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Links to other Divisions
Atlantic Fort Pitt |
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Jane Boyce Director of Development . |
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Our show is open to our membership only. We are not open to the public. To join see below. |
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Purple Hall Charts |
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Hall Charts for October 2011 York Meet |
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York Fairgrounds Map |
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Many of you already purchased your York Meet Badge holder and we say Thank you! If you didn’t, you’ll certainly want to in October. ONLY $2.00 |
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President’s Message by Jim Kronz
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The Crown Jewel |
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Eastern Division’s Meet Chairman, Mike Petronella is always on the look-out for ambitious clubs willing to bring their portable layout to the York Meet to the delight of all our members with their imagination, talent and of course the running of trains. If you know of a train club interested in participating at one of our upcoming meets, please contact Mike for the details.
732 547-8818 |
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Sincerely, Jim Kronz President Eastern Division |
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YORK |
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For information on York County click HERE. Lodging Restaurants Sightseeing/Tours |
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York Meet Registrar 302-674-5797 |
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Questions?Please call between the hours of 10:00 AM and 8:00 PM Eastern time Monday thru Friday |
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Dealers & General Registration Debbie Geiser, Registrar Member Registration ONLY Jim Kronz General Meet questions Mike Petronella, Meet Chairman Table holders & Online Registrations ONLY Nancy Tentzeras, Assist. Reg. Nicholas Tentzeras RV questions ONLY Dave Goodhart |
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Put on a large pot of coffee, grab a cup and click here to spend some time in Clem’s Primer. |
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Renew your TCA membership online with Visa and Mastercard. Click below to begin the process. |
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Click on links below |
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A BIG THANK YOU to the AM-TRACKERS & the Baltmore American Flyer “S” Gauge Club for bringing their “O” Gauge layouts to York! |
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What a fabulous layout our international TCA members presented at our October York Train Meet. The AM-TRACKERS shipped their entire modular layout all the way from Switzerland to share with us a variety of European rolling stock and engines. Many of the items were from the early 1900’s, as well as a number of museum pieces gathered from members and fellow collectors. The AM-TRACKERS Club located in the town of Baile spent many hours building their 40’x 67’ layout as a way to say thank you TCA for being the wonderful organization that we are. |
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Contact - John Zobel |
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302-674-5797 |
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410-757-8845 |
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732-547-8818 |
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570-847-8017 |
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301-916-1507
301-916-1507
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Photograph taken at show in Switzerland |
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Photograph taken at B&O Museum Open House |
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A special Thank you to the Baltimore Area American Flyer S Gauge Club who graciously arranged to showcase their fabulous modular layout in the Black Hall. The BAAFC is a non profit model railroad club dedicated to American Flyer trains centered in the Baltimore/Washington metropolitan area with membership extending from Pennsylvania to Virginia. This club is called a “it’s just for the fun of it” club and uses the modular layout technique high lighting lots of action for both trains and accessories. |
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On behalf of the Eastern Division and the Train Collectors Association, we say THANKS to the AM-TRACKERS and the Baltimore Area American Flyer “S” Gauger’s for sharing their incredible layouts. |
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Well, I have been your President for over 11 months now, and I can report that things continue to go well for the Eastern Division TCA. We have just completed another very successful York Meet. Again, we had an attendance of over 13,500 members, family members and guests. We had some rain unfortunately, but other than that, as a whole everything went very well. |
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I was not at the Meet. It just so happened that my 50th college homecoming/class reunion occurred at the same time as the Meet. Since I am one of those lucky people who get to attend the York Meet twice a year and my 50th homecoming will only come once in my lifetime, I opted to go to the U. S. Merchant Marine Academy at Kings Point, NY for the homecoming. It was wonderful to see my classmates and remember with them our good and not so good experiences together those 50 years ago. However, our Vice President, Brian Reilly and Past President, Sam Geiser most ably filled in for me at York from all reports, and I thank them for doing so. |
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The last week in June 2011 the meet notices for this past meet were mailed to every Eastern Division member and to any other member who has attended one of the previous two meets. We use to mail the meet notice to every TCA member, but of the roughly 29,000 members |
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only about 9500 usually register for York. So we reduced our mailing to save money to assist on holding down our costs of admission and booth/tables. We send them out bulk mail, again to save money. Bulk mail is supposed to be delivered within 3 weeks, but again this time many of you complained that you did not receive a meet notice. We are sorry about this and can only guess at the reasons for this non-delivery. To help with this problem the Eastern Division will from now on take a full page ad in the TCA NATIONAL HEADQUARTERS NEWS, which you receive 5 times each year. The first one of these ads appears on page 86 of the September 2011 addition of the newsletter. The next York Meet will occur April 19, 20, & 21 2012. The ad contains the Member with/without table & Dealer helper form and the Guest Registration form. The ad also includes the needed York registration staff contact information. These forms can be cut out and mailed in just like the card in the meet notice. |
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I hope you all have many good opportunities to “play trains” this winter, and that you are able to join us at York next April. |
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Online Registration Click start button to begin. |
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We have a new call center to assist you in registering with a credit card.
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President Jim |
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The Eastern Division Board of Directors nominated Sam Geiser, ED Past President for the position of TCA National President Elect. The current President Elect position is held by ED member Carol McGinnis. |
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