i like to run everyday but i have a indoor RR. one advantage to being inside .
To be perfectly honest, I’m lucky if I get out twice a month in the summer to run trains. In the winter, it’s usually only on the odd really warm day, or if I’m testing something that I’m building in the workshop.
It doesn’t really bother me, either. The garden exists for aesthetic pleasure whether trains are running or not. So long as I can look outside and enjoy the landscape, that’s really enough to keep my energies going.
Later,
K
I try and run 2 to 4 times a week weather permitting, or if some one comes and want to see the trains, some times i run them up to 3 hrs. at a time , changing engines every now and then. BEN
i guess because i am home so much i just can’t resist runing mine and the sound makes it sound so real! i look so foward to runing mine so much wish i had more freedom.to change each week. i change roads about once a month i would like too change every other week. and my favorite diesels are f3’s and geeps 7/9 or 38-2’s.
k dont have a garden RR weather in florida is not my favorite weather and the bugs!
ben glad to here from you too.
happy RR to all
HELLO TRAIN ME
I DIDN’T get to run today ,but i got my buildings put out side and worked on my pond , and cut my acre of grass, it’s going to be nice tomorrow the weather man said , so i’ll get some running time tomorrow and relax [:)][2c] Ben
I also run daily and like train-me,am indoors.
I’d like to…maybe I should mount a Z zcale point to point layout on my car dashboard!!! [:p]
underworld
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I run trains when the kids want to run their trains or I want to relax. I would like to run everyday, even if its for just a few minutes.
See Steve, you are blessed, and get to spend some quality time with your trains.
Tim [:D]
tim
I just came in from running my trains, the weather was real nice. I ran for over 4 hours, and some guy stopped and ask to come in to see the trains, he was driving by my house, he ask if he can come back another time , to take some pictures, ben
Steve,
I run every day, only once or twice a month missing a running.[:)][:)]
I run indoors, as well.
jb
No I don’t run them every day You get sick of it as it becomes a chore. But I do run them in bursts say four or five days in a row for about 2 hours per day. This is usually just before and just after sunset as i love night runs.
Rgds Ian
For me it’s the garden. I get as much pleasure looking out and seeing the track as I do running the trains. Back to that old question again, is yours a garden with a railway in it or a railway with a garden round it? etc etc. In summer I usually run most weekends and hardly ever in winter, but as long as I can see it…
Cheers,
Kim
[tup]
ian
how do you get sick of them or bored i am allways enjoyed to run my RR.
its not boring or sicking to me some times i let them run when not in the room i hear the metal wheels rolling over my bridge. and sound unit going bye.
i guess different people think difrently about runing trains.
To me the trains are the animation which makes the garden come alive. Just as many people plant flowers that attract certain types of hummingbirds or butterflies or even bees, I like to plant "plants that compliment my railroad. Thusly, if I’m running my trains, it’s usually because I’m outside gardening in the train areas or doing builing or track maintenance.
So to make a shorrt story long, no I don’t run everyday. My personality is like Ian’s in that respect. If I ran everyday, I’d quickly get bored with just watching the trains go roundy-round.
My next layout will incorporate more switching tasks, I think, so that it will be more interactive.
Mark
BTW, maximum overload crunch time running for me normally comes in October while I’m getting ready to run the Halloween display. This year, add to that my hosting our club meeting next month.
I do not run every day. I try to run at least one day a weekend weather permitting. Like Steve said #8230;#8221;times I let them run when not in the room I hear the metal wheels rolling over my bridge. #8221; Mine are out doors but at times I just have them going around while I read a book. I will hear them and every so often catch a glimpse of the engine or car rounding the bend. It can be very relaxing for me. It is relaxing in the way watching a fire in the fire place or watching fish in and aquarium can be.
Sorry about #8230;#8221. they just pop up all by themselves from the computer I am on now. My other PC does not seem to have this problen but is not currently seeing the world wide web.
I try, but I’m very busy, summer is the best time for me to run trains.
Matt [8D]
well while i was running today i noticed my acl were getting real dusty looked like a western RR so i got out my dust brush. yea it gets dusty indoors too but its been a year since i put them out. allways find some thing to do on my RR lube rolling stock put out flags on my loco clean my wheel’s.
Not every day, but most. Depends on what else I’m doing.
C&C, the numbers come from copy/pasting your text from another program. They might be “Typesetter’s” quote marks.
The people that do not run a lot, do you leave your rolling stock out overnight?
Torby,
I have a posting regarding the stray characters. Stray character in postings at http://www.trains.com/community/forum/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=34309
It seems to randomally happen no matter what I do from this PC.