuff from time to time."
So do I. I brought the suggestion up only to refute it 
. I hope I clearly stated my appreciation for the museum and the importance of the museum to the TCA and to keeping the hobby and history visible.
I am equally appreciative of the LCCA, whose dues are about $35 as I recall, and they don't have a museum to support. So I think we can roughly estimate that $15 a year is the cost of maintaining the TCA Museum, give or take. Frankly, if your only reason for being a TCA member is to go to York, that's fine, but some of us consider the TCA has bigger fish to fry than providing a couple of train meets a year. Those who disagree can join a train club without a museum as there are several of them: LCCA, LOTS, TTOS (for the moment at least), LRRC, MTHRRC, etc. NMRA membership (they have a central HQ) is over $65 as I recall. Plenty of choices and it's your money. Mine goes to TCA, LCCA, and LOTS, for the present.
