Do you use your trains year round?

"Use trains"?  I am doing something for the layout year around...trains may wait at

stations while I root through books or mags for ideas, drive down country roads and

through small towns, or cross counry,  taking photos for ideas.  I may climb around old mines, walk abandoned roadbeds, explore ghost towns, or sit on a rotting platform and listen to the weird sounds of wind creaking the rusty corrugated sheet siding sheathing an abandoned grain elevator....and wonder how many old boxcars with the

cardboard doors that elevator sent out in a season?  The trains are why I am there.

Year Round, although I am under going some upper deck reconstruction.

 

 

All year almost every day.

All year  - just about every day for at least a few minutes.

All year round.

 

Yes • See photo of East End

Shelf layout.

 

I run my O gauge trains all year.I never realized until now how easy O gaugers have it.My brother and I were put in charge of setting up and maintaing my Dad's outdoor G gauge layout that only runs in the summer.I plan on posting a new thread on all the work that goes into a G scale outdoor summer train layout.Way more work than I ever thought to keep the trains running.It is worth it though if you have the time,outdoor G scale is a lot of fun.

Dan

 

I have two permanent layouts, a permanent collection and workbench/service area.

 

I am a retired professional Grandfather and Lionel trains are my hobby.

 

I service for two local train shops.

 

I believe I do use my trains year round.

I fuss around with trains virtually all the time.  Could be work on the O gauge layout ( a LOT still to do there).  Could also be running trains on the tinplate layout or the Large Scale layout in the garage to relax in the evening.  Or, could even be with working on my recently rediscovered Z scale layout that has been stored away for years.

Mine run all year- although I slow April through September in which case I do run on rainy days. Although the layout is small there is always something to do.

While I have become bored with the carpet loop, that's all I have at the moment.

However, My Grand-daughter and Great Niece want to see it run almost every day.

Therefor it gets plenty of run time no matter what time of year it is.

I'm doing good I think, They are 7 months and 1 year in age and both love the trains.

 

The loop (with long side run through siding) is the remains of the Christmas Layout and has changed from Quilt batting to green felt under the track and normal buildings VS the North pole stuff.

It also moved from tables to carpet level and then got longer and wider...

30x14 layout in basement all year long

Ditto.

 

My train activities are restricted to 12 months out of the entire year.

Trains are a year round hobby for me. More running during the holidays and mid summer for friends and guests. Normally, I try to work on something at least fifteen minutes a day.

All the best,

Miketg

I love the overall "look" or "feel" of this pic.  All the train signage...the lights....very nice atmosphere!  

 

- Mike

Yes. 

Yes, I use my trains year round! I was wondering is this sort of thing contagious? Cause, if it is I got it bad!Good and Plenty! Good and Plenty! You could call me a train junkie!

 

Hobo ya don't!

 

Mike Maurice

 

Wait his arms ARE full of tracks!LOL

Yes. Almost every day.

I sure would like to if I could get a space for a permanent layout.  One daughter gets married in October, but the other one has the mountains of stuff.

Since I keep them up all year round in the basement, every time I do the laundry or run on the treadmill I find myself running the trains afterwords.  I try to find sometime in the summer to work on them at least once a week but it's tough with all the yard work, picnics and vacation. 

I haven't run trains on my home layouts in a few months, as I've accumulated too much clutter on them again. In the summer prices on trains tend to drop and I buy like crazy.

 

I did recently take advantage of the warm weather and repainted a basket case Marx engine.

 

I also go to as many of our modular club shows as I can and was at the LCCA national convention, so I guess I am into trains year round even if the layout is a bit under appreciated in the summer time.

 

J White

 

 

All the time.

All year long but, as with others, summer chores and activities do cut into the time spent.

Guys, I truly appreciate the fact that other's take part in this also! In fact, it has made me humble, with awe and appreciation for your tremendous group accomplishments! Go OGR Forum and thanks for encouraging me NOT to feel weird! Mike Maurice

So many times with just a short time to spare before my son joey has to go to bed we will run the trains even for about 10 minutes. Try it it really calms us down no matter what kind of day it was. In addition it gets your mind thinking about carving out time for train projects