The Flu and Today's MRR Progress

[RobertInOntario]

I can relate to the pleasure of having an entire day to model. Even though I don't have kids it seems that life is busy and I only mange to squeeze in the occasional hour or two once in a while on the layout. I've occasionally been in the enviable position of having "too much vacation time", that is I reach the maximum number of hours one can carry over to the next year. When i approach that number I take a day or to of and have devoted them to improving the layout. Its very nice to have all of that unencumbered time!

Ralph

Yes, it's great when it happens. What amazes me is that I'm just working on a small 3x5 HO/00 layout and it has already taken me such a large amount of time to make progress on it. Where do the folks who have large basement empires find the time to finish their layouts? And I see so many finely detailed 6x10 and larger layouts in MRR magazines -- it must take these folks years & decades to finish them.

Another example: I probably will have spent 6 hours alone on kit-bashing/modifying my station, yesterday and today. If I were to do that during evenings after the kids are in bed, it would have taken me a least a week. But I guess that's half the fun -- taking your time to either modify or create layout buildings from scratch. Sometimes I want to rush through doing the scenery and buildings so I can get back to running trains!

Rob