Jdevleejr's popular thread, "What did you do on your layout, today" plus TrainsRme's comment about installing his doorknob in one of his vignettes, "It's getting really hard to find more to do on the layout," made me think.
I have wondered, for some time, now, about how much building and crafting a layout can become the major focus of the hobby, for many of us. And when the layout is "finished" (if ever,) do we actually get disappointed, that the creative adventure has come to an "end"?
How much time do we actually spend running our trains, once the layout is completed? When was the last time you ran your trains and for how long did you do so?
I've included several questions to invite a variety of responses.
Looking forward to your viewpoints,
FrankM
P.S. We (my wife and I) ran trains on Christmas Day, for neighbors (at their request, happily,) who came to visit. Before that, I ran all the trains to test the whole shebang a few days previously; everything functioned like clock-work. Before that, I ran the layout for myself before leaving for the TCA Meet at York, PA, in October 2013.