Many of us have our own layouts, many of us belong to clubs and some of us don't have time or a place to build a layout. For me I wish I could build a layout, but don't have the space to do it but I have a boat load of track. I try to run each of my trains once a month to keep them going and make sure they are in good condition. My conventional Thomas stuff I try to run 3-4 times a year because if you are like the San Diego 3-Railers, our kid friendly locomotive layout runs Thomas for 34 hours a week and almost 300 days a year, Thomas' life span lasts about 5-6 months. Originally the club buys new Thomas' but a lot of our members are fixing them. Now my tendency is when I get a new Locomotive, I run the heck out of it, so it may accumulate 5-10 hours in the first 3 weeks. How often do you run certain trains and locomotives. do you use a Ouija Board, a starting lineup like Baseball or do use a calender like I do? If you decide to run something based off of something else what is it?
Thanks