What some of you younger folks may be forgetting is that before the early 1990s, there were no on-line groups like this one. Imagine mailing a question to the editor of a train magazine, and hoping to get an answer published 3 months out. When York was at its prime in the 1980s, there was no eBay. You bought most of your train stuff from a hobby shop or through "for sale" or "want ads" via TCA publications. Train shows were an event. You didn't "talk" to your train friends every day, like we do here. So yes, York and the TCA are not the "big deal" they used to be. But all things considered, I'm surprised they're as popular as they are today.
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