TCA train show in York, PA

You're going for the whole experience!   The actual show is Thursday through Saturday at noon.

John. It's not a show, it's a meet.

Eddie, I think you and John are both right.

If you see friends and talk in the presence of trains, then it's probably a train meet.

If the merchandise on the tables is way too expensive, then maybe it's a train show.

I don't know what it is called if someone has trains for sale at a reasonable price and a buy/sell transaction takes place.

I think at York, all three of those scenarios will be taking place.

Guess the heading for this TCA Forum is incorrect -- TCA Meet Forum

I'll self-edit. Denny, I look forward to meeting you.

I wonder how many people consider the words "show" and "meet" to be interchangeable?

While there is a difference, many people don't seem to care.

Can we say nit pick?  I knew we could!  Makes me wonder why I reply sometimes.

For the same reason we'll pick at a sore the doctor said to leave alone.

Jerry

Does this mean it is not a flea market, or a swap meet?  I have been to those,too, and

some were for trains.

English is both a rigid and hard to understand language some times and it is also a very fluid one too with rules that don't always make sense, just ask anyone who had to learn it as a second language. A meet, show, event, flea market or what have you at one time probably had a solid well defined meaning and each had it's primary purpose but over the years they have evolved and added to and subtracted from what they originally were so the lines are kind of blurred. For all intents and for our needs they are all one and the same, I've never been to a show that only had trains to look at unless it was a public display somewhere during the Christmas season(and I don't count them as shows) and I've been to meets that had trains you can buy and also trains to look at. Now granted a meet will be mostly people of a certain like mentality who are members of an organization but a lot of meets are open to anyone with an interest in whatever it is the only real difference is probably the size and scope of the events. To me a show is a meet is a show.

Jerry

You will have a Great time at the Show, Swap Meet, Flea Market, Meet call it what you like Just have a good time and you will. It is all of the above wrapped up into a Great Time. Trains,Friends, Fun.

I just went to the ED website to look for something and I found this:

Apparently they also call it a show and a meet, kind of blurs the lines even more.

Jerry

DennyM, whatever the heck it is you will very likely have a great time!!

Any more, York is part swap meet, part trade show, and part train show.  Whatever you call it, I call it my happiest place on Earth. 

Andy

It's a show, flea market, swap meet. All in one.

Yeah, we're going to sight see and my friend has to get his table setup.