Hey guys
Just wondering how many times a week do you work on your layout? For me I will work on the layout on the weekends and save weeknights for working on a freigth car kit or performing maintenance on the rolling stock and engines.
Hope to hear your opinions
Jeremy
I work on it 2 or 3 times a week depending on my workload and insparation that week.
I aim for approximately 1 hour per day. Generally I average 3 to 4 hours a week, spread out, maybe only 1/2 - 3/4 hour at any one time. I am a 24/7 caregiver so whenever I get a break if my wife is having a rest I do something related to rr, even if it is just time on this forum. I am mid process of demo’ing a fixed layout and doing a 2’x8’ Free-mo module of a yard throat. So basically I do a little of this and a little of that or ballasting, or car cards, for variety!
For me it’s not the times but the length. Sometimes all day Saturday, sometimes several evenings a week, sometimes Sunday afternoon. It depends on what projects are in the works.
At least twice a week.
Bob
At the moment I have the time, and having a new intrest in the hobby and with all the great info, help and ideas I read in these forums ( thanks to all of you ) which gives me the inspiration, I am spending most of my free time on the RR. There are so many different aspects to get involved in and such a diversity of projects to start ( and yes I have finished some too ) my attention is definately grabbed. I usually spend a couple of hours an evening painting some DPM kits I’ve got or working on the landscape of my layout while the wife watches some ‘reality drivel’ on TV. Everyone seems to say learn by doing and I am definately ‘doing’ with a lot of learning.
Take care.
Only one time each week. Although that time is often interupted by having to eat, sleep, play with the computer (like now), and deal with those pesky non-railroad people that sometimes ask me to do things other than work on the rairoad… [;)]
Ray
i work about 11/2 to 2hrs a day. i consider anything i do to be working on my layout, cleaning locos, assembling kits, wiring or just planning.
Almost every friday & saturday from 6am to 5pm unless my wife has a project for me.
Everyday. Lately 3 hours or so at a time. On my days off, up to 7 hours of railroad related stuff. I don’t have a life.
At least a little every day-some days much more than others.
I try to work on something ‘train’ related at least 3 or 4 times per week. Right now I have a backlog of about 40 kits that need to be started. I have been working on scenery and that is very enjoyable, but seems to take a long time. There is always something that needs to be moved/changed as I start a new area.
Being single(divorced in 1988) and having my son living in Colorado, I now have more time for my own interests again.
Jim Bernier
I work in retail so my hours are wierd and the times of year winter when most modelers do alot of layout work I do less. I try to get into hobby mode 5or 6 hours a week it’s usually late at night(I work afternoons)and during the summer when I’ve more free time I try to double that amount of time. TB
Does reading and armchairing count? If so, it’s pretty much every day and night. And on Fridays I’m helping a friend on his layout. And on Saturday afternoon I’m hanging out BS’ing with the owner of my LHS.
I guess model railroading is pretty much a 24/7/365 thing for me . . .
[8D]
. . . and that’s just the way I like it!
Ditto to your comment, CB&Q Guy!
I always seem to be doing something that is moving me closer to the end result, either reading MR mag, surfing the modeling sites on the net, ordering from the catalogs, or building a piece of rolling stock or engine, or hanging out at the LHS.
Ha! Sounds like we BOTH need to get a life! [:D]
(BUT . . . I’m retired and my kids are grown.) [8D]
I am looking forward to that day!
With kids, Cub Scouts, family, and work, I have less time, but the free time I do have… well you know the rest!
Since I don’t have a layout for myself yet, my railroad is work, working at a train store. So, that’s about three times a week, two after school and all day Saturday.
~[8]~ TrainFreak409 ~[8]~
I get down to the layout about 2 evenings a week for a couple of hours. I some times get down for about 6-7 hrs on a Saturday. I some time operate the railroad and somtimes work on projects depending on my mood.
about an hours or so a day during the week and then 3-4 hours a day on the weekend. Sometimes druing the week I don’t make it to bed because I’m too busy playing trains.
Jeff
Last year it I was lucky to make it once a month to work on the railroad.
So far this month I’ve worked on it 3 times!!!
Woo HOO
Gordon