I guess it's time to admit a) my reading habits are fairly obscure, but also b) I'm way too much of a perfectionist when I spend much of the night looking up details about a 1985-published book on a Swedish narrow-gauge railroad so that I can convince Goodreads to add the book to their database.
And of course, reading about Roslagsbanan also fires up my imagination on the similarly themed model railroad layout I want to eventually build, a narrow-gauge railroad in a coastal setting, with tram-like passenger operations combined with freight transport (so akin to Roslagsbanan or Lidingöbanan in Stockholm – except the latter has always been standard gauge).
But in addition to that, I also want to eventually build a Norwegian fjord layout and a French riviera layout. Plus I've already promised to build a contemporary Finnish layout with the kid one day.
All this is, of course, pointless daydreaming when my existing layout (circa 1970 East Germany) remains a work in process into its fourth year...








