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Question of the day (sat)
Posted by Anonymous on Saturday, September 17, 2005 8:22 AM
Have a nice weekend
P.S. amazingly none of the above. I only get 5 minutes of trains. This forum is all I got to keep me into trains[V]
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Posted by Anonymous on Saturday, September 17, 2005 8:30 AM
I picked 2 hours 15 min. Most days that breaks own to 2 hours on the forum and 15 min. working on the layout. On the weekends, unless there are other plans I try to reverse that.
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Posted by grayfox1119 on Saturday, September 17, 2005 9:33 AM
I haven' got my layout built yet, only the room is wired and completed, and the RR equipment is standing by ready to roll.
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Posted by railroadyoshi on Saturday, September 17, 2005 10:02 AM
for me its hard to say, Its so variable, but an average, probably 15 minutes. On the other hand, I spend hour and hours on the forums!
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Posted by Train 284 on Saturday, September 17, 2005 10:06 AM
about 30 min. to an hour. that is plenty of time for me.
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Posted by jeffshultz on Saturday, September 17, 2005 10:09 AM
I picked 30 min, because that would be normal if my layout was running. I'm spending even more time designing it though.
Jeff Shultz From 2x8 to single car garage, the W&P is expanding! Willamette & Pacific - Oregon Electric Branch
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Posted by Anonymous on Saturday, September 17, 2005 10:09 AM
I'd have to save anywhere from 0-3 hours, so I chose 1 hour, thirty minutes. Depends on what I'm weathering or building. For example, yesterday I spent no less than 3 hours working on a weathering project.

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Posted by Tracklayer on Saturday, September 17, 2005 10:22 AM
On average, I spend about an hour and a half out in my train room a day, but that varies depending on what mood I'm in, what else I might have to do, how tired I am, etc. My eyes have gotten so bad that if I have to work on anything, it has to be in the day time so that I have the benefit of sun light, but if I'm just going to run trains, it can wait until night when it's quiet and there's nothing else going on.

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Posted by Pruitt on Saturday, September 17, 2005 10:42 AM
I try to spend an hour a day, but house remodeling quite often prevents that.
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Posted by selector on Saturday, September 17, 2005 11:45 AM
Fifteen minutes, but not every day. For example, I missed yesterday. However, I spend far too much time here. [8D]
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Posted by cjcrescent on Saturday, September 17, 2005 3:28 PM
It varies. Right now I have had a lot to do around the house, and haven't been even around the trains this week.

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Posted by Anonymous on Saturday, September 17, 2005 3:30 PM
smetimes i dont even see my trains for a month[:(]
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Posted by retsignalmtr on Saturday, September 17, 2005 3:49 PM
i usually operate about 1-1/2 hrs a day and that includes laying track and roadbed, cleaning track, scenicing and anything else. it takes at least an hour making up a train in my yard at scale switching speed then switching at one end of the layout, dropping cars back in the yard and picking out more cars. then traveling to the other end of the layout, switching there , then back to the yard. i also spend 2hrs a week at my clubs layout doing track work and wiring. just last weekend i finished laying track on a module beloning to my club in my garage. spent 6 hrs wiring, ballasting and partially scenicing it.

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