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Railway comes into town

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 With the aproaching of the new decade Los Angeles is introduced to a new concept - the railway.

The Federal goverment has decided that it cannot keep its cities separated and has launched a massive railway program. For the last few years there was a real boom of clearing and leveling land, laying tracks and chasing the Indians out of there homelands, all at once. Now this new wave of transportation has reached LA.

 Since Eastside is closest to the already existing railroads, the rails that are going to be installed are funded by the Federal goverment and are running as straight through the farmland in the area as possible. The only thing that the town must pay for, is the extension reaching its industrial quarter, and to provide the workforce for the build.

Layout plan for the Eastern Railway Grand Line, passing through Eastside

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The installment of the new line is causing concern in the other two towns in the plains - Chinatown and Malibu. So, after long and tiring debates over few boxes of Old Tennessee No.7, the town elders have come up with a decision - to build a railtrack between Chinatown and Malibu! But, since this track is not funded by the Federal goverment, the way it is going to pass through the lands is much different.

Layout plan for the Chinatown-Malibu Rail Connection Track, linking the towns

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 As it can be seen from this picture, it will go through some very narrow gaps between the farms, almost without any destruction of crops and farmland.

As soon as this plan is voiced out to the people of both Malibu and Chinatown, it is put in the action. When experts from the capitol come into Eastside for ground evaluation and leveling, they are called quickly into the other two towns, where they can give an expert's opinion about the future rail connection.

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pretty cool. although i would make the rails curve a little more, not just straight/direct routes.
anyway keep it up

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DCMetro34: Thanks, I hope you come back and check it!

_marsh_: Yes, the people of alll three towns agree with you, but the Federal goverment is interested in the fastest way to connect all the cities on the East coast, so they cut right through. And the elders of Chinatown and Malubi decided, that since they have and open and almost flat plain streched between, they decided that making the rail tracks as straight as possible will be the best solution. Still, there are some nice curves where the rail changes direction

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Nice job. You probally should get rid of the straight grid of the RR line. Either attempt to follow the natural lay of the land and make it curve bend, etc, OR follow the coastline OR a hill (high-risen) type path. Both of these will give you the "natural growth" feel! Otherwise keep rockin!

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mightygoose
Yes, you are right, the tho west towns don't feel a great need for a immediate railway connection, but it is not nice to be left out on such a nation-wide project, so they took the thing in their own hands. But, as you will see after one or two entries, the heavy industry of Chinatown really liked the new rail.

naftixe
Yes, thank you. Your expert opinion is highly valued and will be takaen into consideration into future endeavors.
Unfortunatelly, the Eastern Railway Grand Line pasing through Eastside is a Federal project and is funded and directed by the goverment itself. So Eastside had little choice in the railtracks location. As of Malibu and Chinatown, the towns already have compleated the rail between them creating the best straight way between them. Sadly, this robbed many future generations from seeing a very beautiful land, not touched by human.

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