Recreation: RUHRGEBIET by EJC

[Simtastico 0]

amazing work! sehr gut!! I like when you mix real pictures with sc4 pictures.. hard to tell the difference Also a great region pic, the farms goes well into each other! Looking forward to see some more pictures..

[gabry85 2]

Great work with the railroad, especially the bridge! Again excellent German recreation!

Welcome to Page 17!

[Benedict 3,119]

Nice center of Unna - especially the rail.

[vivydu29 60]

Great work, It's very beautiful, I love it.

[E.J.C 9]

UNNA Industry

Interregio-train passing by..

And also an Intercity passes..

Evening falls over the complex..

And a total shot of the surroundings..

 

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[Twenty20 28]

awesome work ! looks very realistic.

[jacqulina 162]

excellent industry my friend very nicely done love the railroad

[gabry85 2]

Wow, even the industries blend very well with the farms nearby! Well done!

[bbfan02 23]

Wow, excellent work! They look great!

-bbfan02-

[E.J.C 9]

BERGKAMEN

This is the center of the small village of "Bergkamen" that is 10km north of "Unna"

Highway "A1" crossing some farms just east of the town

Farmlands stretching out over the outskirts

A railline is connecting the north of the village with "Münster", "Dortmund" and "Hamm"

An out zoomed shot of the station, allready visible the coal-mine mountain and it stacks

On the Canal we find the power-station of the area

The overview of the total complex

The main street of the city, nice wall2wall buildings here.. typical German

A nice shot of the city of "Bergkamen" a real peaceful village..

Last shot; the church and some advertising on the buildings

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[jayo 44]

I love your rural areas-I love the way the railway snakes through the countryside-I like the picture with the motorway in it too

Great work

[koekie01 3]

I like the update! But where do you got al those different farms?

Koekie

[Benedict 3,119]

Another stunning update. That corner building (white) with the turrets (black roof) is just amazing.

[bbfan02 23]

Wow, that is impressive! Your building skills are amazing. Great work with the town! I like the small farms and other rural areas!

-bbfan02-

[jacqulina 162]

wow wonderfull farms and everything fits in together so well very nicely done my friend

[E.J.C 9]

RUHRSCHNELLWEG

Today a very special update I say... We gonne take a tour along the entire highway that stretches from west to east along the entire region!! With this update you'll see what a variety the region has to offer; industries, rivers, cities, farmlands, railways, harbours, valleys, stations, forests.. etc etc

Red line -> Ruhrschnellweg & Blue dots; Pictures taken

So; sit back and enjoy this huge update and let the little story beneath every picture tell you something of the region...

We enter the region from the west and we reach the first junction of the region; "Kreuz Moers" Farmlands are being taken over by housing and industies now on!!

We're passing by the western suburbs of "Duisburg" and we cross the river "Rhine" with the nice bridge that holds the "Ruhrschnellweg"

We enter the most industrialised settings of the Ruhrpott; "Duisburg Hafen", with large petrochemical plants and steel mills the banks of the river "Rhine" holds most of the very heavy industry of the region..

We are passing by the city of "Duisburg" and we enter some more hilly terrain east of the city. Here a couple mayor highways meet, aswell some raillines which are here bundled together towards Duisburg main station; "Duisburg HBF"

This is the only time the "Ruhrschnellweg" crosses the river "Ruhr". Between "Duisburg" and "Mülheim" several rail-tracks and the highway crosses the river and some farmlands beneath.

The eastern suburbs of "Mulheim", southern of "Oberhausen" and western of "Essen" Here the highway makes some turns and we enter the denser residenital areas around "Essen"

The shopping-center (einkaufzentrum) Ruhr is near the highway A44, here we enter the city-border of "Essen"

The highway continues going deeper into "Essen" city center. Here we can see the trade-center that's on the banks of the highway and the "Fernsehturm" or in English; radio & television-tower of "Essen"

"Essen Zentrum" (center) with a highway that tunnels itself underneath highrises and popping above ground just in front of the railway station; "Essen HBF"

[jacqulina 162]

wonderfull highway journey thankyou and excellent views as we travelled,excellent highway and roads system my friend.awesome work and pics.

[Simtastico 0]

great work with your region so far.. it all looks very realistic, and the bochum pictures are very detailed. Also like your rural areas.. keep it up!

[artoxb 0]

wonderful update! it almost feels like driving down the ruhrschnellweg in reality

[petriknl 15]

Wow last time I though you cant do better but you can. It is so amazing! You are a great example for me.

[Mr. Beer 12]

Damn!!! I missed a lot of update! Wonderful work my friend!!!

David

[Benedict 3,119]

Great idea to showcase the motorway/freeway. As you know, I am a big fan of your CJ, and this was a clever way to take us through the region - good job!

[Ozon 0]

I now follow this cj for quite a while and after you have showed really alot of pictures,

i MUST say this recreation is AWESOME!!!

Let me summarize what me inspired most on you´r recreation:

1. Your way to build your traffic grid.

It´s a mastery to beat the gridstyle over a wide cityarea, because grid is kinda inherent in the game with the standart networks.

Your way to build grid in other angles than 45°-steps is just amazing and gives the cities the european touch.

2. The buildings: im not sure how many growed and how many you have plopped, but the mixture is very good! even though i visited the Ruhrgebiet twice in my life i´d say the colours and style of the buildings is well choosen, and there are no (over-)brightlycoloured maxis buildings. This results in a "natural grey"-appearance of your cities, which you can also observe when using any map-site on the internet and look on a city from above.

3. Your way of using details.

There are many great CJs indeed, many of them focus on the smalles details - like little sideways, fences beside the rail and whatsoever.

But the appeal of your city is not the small detail in every corner, on every cell,

no for me its the way u use details to stress specific locations(like the Harbor), to let them shine out of those (i.e) boring industrial areas.

All together you have my admiration - i have rebuilt a small part of the Rhein/Main-Gebiet by myself, and apart from the traffic net (which is by far the easiest part, i´d say)

it´s far from beeing such a masterpiece of recreation like your´s is!

[bbfan02 23]

Wow, excellent work! Great highway going through the farmland! Great industrial port and surrounding area. Overall fantastic work!

-bbfan02-

[koekie01 3]

Amazing! Just amazing! Looking foreward to your new update!

Koekie

[Mike the Mayor 51]

Wow! Well, like I've said before - an awesome cj. Great work! I love the layout of your CBD and the high-rise buildings are placed soe realistically. At least you don't overwhelm your city centre with high-rise buildings.

[harlem123 0]

2 Things

its VFL Bochum not Vfb

and the Westfahlenstadion is too small it is a 80.000 seat Arena

[UnkleS27 24]

wow, that was an incredible update. You have built an absolutely AMAZING region

[E.J.C 9]

THANK YOU

For all the nice comments

This is the region how it looks today.. A lot of infrastructure I've done last weeks & also some developement north of "Dortmund"

we're allready at 60% completion of the region... aaaargh; a long way to go!!!

@ Ozon; thanks for that replie!! that is really a replie where I can do something with. filled with critisism and thinks you like; that's the way I can improve my city-building style and it's nice to read you like it!!

@ harlem; I've changed it.. my bad!

@ mike the mayor; that's what it's all about; finding the right mixture to get that European feeling..

@ all the others; good to see you like my way of city building, and it's always an honor to be a example for you all. -> we can learn from all of eachother!!

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[Schulmanator 5,793]

That region view is about as realistic as any I have ever seen. You are great at what you do. Excellent work.