Hours spent operating

I tend to run trains almost daily, but the time is split between the indoor trains and my garden railway.  For me the trains are my way of coping with life in general.  They give me the needed calming down, sense of order and security and prevent me from ending up in an autistic meltdown.   Mike

Every night for about at least 1 hr.

Rarely, outside of club events (I typically do 4-6 club events each year). At home I maybe run a total of 10 - 15 hours a year.

Everyday but Sunday.

because I run at a club once or twice a week.

SJC you have a small layout?  Only 10-15 hours a year 

I usually run our trains 5-6 days a week, with each session usually about 30 minutes, occasionally an hour or more.

Given that our grandson is at our home most days, either when we're babysitting or when he and parents are visiting--and that he's obsessed with trains!--I have the best excuse. 

Cheers!

Keith

Livesteam1987 posted:

SJC you have a small layout?  Only 10-15 hours a year 

Yes but that isn't really an issue. I just don't have the interest. 

I don't have a layout at home. I just have a test track. I run my trains at my club one night a week, an occasional weekend night and for three days straight during open houses. 

None right now as my layout is in the process of being dismantled but I would pretty much run them every day even if only for 15 min or so before I went to bed.

--Greg

I couldn't count hours, but I fire up the layout and will run a train from one end to the other at least a couple of nights a week after my wife has gone to bed (she has to be at work almost 2 hours before me so she goes to sleep long before I do). Everything is plugged to a layout-mounted power strip, so all I have to do is flip that master switch and everything is up and running instantly.

I like doing actual op sessions, but alone it's just not all that fun. I try to get people over to run trains and plenty of people ask to come over, but my jobs allows for zero time off and it's tough to coordinate with others for that.

There are days when it feels like this:

And yes, I do have a classic engineer's hat (no overalls, though) that fits, with a ET&WNC patch sewn to the front. But other than trying it on when I got it, I have yet to wear the thing...