Greg J. Turinetti posted:Well, going to York for the first time fulfilled one of the items on my bucket list. It was everything that I had hoped it would be and more. I met great people that I have only communicated with online, I saw trains in person that I have only seen in books, and I talked with people to whom I didn't have to explain anything about my hobby or my passion for collecting. I even found some items to fill holes in my collection. I never expected that there would be dark and insidious forces set loose. (  
I have tried to keep my collecting energies focused on American Flyer Trains (not always successfully I must confess). While at York I saw in the flesh (tinplate?) some Dorfan trains. Horror of horrors! Since that time I have had an undeniable urge "to just add a few examples to the collection so that I have a representation of a manufacturer who was a contemporary of American Flyer". How could I know what a slippery slope I was entering upon? Look what arrived at my house after York...
I blame most of this on Papa Eastman and the rest of his gang from the left coast. I had a great time meeting him and Captain Cog and CP Bob. I even bought a Dorfan T-shirt from them. I kept running into them in every Hall I visited and at the TCA Museum. I think they were pursuing some un-deniable urges too. I know Papa E. succumbed to some American Flyer.
It was a great time. Now all I need to do is find one of those 8 wheel O gauge Dorfan Cabooses with brass journal boxes. I think I am doomed!
Have a Great Tinplate Weekend
Northwoods Flyer
Greg
yup...that Dorfan, and Ives, and Flyer will get to ya....