This is definitely one of my favorite designs ever. For me, it strikes just the right balance: having operational variety without going off the deep end with complexity. It also offers many scenic opportunities without cramming in every cliché. What-ifs are such a great starting premise.
Another way of excusing a very shallow tunnel could be poor soil quality. In England, Mytholmes tunnel, built for this reason, has only about 10ft of soil above it. Thanks for another great video!
Great to see another track plan, I guess I find these the best part of your channel, though I do tend to like everything you do. It is being able to get an insight into your thought process that I enjoy, whether in these track plans, or the spur of the moment adjustments made while scenic modelling. And how you arrive at an end result, with the compromises, or more often, strokes of inspiration, that make a good layout into a much better one. Truly inspirational.
Hi ya Peter. Being a N scale modeler, my eyes and ears were piqued at this magnificent presentation. Also the spare bedroom I will be using is very similar. So many possibilities with this. Switching, operating, and running passenger lines. Wonderful. Thanks. See ya next time.
What a novel idea! Brings a whole new meaning to 'freelanced prototype'. Fascinating to see how you work through the process of designing a 'real' island railway from scratch; another excellent design and concept.
Thank you for another great plan and the progression from a simple one level dog bone to a very well executed three level beauty that works in a room that still can be used as a guest bedroom. As always, thank you for including your thoughts and stages.
God layout and a lovely idea to have a more Sodor-esque Gotland with plenty of railroads. If they'd kept the rails in place on the real island it sure would have been well liked by tourists during summer running modern trains or heritage trains. A thought struck me regarding the stream along the tracks on the upper deck: having it turn and cross under the tracks after the branch line joined the mainline would have made a good deal of sense, wouldn't it? i.e. if possible it is preferable to only have to build one bridge, after all.
This is a very nice plan with good scenic possibilities, good operating potential and a nice variety of industries. Also, it's a universal plan that could be set in many different locations. Makes me wish my space was big enough to do this in HO.
I too hope this one gets built - it would be a beautiful railroad, with a bit different flavour from many North American ones. Lots of operating potential, as you explain. The short passenger train really cranks up the possibilities!
Love the layout and operations possibilities! That harbour, logging facility och refinery can easily be located in Sweden. Hope this layout get realised! Some features are really not to be seen on the Swedish railways, but since the whole premise of the story, Gotland having a mainline railway, is fictitious, I guess those non-prototypically features are acceptable. :D
I don't know the name for the kind of bridge you have for the main-line/harbour branch crossing, either, but it seems to be essentially a short cut-and-cover tunnel.
Hello Peter. I’ve been watching a couple of your track planning videos. I was wondering what software you use.? I know you put in one of your earlier videos. Thank you and God bless.
Hope the client is happy but it does not convey the feeling of Gotland. In Sweden only the largest main lines are double tracked. Gotland would only have single line track if the railroads had survived. Yes, Gotland did have railroads, narrow gauge. There still exists small museum railroad.
Of course it doesn't convey the feeling of Gotland as it exists in the real world. It's based on an alternate reality in which the island is much larger, extending right up close to the mainland where it can be connected via a bridge or causeway, and where it is populous enough to justify a busy double-track main-line railway. I clearly stated all of this in the narrative. This is what the client wanted.
@@mpeterll I do understand this and you are doing as the client asks for. But it is an odd request. There is nearly nothing in this relating to the real Gotland. It could be anywere as it is a free fantasy.
@@okrasaghia Yes, I get where you are coming from. Unless one is modelling an actual place to full scale size and running a timetable exactly as it was on a certain day in history, then model railroading is always fantasy. Even if we do model a real place as accurately as our research allows, the moment we build a freight yard with say 8 classification tracks because the prototype's 29 would be too wide to reach across, or we run a 7-car limited because we don't have space for the correct 15-car consist, or we run a spur up to an industry that was never rail-served just to add more operating interest, we have crossed over into the realm of fantasy. Even if one had the resources to model a real prototype to exact scale with no selective compression, I'd hazard a guess that a reduced version of it would be more fun to operate. Who really wants to spend all day running a 100-car train over miles of track when a far more manageable layout can allow us to spend an hour switching two or three locations with a 20-car train? I respect your point of view. Each modeler will have his own preferred level of fantasy, and no-one should say that he is wrong - provided of course he is having fun doing so.
This is definitely one of my favorite designs ever. For me, it strikes just the right balance: having operational variety without going off the deep end with complexity. It also offers many scenic opportunities without cramming in every cliché. What-ifs are such a great starting premise.
Another way of excusing a very shallow tunnel could be poor soil quality. In England, Mytholmes tunnel, built for this reason, has only about 10ft of soil above it.
Thanks for another great video!
Yes, that would also work. I believe there was also one of those on the Settle & Carlisle.
Great to see another track plan, I guess I find these the best part of your channel, though I do tend to like everything you do. It is being able to get an insight into your thought process that I enjoy, whether in these track plans, or the spur of the moment adjustments made while scenic modelling. And how you arrive at an end result, with the compromises, or more often, strokes of inspiration, that make a good layout into a much better one. Truly inspirational.
