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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.  ( &nbsp

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....

 

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