One of Sweden’s finest and largest and most famous model railroad in HO scale

In summer 2019, Pilentum Television, was invited by Hässleholms Modelljärnvägsförening, one of the biggest model railway clubs in Sweden, to produce a video documentary about Sweden’s finest and largest model railroad layout. If you’re asking Swedish model railroaders and railway enthusiast, where to find the largest permanent model railway exhibition in Sweden, they will probably answer, this is the “Modelljärnväg Hässleholm”.
By the way, the Swedish word “modelljärnväg” means “model railway” in British English and “model railroad” in American English. In this video, Pilentum Television presents the “Modelljärnväg Hässleholm”, really one of the largest model railroad layouts built in HO scale in Sweden. Actually, this Swedish miniature world covers more than 700 square meters.
This Swedish HO scale layout is a historically correct scale model of Hässleholm’s railway station, its locomotive shed and its buildings as they were in the late 1960’s. During the 20th century Hässleholm developed into a large railway junction because it was a crossing of all the Swedish railway lines that ran from the north to the south and from the east to the west. Even today, Hässleholm is still an important railway junction in the network of the Swedish State Railways, also known as “Statens Järnvägar”.
That was the reason why Hässleholm’s model railway association decided to build a model railroad layout of the whole region. Since 2004, the Swedish miniature world has been growing continuously and is to be expanded extensively over the next few years. Until today, the HO scale layout was taking around 100,000 man hours. The layout occupies more than 700 square meters and consists of 1,600 meters of track, 400 points (switches) and more than 600 electrical blocks including block occupancy detection decoders and a signal system.
Many historical buildings, which no longer exist today, were reconstructed as they looked in the 1960’s. The track fields and the position of the rails were laid exactly on the model railway layout according to plans and drawings of the Swedish traffic administration. Because the “Modelljärnväg Hässleholm” presents Sweden’s railways in the 1960’s, we cannot expect the famous high-speed trains, called “X 2000” or “X2”, which are used in Sweden today.
There are no tilting trains and no high-speed trains. There are freight trains, local passenger trains and the famous Y6, Y7 and Y8 series of diesel railcars. These motor cars were used throughout the unelectrified Swedish rail network during the 1950’s to the 1980’s. On the layout, there are also the X5, X8 and X15 series of electric multiple units operated by “Statens Järnvägar” as express trains. Also the X9 series of four-car electric multiple units, once operated by the Swedish State Railways, also known as “Statens Järnvägar”, which were in service until the late 1990’s, are presented on the HO scale layout. By the way, that sharp reddish orange color gave the trains the nickname “Paprika Trains” (“Pepper Trains”).
The rolling stock of this Swedish miniature world also consists of the famous “SJ Class Ra”, also known as “Rapid”, an electric locomotive operated by Swedish State Railways. Those electric locomotives were used on express trains and were mainly taken out of service in the late 1980’s.
The size of the whole layout makes it necessary to use a digital control system. Hässleholm’s model railway association is using the software “Train Controller Gold”. Control of train sets, occupancy detectors and locomotive decoders are based on the digital model train control system, also known as DCC. Please, enjoy this video, and don’t forget to visit this layout, called “Modelljärnväg Hässleholm”, when you are going to make a journey to Sweden.

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[@behappyynot]

Certainly has the Wow factor in abundance, never has 51 minutes gone by so quickly so enthralling was your video coverage

[@applicareinc]

Thank you for your excellence in capturing the fine details of this masterpiece.

[@lissanne9769]

WOW-O-WOW is this a great layout and model train extravaganza. Riding this track the distance would be the best vacation ever. The camera shots and placement were perfect. The cab rides were thrilling. Thank you so very much for this wonderful gift of a video.

[@tonyromano6220]

32:00 unreal trackwork! To make track look like bad but actually work is amazing. 37:00 that main line run is absolutely fantastic.

[@grandpaarock]

amazing models, fantastic video

[@railroadhub6316]

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[@Henryk1980]

Beautiful pictures !!!

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[@pilentum]

Thank you so much!

[@uwekoch8054]

Muchas gracias por presentar esta maqueta tan grande y maravillosa. Mi época favorita para maquetas son los años 60´s y 70´s. Se pueden apreciar muchos trenes, vagones y locomotoras variadas (vapor, diesel y eléctricas).

[@HenrikSweden1]

Thanks for a nice video ! A really fine layout , southern Sweden during the 1960 and 1970s. Mainly around the city of Hässleholm.

