Eastern Railway Grand Line
The purpose of the Eastern Railway Grand Line is to link all of the cities and most of the towns on the East coast. Eastside, being located so close to the planned path of the rail, is thus included in it. The work on the rail began in the first three months of 1891, with heavy machines and engineers rumbling down from North-East.The city provided them with workforce and the clearing and leveling of the terrain began.
The low mountains north of Eastside made it impossible to pass rail throught them without spending a lot of time and effort, so a new plan was devised. The rail passed right through the most northern farms, located at the very last places of level ground.
An artsit interpretation of the construction works
Soon the stretches cutting through the farms were finished.
(actual footage)
Farms before building the railroad:
Farms after building the railroad:
Jebedia Ezekeel, a farmer whose farm was demolished beacuse the rail passed right through it was not pleased at all from this development
Mr. Ezekeel's farmland after the rail was completed:
To compensate mr. Ezekeel's losses, the city generously build a road for him and gave him the money for a new farm. That quickly fixed mr. Ezekeel's spite for the rail and he was even heard of promising to donate a land to the city for building a new park.
However, once the trains started moving on the frasly laid tracks, the farmer's joy quickly turned into anger, as he had to go through the railway crossing everyday and to time his timing perfectly to slip between the 300 trains travelling on the railroad.
Ezekeel's farm, with two trucks, utilizing a pause in the trains schedule:
But, as great everything was going, disaster struck. Heated by the enermous summer temperatures, the planks on the top of one of the houses in Eastside cauth fire! At that time there no firemen to battle the flames, so the house burned to the ground. But, as it crumbled to bits, one plank flew out and landed right across the street - at the hay stack! This unfortunate turn of events caused anotherhouse to be lsot to the dires. Withnesses of the disaster could only stay and watch (and one of them took puctures). No one was injured during the incident.
The burning down second house:
Fortunatelly, the fire didn't spread to the higly flamabble Industrial district, but this showed the citizens of Eastside the importancy of a proper fire brigade.
And here it is, Eastside's First Anti-fire Squad HQ
With this small distraction, all eyes were once more turned at the Eastern Railway Grand Line. And seven years after the first dig, the railway, passing through the town was finished, and all the stations were in place.
The rail coming from the Industrial district connects with the main rail:
At this time there were no interest in creating a passenger station, all three Eastside stations are freight ones.
First one - industry freight station;
Second and third one - grain silos for storing and easy loading of the agricultural goods.
Now Eastside is connected with the other major cities on the Coast, and is ready to start it's expansion.
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