Welcome to the Great Trafford canyon

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Entry posted by B.C builder · August 15, 2013

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Hello and welcome to my new CJ

In my first entry (of this new CJ) we'll visit the city of Crown city, Fall city, Hutchinson-an old ghost town and the Benson Family ranch.

Some history:

The Great Trafford canyon is named after Duke Trafford, a reckless adventurer at the service of his Majesty the king of Lostoria. Mr. Trafford's canyon expedition began at July 1789, while chaos was day-to-day in far country named France. After months of fighting against the laws of nature, Trafford found this wonderful place nearly 1,200 miles away from the capital of Lostoria; Hulkopolis. Our explorer got lots of gold, jewels, weapons and other items from native people living there and brought this to our holy king, who were astonished by these treasures. When he was back from his trip in 1790 he got the status of Lord of the lords, which means that he had more authority than the lords of Lostoria but less than the king himself.

But this wasn't exactly what he expected, what he wanted was gold and a lot of space to live. So he decided to return to the canyon and he made it an independent country, far from his king. Of course the king disagreed Trafford's decision and declared him the war October the 4th of 1790.

15 years of fight, 15 years of struggling against a vicious kingdom...Trafford won theses battles thanks to his native companions who knew the canyon and how to repel the enemies. King Charles the 3rd of Lostoria accepted his defeat and accorded Trafford's independence on November the 5th of 1805.

Duke Trafford died 1833 at the age of 73 years. He had two sons, Elias and Theodore and a girl, Rose.

Now, let’s start with some pictures!

Fall city:

Blackfield corner:

The blackfield antenna, 300m high and high quality transmisson:

The Benson family ranch:

Richard and Margareta Benson have founded this farm 1852, since this year the farm is in family property:

The Benson Ranch has its own train station and differend kind of fields:

Hutchinson, one of the canyons oldest ghost towns:

After an economic boost of 30 years, due to discovery of gold, and silver, Hutchinson were abandonned by its population because all the mines were overexploited. Now you only have some houses and factories left:

Richardson steel mill and the Bush wagon factory:

This rail bridge is witness of better times:

Crown city:

Crown city is a nice small town located 20 miles away from Hutchinson. The city was established 1856 by one of Trafford's nephew. 1930 the whole city were destroyed by a violent fire and rebuild 5 years later.

But there still some old pre-war factories: