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Entry posted by SimCoug · January 17, 2013

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Forthwall, k50, Jason leo, ggamus, Mithrik, Kruness, dubaidude, KHRYSTOF, andisart, MilitantRadical, Aaron Grahm, Fox, Cefien, what12311, RepublicMaster:

Thank you all for your great comments!

NMUSpidey: Brilliant! A completely unexpected twist, and completely believable! I mean, it's seriously too bad for the people of New SorGun. It makes me wonder, what is going to be the thing that keeps the town on the map instead of languishing along as a suburb to a rail terminus? I mean, the journal is called "New SorGun", so there must be some good fortune lying in wait for them...

Thank you! But you mean I can’t kill off the main character in the first act?

Elfkin: love the winter pic!

Thank you – I’m getting a little more confident with photoshop

Superbacon: Haha! The railroads would do that, too. It costed them lots to build for sure. But as they extended the lines further west, they added as many curves as they could to the rail lines. So it would take up more land and in turn they'd receive more money from the government. Their way of profiting.

Thanks – the actual history of the American west has been a great inspiration for the story development of this CJ (and will continue to be).

Bluthlucidity: Delightful storytelling I'm looking forward to the development of Steamer Bay. I imagine it'll be a master-planned community with some landmark public structures and wide avenues? The potential, oh the potentialllllll. Looking forward to the next installment!

You have a keen intuition my friend…

Huston: When I saw that last pic of the snow blanketing New SorGun, I was just....

You seem to tackle winter pics with ease on an unimaginably awesome scale, props to you simcoug.

Thank you! Photoshop tutorials on the interwebs have been very helpful in that regard

mks24: Actually the only losers when it came to the transcontinental railroads was the United States government. Monetary handouts totaling $43,000,000, with no strings attached were given to the Union Pacific and Central Pacific. Between the large monetary donation and the myriad of so called companies such as Credit Mobilier and Contract and Finance company, very little money was invested by those building the railroads ( yet they profited handsomely ). As for the lush land grants, if they were lumped together as one state it would be the third largest. The railroads were mostly saddled with debt, while those building the lines profited handsomely all because of the faux companies.

It is of course completely within the realm of possibilities and something that a transcontinental line would have probably done back then.

I have to admire the story of New Sorgun, easily one of the best journals I read on here.

Thank you very much – I enjoy reading historical non-fiction, and it has proven useful in crafting the story for this region.

Jetty Jockey: I see your story telling skills continue to improve with each entry. You draw us in and take us on an exciting roller coaster ride through history, much like the "dime novels" of the period, ( albeit with better graphics and a more intelligent story line) . Many who follow this journal become emotionally invested in your story, eagerly awaiting the next turn of events . Again, outstanding work !

Thank you for the kind words Jetty. Comments like yours and by everybody else who responds makes it all the more enjoyable for me and keeps me invested in updated New SorGun.

Teaser time:

The winter of '73/'74 was the harshest anybody in the SorGun region could remember. To many, it was only matched by the despair felt around the town of New SorGun. So low were the pioneer's spirits, nobody noticed the first flowers poking through the snow dusted fields.

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