Alexander's Restaurant......an easy walk from the grounds.
Also have been missing Dennis from Arttista in recent York meets. I will always remember that at one of his last participations in Orange Hall, he displayed one of his new figures that I'd been asking for for a few years....the guy looking through binoculars...who now proudly stands at the rail atop my forest fire lookout station created from an old Lionel 395 tower. Elsewhere....TBD...will be his twin brother checking out the sunbathing neighbor.
Also, I miss Bill Parisi (OGR staff)...because he helped me at an April York meet plan an expanded version of the Ameritowne Midtown Hotel to hide a basement support post . He was taken to glory I believe in June of that year....a mere two months later.
His guidance for the project was spot-on
...for which I will hold a special place of gratitude in my heart.
Yeah, I miss Vince's Trains, too. We...wife and I...bought our share of engines and passenger cars there. I always wondered why they didn't provide complimentary 'drool' towels at the booth's entrance! 
Finally, I miss the full gamut of ED-TCA's York rules....including bans on cameras, cell-phones, etc.. Yeah, you heard me!! (
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"Why!?!?", you say?
Because I miss those regular announcements over the PA, shocking us out of our railroader's reverie, reminding us of the plethora of no-no's...and wondering why appeals for personal hygiene and hefty fines for crop-dusting weren't included. It was the stuff that minstrels of yore would've written a tuneful ditty about to celebrate its heroic effort!........With a 'Hey-diddle-diddle-hi-ho'!!? 
York meet....better for you than pork meat!
Can't wait!!!
KD
