I retired in 1999 after working 31 years on 1:1 trains and began building my present layout. Worked on it all around the year. Three years later I joined a club and model there all around the year too. So for me there is no season of Mrring. It goes on and on.
I think of model railroad season beginning again in September, when our local NMRA Division starts having monthly meets again, and when the local swap meet season kicks in. But I try to do a little something every month, even if it is only to fall asleep reading the latest MR or NMRA magazine outside on a hot afternoon. The only actual modeling accomplishment this summer was a weathering project that turned out rather well.
Dave Nelson
I model all year. I just make time to do all of the things I want to do. I live in Texas, so the weather normally cooperates.
As far as plans, I really don't have any. Since I do model all year, I just take projects as they come with no real planning at all.
Chuck - Modeling in HO scale and anything narrow gauge
If I were to have golf as a hobby, I certainly wouldn't let a Canadian winter make me suspend it - that's why I'm a model railroader, and I don't let summer interrupt it.
Wayne
Hello All,
Most of my modeling season happens in the summer, yes in the Northern Hemisphere!
I'm a skiing & snowboard instructor for adaptive, special needs and wounded warriors at the Breckenridge ski resort. When the snow begins to fall in early to mid October until mid April I'm pretty busy with work. My longest stretch without a day off was 23-days in a row!!!
From April until October is my modeling season. During those months I work with the bicycling program for the same folks but it's three days a week every other week, which allows me to get in some much needed pike time and enjoy other summer activities; mountain biking, hiking and camping.
Hope this helps.
"Uhh...I didn’t know it was 'impossible' I just made it work...sorry"
Down here, even in the dead of winter days in the mid 60s are not uncommon, we even get the odd day in the 70s. with that in mind, there really isn't a model railroading season. How about for other who live in warm climates?
Modeling the Pennsylvania Railroad in N Scale.
www.prr-nscale.blogspot.com
Up here in the Chicago area, golf season ends around the beginning of the second week in November. With the end of golf season, it is the start of model railroading season (November thru March).
This year, with no projects remaining on my 10-year old layout, I am going to run trains as never before until New Year's Eve, then seriously consider demolishing my current layout and building my Dream Layout after the first of the year.
When does model railroading season begin for you, and what plans do you have for this year?
Rich
Alton Junction