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Reply to "York: the “I had a good time” thread"

I have been coming to York Meets since 2002. I have only missed a couple due to conflicts with business trips and I have thoroughly enjoyed every one of them. While attendance has declined somewhat over the years, that has not detracted in any way from my experience. I enjoy everything about the York Meets - the building anticipation and excitement before each Meet, preparing my list of items to purchase, helping my colleagues Rich Roman and Stan Wisniewski from East Coast Enterprises set up their booth in the Orange Hall on Wednesday, walking the dealer and member halls on Thursday and Friday, negotiating with dealers and members to get a better price, meeting with old colleagues and building some new friendships, looking at the operating layouts, and picking up items I have purchased in advance from dealers who are kind enough to bring them to York, thereby saving me delivery costs and the anxiety about potential damage in transit. I am always totally relaxed and on a high throughout each York Meet and somewhat melancholy when the Meet ends.

I found this particular Meet to be excellent. The weather was better than usual for an April Meet. While a couple of the manufacturers were not there, virtually all of the top dealers were. The dealer halls were busy and in speaking to a few of the dealers, the consistent response was that sales were brisk. The member halls were also very busy when I visited them. There were plenty of great deals at this Meet. There always are at York Meets. You just had to search them out. I was able to find and purchase everything on my list. I also purchased some items I had no intention of purchasing, like a PRR Lantern from the lantern guy in the Blue Hall.

There was also some great news for me and possibly for some of you. I have a Proto-3 PRR J1 that has had an issue for several years with a tether that keeps disconnecting. I have had some really bad experiences with it like the time it disconnected in the middle of the longest tunnel on my layout. It had been back to MTH several times but the issue kept recurring. Jason from MTH communicated to me on Friday that MTH recently developed a part to hold the tethers on their steam engines together for both their 6 and 10 pin connectors. That totally made my day!

Already looking forward to October!

Pat 

OGR Publishing, Inc., 1310 Eastside Centre Ct, Suite 6, Mountain Home, AR 72653
800-980-OGRR (6477)
www.ogaugerr.com

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