As with most people, on "nice days", I prefer to be outdoors. However, I despise humidity, and don't care for mosquitoes, so many summer days are spent indoors, for the most part, which provides ample opportunity for messing about with the trains. Spring and Autumn are my favorite times of year, so I probably run trains less during those seasons. Winter and Summer are my big train seasons.

No.  For me it is a fairly season-less hobby.

I will be spending more time cutting the grass and gardening but in Ohio we have plenty rainy days to play with trains.

  I also have other hobby's, Astronomy for one. I'll be looking at the stars (and planets) on the nice clear nights. Don

I'll be playing with G trains in the garden railroad. Just finished a twelve foot long trestle in an extension before the humidity sets in and have about six feet to go before I reconnect with the old main line. I had most of this stuff in storage and I don't anticipate any big expenditures. Something new this year is a battery loco with infrared control which I got as a real bargain cost. Planting in the garden this Spring is done. 

It appears that interest in model railroading wanes during the warm weather months for most people. There is a significant decline in used train prices this time of year. For those of us who buy and sell or collect, this is the time to buy.

I'll be spending a lot more time outdoors taking care of the yard and pool for the kids.  I work on the Cornfields and Coalfields RR as I get time.  I am starting to enjoy kit bashing, something I am new at.  Enjoying that a lot.

This time of the year is my "Train season" and with Washington summers far from comfortable (100+ degrees and very high humidity), going outside isn't very high up on the agenda.

In addition to my O Gauge layout, I will be trying to spend some time crewing on the Walkersville Southern...

I also spend a good chunk of time at "my" two-foot gauge railroad, about a mile from home. I'm one of the assistant managers as well as the usual engineer. 

The change of weather has no impact on my passion for railroading whatsoever. It's a 52 week season as far as I'm concerned. 

Bob

My home layout suffers but our club is open every Saturday during the summer plus work sessions so I am not out of the loop.

The trains trake a back seat during the spring time when the weather if great.  But once the hot and humid summer arrives I get back to the trains.  It gets so hot here that I can only work a few hours on the morning or early evening leaving the rest of the day to spend in the wonderfully air-conditioned train building.  I usually only work on the trains in 1 or 2 hour stints anyhow.  

Ed

It has just the opposite affect for me. Since my train room is located in another building from my home and Maine winters are tough, I spend much more time with the layout during this time of year.

Yes, I do see some drop-off from trains in the warmer months. I've got a lot of yard to care for and there are always outdoor projects. And vacations. And let's not forget "the list" from "you-know-who." 

Still, I try to head down to the cool basement and run trains and tinker with the layout whenever I can.

During the summer, my weekends get far too busy to even think about trains most of the time. However, being a substitute teacher, my weekdays will have lots of free time. This is actually my favorite time of year to work on my layout. The basement goes up to a nice 70 degrees, and is a perfect oasis after working outside in the 90 degree heat.

I move my activity to my garden railroad.

No change...train room is heated in winter and cooled in summer, and fresh eBay is

on every day....outdoors may mean dreaded lawn work, and while I very much like to

explore small towns around their railroads, following the brick streets to, too often,

vanished stations, and crumbling elevators,  current gasoline prices have curtailed that, and no gas is required to kitbash, if from photos in a model magazine.  When the bullet is bitten and gasoline is bought, there are all those vanished railroad roadbeds

to explore...

In the wet, foggy, rainy central valley in Oregon we have to take advantage of the sun shine when ever we can.  Between trips to the coast and mountains, gardening and yard work time for indoor trains is very limited.  Then there are the outdoor hobbies.............my 1966 USMC Vietnam era "mechanical mule".

TEX

Steve

do you mean there are other things to work on then my trains   yah i will be mowing my lawn and fixing up the planting beds.  once i am done with that i will be back to my trains.  

I hate the heat so when it gets too hot I head to my garage to work on the trains. I do have portable heat and AC so unless it gets too extreme either way, hot or cold it is the place for me.

mother nature could drop summer off the calendar as far as I am concerned just leave me with spring, fall and winter.

Just move to Oregon and you will have your wish come true.

TEX

Steve

That would be western Oregon, at least west of the Cascades.   It gets plenty hot in central and east Oregon.

Wish I could but I am set in my ways and the NE will have to do. 

Spend as much time as I can 365 24/7.

Yes.    I am heavily into R/C cars and racing them.  A great outdoor hobby at the several outdoor dirt tracks attached to R/C hobby shops around me.

ps.  want to see where a ton of the kids are?   Go hit up a good R/C shop that has an indoor track, or an outdoor track, or both.  It's not a an inexpensive hobby either.

Remember, just because they're not into trains doesn't mean they don't have a hobby.  The modern R/C hobby is to them today what trains were to us as kids way back when.

Okay, sorry for the slight tangent there

Anyway, yes, my time with the trains always diminishes with the nice weather.

...you run G too?

Yup, that time is almost at hand...there's an old car in the garage that needs attention.

Coaching baseball takes up a lot of my time every spring. By late June, that's over with and the summer vacation is approaching. I do as much as I can/want to my layout during these months.

This is the time I`ve been waiting for as my layout is in a shed in the garden so way tooooo cold to run in the winter.

Time to unlock & disarm the alarms etc.

Now the warmer weather is on the way it`s trains trains trains trains all the way.

It's good to see that so many of you share my "one track mind". Gimme trains or gimme death.

Bob

Oh you bet.., I'm into G..just have to finish that extension and I will be up and running, but the last two days have been nothing but non stop rain so it's back to the layout. BTW..that freight motors painted enough to mount the frame to the body..I'll post when done. Still working on that LaBelle project?

Bruce 

I live in Florida, year round running of trains for me.  But I do tune into the MLBN every night, love the game.  It does cut down on train running, but not by much.

Many thanks,

Billy C   

We still have a lot of work to do for our layout and I will try and do as much this summer as I can. I have more builings to think about for the layout. Also have ther next phase of the layout area to get moved into this summer. The basement is a nice place on a warm day.

John, there are so many geographical terms for sections of Oregon.  My "central" Oregon is the Willamette Valley running from Salem south on I-5 to just above Roseburg, Oregon.  When the storm fronts come in from the Ocean they get backed up by the Cascade mountains and the valley gets more rain and if not raining, fog.  Last year we had rain all they way through June. 

TEX

Steve

at 65 years old-chasing young women and swimmimg

With Summer approaching, I likely will have to finish painting the house and replace a couple of windows during the weekends.  Hope to also have a couple of weekends to finish picking up the basement and getting it ready for the layout expansion in the Fall.

For pleasure, I hope to also get a few days sailing my 15' West Wight Potter.  Have a new main sail getting sown, hope to have it sometime in the next month!

Yes, I do back off trains this time of year. It's time to get out the Harleys get them in the toy hauler and go. Hope to stay lost out West at least a few months this year. Then the sons are split from Florida and Alabama. It's just time to get out and roll. Probably won't be that way for many more years. I have got to take advantage of it now. Then, Lord willing I'll have trains 12 months of the year.

Larry

Tenn.

Yes, I will be busier with other activities, but will continue with trains.

No way - it's a year-round hobby with me.  My wife says "daily", but she tends to exaggerate. 

Yard chores and my pool. Since we live in the Northeast, we only get 3 months of swim weather, so gotta say I spend my Saturday and Sunday's floating in my lounge!

I took up baking ......