do you all try to run your trains EVERY DAY?

[Anonymous]

i like to run everyday but i have a indoor RR. one advantage to being inside .

[kstrong]

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

[Anonymous]

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

[Anonymous]

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

[Anonymous]

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

[chemung]

I also run daily and like train-me,am indoors.

[underworld]

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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[TurboOne]

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]

[Anonymous]

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

[jebouck]

Steve,
I run every day, only once or twice a month missing a running.[:)][:)]
I run indoors, as well.
jb

[Anonymous]

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

[Anonymous]

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]

[Anonymous]

QUOTE: Originally posted by iandor

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

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.

[markperr]

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.

[CandCRR]

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.

[CandCRR]

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.

[Train 284]

I try, but I'm very busy, summer is the best time for me to run trains.

Matt [8D]

[Anonymous]

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.

[Tom The Brat]

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.

[CandCRR]

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.

[Anonymous]

i leave it out all the time. night and day.

happy RR

[Anonymous]

well we ran late today was busy replacing bolsters on my aristo trucks today have 5 more pair to redo. i have done 9 pair 18 trucks so far.
they are time consuming first 4 trucks 20 hrs its got faster.
Happy RR

[John Busby]

Hi train me
No but I do like to go out there and iether tinker a bit or just relax and contemplate
the next little job that needs doing like loads more track to run on, or just stick in the odd sign or something
To have a deliberate plan to run every day would spoil the creative urge by making it a job rather than a hobby
regards John

[Anonymous]

QUOTE: Originally posted by John Busby

Hi train me
No but I do like to go out there and iether tinker a bit or just relax and contemplate
the next little job that needs doing like loads more track to run on, or just stick in the odd sign or something
To have a deliberate plan to run every day would spoil the creative urge by making it a job rather than a hobby
regards John

I have never ever plan to run my train its a joy for me to get in my power chair and go to my train room and oogle over my train's running. I guess I love my job its in doors and there always there on the track's turn it on a just get lost when your home bound its great after 3 yrs of tv watching 16/7 I keep it off now it was a job to me. not my trains with my ac te I am in control 2 tracks #1 aba freight #2 ab freight. I mix up running with dual gp 7/9 or dual gp30's dual gp38-2's . can't wait till I can get a usat pass cars to run behind BO abba.
Happy RR John

[Anonymous]

I am new to garden trains. [:I] We just got one last week. I love to run mine. I feel like it is such a serenity!
That brings me to a question for the ones running outdoors. Where do you keep your train when you are done for the day? Do you leave it outside? Do you have a depot to lock it up in? Do you take it in? We have been bringing ours in - in fear that it would get stollen. (That takes forever!) We have been leaving out only the track.
We thought about trying to build some kind of Depot to lock it in?
What does everyone think?

[ghelman]

Becky,
I am sure you will get all kinds of replies to your question. I do both. I leave them out sometimes and other times I bring them in. It kind of depends on how long it will be between runs. I also, had a theft concern and that depends on where you live. I have been lucky and have had no thefts from leaving them out.

Some people actually build their RR with a spur that goes into a garage or basement. I wish I had the room to do just that.

[Anonymous]

It is easy to get bored watching the same trains going around the same track ad nauseum. However i do love building new track, creating new arrangements and overcoming one small problem after another, during construction.

I have even now gone to an extended configuration, so that my trains run in all directions over all of the track in order. and both day and night

If you can imagine my main track around the pool in area 2 about 40 m long,. with a clockwise reversing loop at one end and an anticlockwise reversing loop at the other end. So that i go right around the main track in area 2 clockwise once and then into the clockwise reversing loop in area 1. Around the main loop anti clockwise 1 1/2 times then around the anticlockwise reversing loop whichis in area 3 and back onto the main loop in a clockwise direction for 11/2 laps etc. this way you don't get so tired of watcjhing the same bloody train doing the same bloody thing all the time.

Also I have much else in my life, even though I am retired. A younger wife, 11 grandkids, a three month trip to europe, several clubs to do with oldies, lunches and outings etc.

Rgds ian

[Anonymous]

I run almost every day. The planters where the inside loop is are lighted, so in the winter, when I get home from work, I can still see the train.

I leave them out, underneath the patio during the summer, and when there is not a lot of moisture in the air, when it's wet, there are several rubbermaid containers right next to the track the trains sit in. I have one of those gray lexan rerailers for putting the trains on the track, and I have stainless, so no cleaning, just hit the power and go, never a chore...

Greg

[Anonymous]

My HO, I run pretty much 3-4 time per week, on average. Sometimes I run 1/2 a day, other times just for 10 minutes.

1 Gauge, I run once per week on track, and more often on my SMT test stand for the locs.. fun to watch them run in place!

[Anonymous]

QUOTE: Originally posted by iandor

It is easy to get bored watching the same trains going around the same track ad nauseum. However i do love building new track, creating new arrangements and overcoming one small problem after another, during construction.

I have even now gone to an extended configuration, so that my trains run in all directions over all of the track in order. and both day and night

If you can imagine my main track around the pool in area 2 about 40 m long,. with a clockwise reversing loop at one end and an anticlockwise reversing loop at the other end. So that i go right around the main track in area 2 clockwise once and then into the clockwise reversing loop in area 1. Around the main loop anti clockwise 1 1/2 times then around the anticlockwise reversing loop whichis in area 3 and back onto the main loop in a clockwise direction for 11/2 laps etc. this way you don't get so tired of watcjhing the same bloody train doing the same bloody thing all the time.

Also I have much else in my life, even though I am retired. A younger wife, 11 grandkids, a three month trip to europe, several clubs to do with oldies, lunches and outings etc.

Rgds ian

Ian J Brown.

why did u get into lgb if its so boring and nauseum for you?

I just enjoy running my trains i can change my direction and my engines 2 different directions different freight's and sound is added excitement for me.
I guess my love for trains is diffrent then yours i have them in my living room in a show case.
I have a rea orig. caboose that before i had the show case it set on a shelf as a static unit lighted during night or gloomy days.
train's in general just are dear to me i have a exhaustive resource too them vhs's dvd's.
As a child i lived near a switching yard went to bed listening to trains switching till i fell asleep maybe that's why my love for trains.
"When i was able to get out and about i didn't spend as much time running my RR"