Hi Everyone and if I may add my comments:
Well the dues is not what bothers me, it is the fact i learn nothing leaving York every April and October.
I feel that once a year is enough for me. This past November I joined the NMRA, one of the exciting things are the clinics that they have at every regional and convention meeting. They have a great website with clinic videos that were recorded at conventions and much more. I have only been in the train hobby for about 5 years now and I like to learn new things, scenery, electronics, bench work Etc. Besides friends that I have in this hobby, I also get a lot of this info from the NMRA. TCA is a great organization however; for me anyway, walking around for a day and a half looking at tables again this past October, hit me that I needed something more from this hobby to get better with my home layout and that I needed to learn more to improve myself. The vendors are superb people and it is great meeting people there. I wish the TCA would change parts of it's venue and incorporate some of the items that the NMRA is doing.
