Does anybody else go through this??

[BRAKIE]

No,I never get bored with the hobby..There is always something new to do or learn..

[cmitcham]

that's me brothaslide, getting fatter and fatter.

when not railroading, i play computer games, or when warm, fish. at work, i sit at a computer all day. not very aerobic :(

my wife does make me take long walks with the dogs a few times a week.

calvin.

[AggroJones]

When I get kinda "out of it", I watch some of my Allen Keller Great Model Railroads tapes. They hype me right back up.

[on30francisco]

Yes, this happens with me. On some days I will work intensely on the layout but on other days I will do other things and not even touch the layout. This is good because it gives me space to think about other projects.

[jacon12]

I agree with just about everyone else on this, and it kind of amazes me that it is so widespread, this feeling of burnout or boredom. For over 40 years I've been into photography, from my 35mm days on into medium format and now, of course, digital. I had a nice wedding photography business for a while and did some product photography as well. From that I learned not to mix hobby and business, not if you want to keep on liking the hobby. Oh some people can mix the two and do it successfully, but most can't. I got to the point I wouldn't take a camera out of the case unless I was getting paid for it, and I rarely shot anything just for the joy of it. I think anything can get that way and you should just walk away from it awhile, work on something you really like. Model rr is very very new to me and I've been putting myself through a crash course, trying to learn as much as I can in as short a time as I can. You can burn out doing that too.. , especially when there is soooo much to learn it can get overwhelming.
Don't let the boredom ruin it for you. Do something else for a while.. :)
Jacon

[fec153]

Hawks05-ever been in a car accident? Whiplash will damage the nerves in the neck- numbers 4,5 and 6 discs. Had to give up baseball,fisfing and bowling. Quit the team carrying 192 average.
Phil

[Anonymous]

I worked on my layout for about a year & a half while I "was" retired.
Then I started getting bored. I was only doing the layout about 8 hrs. a day, 6 & 7 days a week. People were amazed at how much I had accomplished. My metal sculptures were getting set off to the side.
I got so bored that I went back to work. Big Mistake.
Now, the only time I can work on the layout is Fri. & sat., my days off.
Which was yesterday & today. The time I had off for retirement I built an 18 by 18 ft. layout. Since I've been back to work, I've added on another 18 by 18 ft., plus a 4ft. by 6ft. bumpout. I call this add-on Phase 2. Now, I never get bored. When I think I'm getting bored I go down to the other end of the table & change something or rework a section. Today I laid about 75 ft. of track for a new siding on the old part of the layout. Yesterday I had to tare out an old section that was a dead item on the layout. Today I filled it up w/the siding.
This layout will probably take me at least 5 years to complete as long as I don't make any more big changes. I have a buddy that does all my wiring, which I hate to do. He's good at soldering, which I'm not.
I love scenery, buildings, laying track, building mountains & running my trains. I spend about 2 hrs. a day on the puter on the diff. train forums. I also do all my own photography in digital & always photograph all projects before & after. I have about 5 photo albums for visitors to look at & everything else is on my PC.
I also collect Hot Wheels, & have a roster of 60 H.O. Scale semi's
that I didn't pay more than $3.00 each. LOL
That's my outlook on being bored--Ain't!!

larry