Hi ya Peter. Being a N scale modeler, my eyes and ears were piqued at this magnificent presentation. Also the spare bedroom I will be using is very similar. So many possibilities with this. Switching, operating, and running passenger lines. Wonderful. Thanks. See ya next time.
Ha Peter I hope that the client send you some photos of the layout once he or she has built it. So you can share them with us.
What a novel idea! Brings a whole new meaning to 'freelanced prototype'. Fascinating to see how you work through the process of designing a 'real' island railway from scratch; another excellent design and concept.
Thank you for another great plan and the progression from a simple one level dog bone to a very well executed three level beauty that works in a room that still can be used as a guest bedroom. As always, thank you for including your thoughts and stages.
Great looking track plan, thanks for showing the steps to give a lot of action in a smaller space.
Great use of space with inventive ideas for operation. Thanks for sharing.
This is a very interesting layout that will depict the Gotham area of Sweden with beautiful country scenery as well as the city itself. Love it!!
Gotham? The island is called Gotland and the largest (only) city is named Visby.
Gotham? You're getting confused with batman.
Nice utilization of N scale in a small space. Kudos.
God layout and a lovely idea to have a more Sodor-esque Gotland with plenty of railroads. If they'd kept the rails in place on the real island it sure would have been well liked by tourists during summer running modern trains or heritage trains.
A thought struck me regarding the stream along the tracks on the upper deck: having it turn and cross under the tracks after the branch line joined the mainline would have made a good deal of sense, wouldn't it? i.e. if possible it is preferable to only have to build one bridge, after all.
This is a very nice plan with good scenic possibilities, good operating potential and a nice variety of industries. Also, it's a universal plan that could be set in many different locations. Makes me wish my space was big enough to do this in HO.
I too hope this one gets built - it would be a beautiful railroad, with a bit different flavour from many North American ones. Lots of operating potential, as you explain. The short passenger train really cranks up the possibilities!
Another nice layout in a small space. Great job!
A concept railroad with its many back stories very nice layout
Another great layout, hope to see some pictures of it too if he could. Thanks for sharing 👍👍👍😀
Oh dear, what a surprise! Living in Sweden and modelling in N-scale!
Haha, "protected bird poulation"!! Actually super on brand for Gotland. :D
Love the layout and operations possibilities! That harbour, logging facility och refinery can easily be located in Sweden. Hope this layout get realised!
Some features are really not to be seen on the Swedish railways, but since the whole premise of the story, Gotland having a mainline railway, is fictitious, I guess those non-prototypically features are acceptable. :D
Those pesky birds live all around the entire coastline nowadays, so the only place to build a refinery is in the center of the Gotland. :D
Lovely presentation.
Beautiful layout as usual 👍
Thank you as always 👍🏻
thank you for sharing detailed video
I don't know the name for the kind of bridge you have for the main-line/harbour branch crossing, either, but it seems to be essentially a short cut-and-cover tunnel.
Yes, that's a pretty good description of it.
Hello Peter. I’ve been watching a couple of your track planning videos. I was wondering what software you use.?
I know you put in one of your earlier videos.
Thank you and God bless.
It's called "3rd-plan-it".
There's quite a steep learning curve, but worth it if you are serious about layout design.
@@mpeterll ok thank you very much..
Hope the client is happy but it does not convey the feeling of Gotland. In Sweden only the largest main lines are double tracked. Gotland would only have single line track if the railroads had survived. Yes, Gotland did have railroads, narrow gauge. There still exists small museum railroad.
Of course it doesn't convey the feeling of Gotland as it exists in the real world. It's based on an alternate reality in which the island is much larger, extending right up close to the mainland where it can be connected via a bridge or causeway, and where it is populous enough to justify a busy double-track main-line railway. I clearly stated all of this in the narrative. This is what the client wanted.
@@mpeterll I do understand this and you are doing as the client asks for. But it is an odd request. There is nearly nothing in this relating to the real Gotland. It could be anywere as it is a free fantasy.
@@okrasaghia Yes, I get where you are coming from. Unless one is modelling an actual place to full scale size and running a timetable exactly as it was on a certain day in history, then model railroading is always fantasy. Even if we do model a real place as accurately as our research allows, the moment we build a freight yard with say 8 classification tracks because the prototype's 29 would be too wide to reach across, or we run a 7-car limited because we don't have space for the correct 15-car consist, or we run a spur up to an industry that was never rail-served just to add more operating interest, we have crossed over into the realm of fantasy.
Even if one had the resources to model a real prototype to exact scale with no selective compression, I'd hazard a guess that a reduced version of it would be more fun to operate. Who really wants to spend all day running a 100-car train over miles of track when a far more manageable layout can allow us to spend an hour switching two or three locations with a 20-car train?
I respect your point of view. Each modeler will have his own preferred level of fantasy, and no-one should say that he is wrong - provided of course he is having fun doing so.