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Hello, YouTube!
In April last year, 2012, I said I was working on an amateur documentary about the railroad.
I hoped it would be finished that summer.
Then I hoped it would be done in the autumn.
Now, it's 2013 and soon spring – and it still isn't finished.
Since so many have asked about it, I thought I'd make a movie and tell you all how it's going.
First and foremost: I've filmed quite a bit, but I still need more material.
And since the Swedish weather is a bit dull right now, I thought I'd wait in order to get some nicer shots.
Second: A lot has happened in my own life.
I got married. I've moved into a house.
We haven't even put up the paintings yet, hence the echoing.
And there has been a stir in the media lately regarding the Swedish railroad.
About delays, how everything's working – and not working.
It's been interesting to follow - and I will try to include some of it in the movie.
Now, I'm doing this in my own spare time and with my own money, so I dare not say when it will be finished.
Hopefully, it will be this year.
I thought I'd show you some of what I've filmed so far.
I've shot a lot of trains, of course. Environments showing how the Swedish railroad looks.
I also have shots from inside a cabin. A segment, where we go through a lot of buttons in a Class RC locomotive.
There's been many requests for this. To get an explanation for what all the buttons are for.
We'll see if this perhaps becomes a movie of its own.
I don't want a movie 60 minutes long, where we explain buttons half the time...
I've made some animations in After Effects.
They're showing the signal system, the security system, how it all works.
And I've visited Trafikverket, the state agency responsible for the railroad in Sweden.
I've interviewed a guy there who directs the trains, and can tell us how they work and other things.
And then some more things, big and small.
But as I said, I continue to shoot and edit. I'm making animations.
I'm trying to get this together, but - like I said - I'm doing this in my spare time
which usually isn't that big, so that's what we're dealing with.
But do keep an eye on this channel. I will upload other films.
And the more people subscribing, the greater pressure I feel that I have to finish the movie!
Let's hope for the best.
Thank you for watching. Catch you later!