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Go over your collection. Make a list of items that may have numbers so you dont end up buying duplicate road numbers. Keep a list of gotta haves on hand. Look over all the tables in the show first and mark in your head promising items. Some dealers are interested in "Not" taking all the stuff back home so consider a few peices of junk to be used as "Fodder" that may be able to reduced the price on the item you really want. Be very careful with locomotives, the last show I went to had locomotives that are vintage 50', 60' and 70's that are being offered at really close to today's current retail offerings. I tend to ignore the Hats, shirts and banners section of the show. I would try to find the few diamonds in the "rough" and take them home. Sometimes I come up empty because that prices are similar to the local hobby shop. The real fun is in the layouts and the people. The books and really neat stuff that they introduce sometimes is a whole show in itself.
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