Mine is ready to run 365 days, but I don't run but very little, season doesn't matter. If you stop by and want to run trains thats good !! Just a push of the button and where operating.
Clem 
PS This was a hint please stop by.
I run mostly in the fall, winter, and early spring, but back it down a notch or 2 during the summer due to outside activities and yard duties. On really hot, hazy summer days, the dehumidified basement is the ideal place to cool off and run some trains.
I tend to be busy with summer activities and my other two hobbies, The trains don't get a lot of attention from May until Oct but we still run them periodically. The next train show in this area will be Greenberg's in late August and shortly thereafter the train season begins again. This was a great season for trains and I got a tremendous amount of work done on the layout. In the NE and Mid Atlantic regions, cold weather and snow forces one towards indoor activities. In summer there are the Flea Markets, Antique fairs, Car shows, vacation trips and the Jersey shore to keep you busy. As soon as October rolls around those activities disappear and I'm back in the cocoon and enjoying the trains.
Making plans for five more modules for the club modular layout. Plus we need to finish the benchwork for one club member's layout. Spring time is the time the "Beavers on Crack" get released. We're back in sawdust mode.
Gilly
Man, this filled up fast.
But, I must comment: I, and all of us in the Sunbelt, do realize that this is a Rustbelt (Snowbelt) hobby; just the way that it is. Lionel, Marx and AF were not started in
Miami, Mobile or Los Angeles.
But it still makes me chuckle when I see the -assumption- that I would "take the spring and summer off" from my primary hobby. Uh, no. It is going to be (it's not yet) very
hot and thick out there, and I spend as little time in it as possible, unless it involves
the beach, a cold iced adult beverage (not a beer; a real drink), some shade and a breeze,
some or all of the above. And with my physique, Gulf Shores and a swimsuit are out of the
question - children screaming, women fainting - and not in a good way.
My shop gets a bit cold in the winter, so my model RRing mostly happens to the sounds
of nature through the window in the Spring and Fall, and to the lovely hum of the A/C
in the Summer.
I'm not going out there!
I may not make it to the basement quite as much, but it is never far from my mind. There are some summer train shows, and I never miss them. I also spend my free days on my motorcycle, which always includes me raiding antique shops, flea markets and hobby shops that I might not hit in my car due to the distance. We vacation on Lake George every summer, and I always bring my bike so I can follow the same pattern up there. Tour the antiques shops looking for cool things for my layout.
Year around here in Central Florida............ no basement of course but the ACCR runs around my office year around.
Go pro tour around the layout: https://youtu.be/nhv5j9BI2_g
Mark
The past couple of years were more other things then trains. This past 8 months have been a whirlwind of working on the layout. But as many have said spring is approaching and that means outdoor work. This year on rainy days I plan to go up and work on the layout and run some trains through the summer.................Paul
I run my railroad just like the real thing, year round! LOL
Yep, it gets too hot here for me in NC to do much outdoor stuff in the summer besides normal yard work.
Yeah, come the beginning of baseball, and all those out door activities, it's time to cut way back on the chooch...at least the 3 rail PW Lionel types. I still get involved with HO during the rest of the year. I tend to do more "modeling" in the warmer months, as I can fire up the airbrush outside.
Yes I do cut down considerably. I spend A LOT of time in the train room between October and March. And truthfully really need a break so I don't get bored with to much trains.
There are some nasty projects from the train room left over from winter that require being down outside. Like large painting projects and other nasty wood cutting projects.
Things that I will not do inside and can't do out side during winter. I do try and get them done first.
To me summer is time to get out the box and go.
Easter week is perfect for the kick start.
Larry
Since the NJ weather has precluded outside activities most of my planned RR projects for the year have been completed. Already started the cleanup and storage routine last night. Track will get cleaned, locos lubed, stuff laying around will be returned to the proper location. The de-humidifier will start up soon. After that most of the time I will be in the yard or cycling. The only train related activity for the summer will be selling off excess stuff.
As my avatar suggests, my other major hobby is Civil War Reenacting; the campaign season begins in late March-early April and runs through November; we spend somewhere between 15 and 25 of those weekends in the field wearing the wool, All for the Union, Huzzah!
But the trains are available all year 'round, and I do find a few moments to steal to work on the layout or at least run. Really, work is more the competition than my other hobby. Even though our Spring Drill is coming up on the 10th/11th, I am in the middle of four major train projects, two on the main layout and two on the club modules my wife and I own.
I am a firm believer in doing something, if only for 10 or 15 minutes every possible day, even if it's only a run or a switch move. I don't hit every day, and there have been some long breaks of a couple months in the past, but I do try to keep the oars in the water year 'round.
