What gets you working on your layout?

[trainfan1221]

When I get the urge to do some major work on my layout, I need to have something else in the background. Usually my favorite radio station turned up loud. I also find Springsteen great to model by, but that of course is a personal preference. I'd be interested in what some of you do to inspire you while modeling?[?]

[railman]

Like you, the stereo up, sometimes its football, other times its the quiet hum of a engine running in the background that keeps me motivated while I'm doing some "boring" work, like putting scenery down in a seldom seen area, or cleaning track.

[dragenrider]

I leave my fire radio volume up and my police scanner on. I'm a volunteer firefighter/paramedic. Living on top of a mountain allows me to hear everything in north central Arkansas! [:D]

It gives me something to listen to while I work.

[Anonymous]

My layouts next to my computer and my computer contains my favorie music. I turn the music up loud and ignor everything but my MRR. I call It the "train zone".

Benjamin R.

[Anonymous]

Maybe i'm strange usually i don't want any thing disturbing me most f the time i get inspired to do some work by a picture in a mag or of someone's layout.When i get time to spend it is usually something i have been trying to figure out transition area{etc} for a while then all at once it will come to me and before i lose my thought i need to get it done.

[Anonymous]

MR magazine, after hangin at the LHS, sometimes I go down and just stare a the layout and things come to me!

[FThunder11]

Havin pics of other peoples layouts definatly inspires me

[twhite]

I'm a classical musician, so I take the CD boomer out to the garage when I've got a major project. You have no idea how FAST a mountain can go up when you're listening to "Carmina Burana" at full blast. All that neat dirty Latin poetry--
Tom

[Hawks05]

seeing a train or something during school. if i want to get away from the stresses of school work, like reading 206 pages in a night ( i have to do that tonight, i'm down to 132). or if i just have some free time i'll go start up a train and run it. i don't have much to do on the layout, so most of my work is putting kits together.

while i'm working i either have the TV on and i'm listening to some sort of sporting event or i have the music going. most likely a new CD i just bought or something, like Jimmy Eat World or Green Day. and the music must be LOUD because my train room is like a spare room off my bedroom. there are only 2 rooms in the upstairs, my room which is rather large and then the spare room which is 10x12 and the layout is right in the center with a bunch of stuff around the outsides.

[jdolan]

I usually get going after reading about a neat model railroad or a visit to one.

[Anonymous]

QUOTE: What gets you working on your layout?

Money, when i have it to buy things [;)]

[Ibflattop]

Going to other peoples layouts, Train swaps, or the Model Railroader!!!!!!!!!!! :-) KB

[willy6]

cold weather, a rainy day,music and a six-pack.

[PennsyHoosier]

I like Willy's approach. [^]

I usually listen to music or sports talk radio.

[Anonymous]

Sitting with the boss (wife) while she doing her crafts and looking at the layout.

[Martin4]

4 things start me up:
- great issues of Model Railroader and Great Model Railroads just like the ones I got this week.
- a railfanning afternoon
- my youngest son browsing through the 460+ boxes sitting on shelves in the shop
- a visit to my favorite hobby shops

Martin
Québec City

[Noah Hofrichter]

There are several things that get me motivates. They include, boredom, seeing my MR mag, and getting a new kit/car/locomotive, and wanting to get the layout abck to operating condition again(when I take something big down like a peice of track) I usually don't listen to anything by my own thoughts, it's good for ideas.

Noah

[Jetrock]

What gets me working on the layout? Typically, when I have something else I really should be doing but want to put off, I have TONS of energy to work on the layout. Oddly enough when I have free (unstructured) time I tend to prefer to play videogames or other such activities. The train urge typically comes when some other deadline is looming.

But sometimes it just hits. My garage isn't very soundproofed and I generally prefer not to inflict my particularly toxic musical choices upon the neighbors, so I don't listen to music while working on the railroad. I do have a small workbench in the house where I assemble kits and do small projects, and the TV or some music is often on in the background to provide some chatter (or, more often, my wife is watching TV and studying while I'm building stuff.)

Good weather helps. I have enough kits so that, theoretically, I don't need to buy any more for several years, but I'll probably buy more next week at the train show...

[Anonymous]

A stiff shot of Jack Daniels will do it: No, I"m only kidding, I don"t drink at all, but it is kinda hard to say what gets me motivated, Usually I think about what needs to be done now, most pressing need for work, is usually where I start.

Mac