You may be right, this may very well be the way of the future.
As we all know, York attendance has been dwindling over the last ten years and now that Lionel, Atlas, Bachman and MTH have announced they will not be attending this year's Octobers show many may also decide not to attend.
For me the show was all about talking with the manufactures and seeing new and upcoming products. As most of the train people I associate with live near me and we are lucky to have a number of top ten dealers very close by.