HeritageRail Fall Conference & Annual Meeting 2026

The conference is at Wyndham Garden York in York, Pennsylvania.

The audience includes heritage railway professionals, volunteers, industry partners, and preservationists.

It suits volunteers and staff at tourist railroads and railway museums, since the five-day program is built around railway preservation and operations sessions and is hosted by the Maryland & Pennsylvania Railroad Preservation Society in York. Industry partners selling to heritage lines will find a niche, well-targeted crowd, while people from mainline or freight railroads with no preservation interest would get little from it.

Attendees at heritage railway gatherings usually wear casual or business casual clothing, often with work boots or sturdy shoes on days that include behind-the-scenes site visits, and layers suit York in November.