[@urban3921]

It's going to be all railroads within the old borders of Hässleholm "kommun".

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[@pilentum]

Thank you! What does ASMR mean?

[@pilentum]

...Autonomous Sensory Meridian Response... No, it's just my love to model trains making such videos.

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[@pilentum]

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[@lepeejon2955]

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[@aram5642]

I love the track layout at Hässleholm C - this passage of 3-2-3 tracks and wiggly platforms. Maybe not unique, but rarely seen. Maybe I missed it, but I haven't spotted an important detail for Hässleholm C - the distance sign "535" at the southern boundary of the station. Also, I have the impression that the faluröd passenger cars were made one-off - seems like there were no two identical ones ;)

[@HistoirePhotographie]

Chacune de vos vidéos me font rêver, je regrette de n'avoir pas la place de faire des compositions, certes ce que je pourrais faire serait beaucoup plus modeste, mais j'en rêve.... Merci pour vos beaux partages

[@pilentum]

Oh, merci beaucoup pour ce message. Je regrette de n'avoir pas l'argent pour un réseau ferroviaire. Les locomotives et les accessoires sont extrêmement chers :-(

[@HistoirePhotographie]

@@pilentum Oui au delà de la place, les constructions et les réseaux ont un certain coût, mais vos vidéos nous donnent une petite sensation de les avoir en vrai dans une cave aménagée.... Si un jour vous venez filmer une composition dans le sud de la France, je serai honoré de pouvoir vous y accompagner.

[@t3xtielgordijn]

Nice

[@paulingraham9316]

The date being modelled must be after 3 September 1967 because, before that date, Sweden had left-hand highway driving. On that date the country changed to right-hand driving, which is what is shown in all the street scenes on the layout. The railways, however, still practice left-hand running!

[@gertholm3030]

Nice layout. Big project. Please put more effort in the assembly of the tracks. The trains (maybe due to the zoom level) seem to be jumping up and down now and then. As you seem to be using Train Controller, make the brakedistance longer in your blocks. Excellent work of Pilentum again.

[@Romin.777]

Seems to be from moving the layout to a different location? Could be the case if it were not modular build? Just my two cents. :))

[@rafalacalufes]

Hello friends. I need to know what model (series, brand, model, manufacturer, etc.) is the locomotive that appears clearly at minute 28:56. It is very similar to an Italian Chilean locomotive that was only built for Chile (Brenda-Marelli, E30 and E32). There is no one to do them in Chile and a long time ago I did not see one so similar ... please, any information I will appreciate it !!!

[@MrSteseDav]

The electric locomotive (which annoyingly has it's pantographs down), is an Ra class. You can find a little information on it here: adnalm.org.uk/index.html?locos there is obviously more information out there, but a lot will be in swedish.

[@ejazkhokhar6190]

very nice

[@dollin9515]

1:30 derailment!

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To the video camera shot film professionally,but i think it is necessary,more videos at the level of human growth.Video great and rare!!!

[@Fititunati]

Крутецко

[@lordjimtv3884]

hello...can i know mark of these sweden models ?

[@pilentum]

Please, contact the very friendly model railroaders from Hässleholms Modelljärnvägsförening at www.hmjf.se

[@usmanmuhammed8897]

Real trains

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There is no Live Wire!

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[@urban3921]

"Next few years..." Actually, the plan is to be finished in spring 2052, since this isn't even half of what's to be built.

[@pilentum]

???

[@urban3921]

@@pilentum What do you mean "?"? You've been there, didn't you ask about the large empty area or the scope?

[@tonyromano6220]

Balls I will be dead or too old to travel! Barring a medical breakthrough on aging!

[@v8eric124]

Schöne Anlage aber die Züge halten zu schnell an da werden ja die Pentler ja schlecht

[@pilentum]

Ja, das ist noch die Feinabstimmung im Train Controller zu optimieren. Aber sonst eine tolle Anlage.

[@v8eric124]

@@pilentum ja, da hast te recht aber deine Videos finde ich richtig gut. Filmst du nur H0 Anlagen oder auch andere?

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Why are people who are into toy trains, always middle aged men or older

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I’m into model trians since I was a kid, and I’m 35 now working in 1:1 scale 😉👍

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I mean its not really toy trains once you get to a certain level. Railway Modelling is a culmination of model locomotive and rollingstock alongside scenery. Honestly its impressive the level of detail people can get.

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[@jhomsllach]

I See this video and I see a wonderful world