Thanks for the warm response to my new journal. As things progress you will be seeing more custom content, like rail stations and schools and fire/police stations. I'd like to focus on a few more of my first cities before I switch to some fairly recent cities I created. With that said, lets continue on...
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Continuing from last time, I will mention the two odd balls in Glenbroke, As seen in this picture, both involve the rail line. On the left you see a rather unusual highway underpass that shifts north about 112 meters. The second oddity is the apartment complex above a rail tunnel.

This apartment complex, named Railside Manor, is an old historic building dating back to Glendbroke’s inception. This manor proved too elegant to be destroyed when the railroad was realigned. So the solution was to dig and go under. This historic manor housed Glendbroke’s elite tourists from the surrounding region and only catered to the very best.
Glendbroke-Oct. 14, 471370652121 by
Harley Trader, on Flickr
Here is a close up of HWY 250 northern branch crossing under the railroad. My original intention here was to perform and elevated overpass above both the rail and 250N but limitations a few years ago prevented me from doing so. I did experiment recently with an elevated rail (didn’t save it), but I feel the underground road allows for me to have more liberties with the transitions and lets me imagine that the incline is more smooth than what it appears. Ignore the yellow image labels as this picture is just personal notes and thoughts I wrote out. I may try a L3 to L1 transition at some point to see if that looks good or not.

Enlarged Right Image:
Glendbroke-Oct. 2, 481450384582 by
Harley Trader, on Flickr
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Chapter 2: Velapoint
Let’s move just a bit north now and talk about the City of Velapoint. Created way back in 2003, this city has gone through a major rejuvenation a few years ago. I don’t have photos though, but like Glendbroke, this city looks drastically different from what it did ten years ago. A lot of this is due to the RHW and how it makes highways more realistic in size, and the sense that this city has lost it’s vastness, in my eyes, over the years. I want to illustrate and describe some key differences to what this city used to look like before its major renovation, so to do that I will overlay illustrations on a current screenshot.

Let's go closer...

and closer...for the wide shot of Velapoint...
Slide 2_6 by
Harley Trader, on Flickr
The big differences here in Velapoint are that the area under the green circle used to be all forest and resembled a more realistic miniature peninsula. The area under the blue shape was low shallow water, a marsh almost. Hwy 17, in white always remained the same and it is older, by five or six years, than Motorway 69, shown in green. Hwy 63, green and blue, was the major southern route and It intersected 17 before M-69 was build. It had a local alternate route, shown orange. Rt 8, violet, hasn’t changed much except for the eastern incline. The red Xs show borders that were added a few years ago when I added the RHW to this city.
Slide 2_7 by
Harley Trader, on Flickr
Bardon Park is the neighborhood that has taken the area of the old peninsula and forest on it. It has nice mid sized houses and parks around them. To the east side, Bardon Park boast a respectable sized business community with their own parking garage to attract commuters.
Bardon Park by
Harley Trader, on Flickr
The viaduct is actually quite useless and was built as an experiment to what I could do with the NAM at the time that specific version was released. I believe it was the first edition of the nam I used as well. I might remove the road and some of these walls around Bardon Park soon.

The rail line here used to go across diagonally to the lower right corner of the screen originally, right after passing the passenger station, making for an interesting crossing near route 8 and 63A.
Slide 2_10 by
Harley Trader, on Flickr
This oddity, It looks more strange in the next photo, is the result of realigning the highways around this industrial district and also now having to deal with a slope mod that didn’t exist when I built this area. So to compromise with the existing area and not tearing up everything here, since it is also on an incline, I decided to make just one road go down this hill and isolate this area as an industrial district. I might change this, but I don’t know when exactly.

Yes, I did use pedmalls as retention walls here!
Now for a mosaic...

Full Link:@@@@@Let's add some underground rail, to get around this motorway. I'll have more rail in the next update btw!
Slide 2_14 by
Harley Trader, on Flickr
Bonus Image of RR setup:
Velapoint-Sep. 25, 911370647304 by
Harley Trader, on Flickr
...and let's wrap things up for now showcasing the northwest corner of Velapoint, residential in nature with one old farm from back when this area was rural. The houses here really aren't that desirable since they are close to the rail line, but apparently this hasn't stopped people from living in them, must have some good soundproofing!

:)Thanks for reading
Teaser image of next update! Is that rail crossing a busy highway?