As a York newbie, maybe I accidentally went to the wrong York! LOL 
As I posted on the York sub-forum, My first York, I went and had a great time. But then, I have no past experiences to compare it to. 
I'm glad that I went yesterday and didn't get a chance to read the OP's post first. I found very few empty tables in any of either the member or dealer halls. There was a hole in the Orange hall and I presume this is where Atlas and Lionel would have normally been. Since there was little empty display space, I'm guessing the OP is talking about the number of people walking around?
As a scale guy, I walked around for almost all of the meet with an empty bay waiting to fill it with something. I had no luck in the member halls. Then within the last hour, I did pick up some things in the dealer hall:
- an Atlas Troop Sleeper, 20% of MSRP
- a 19" Lionel 6 wheeled Pullman sleeper (old stock from a set breakup), 50% off
- a Lionel CSX Legacy AC6000’s (from last Summer), 25% off MSRP
The above were all decent prices, but, more importantly, cross a few items off my wish list.
Although I was pressed for time, I did have a couple of great conversations with some of the folks in the member halls. I loved looking at all the prewar tinplate, including the standard gauge sets. I'll be going back to York and plan on joining the TCA sometime this week (didn't have time on Thursday). Next time I hope to bring my wife along and maybe I'll even buy a prewar freight set! 
Jim
