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Title: New Bordeaux
Post by: Engorn on October 13, 2008, 09:00:01 AM
Well, first of all, sorry for may english. I will try to improve it writing this MD, but please, be comprehensives with me, I'm trying to do my best.

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New Bordeaux is located in the northwest of the American continent, in the Strait of Georgia to be precise. It limits with Canada on the north and the east, with the British Columbia province, with the Lund River at the north and Mount Atmadja at the east to be precise, whereas in the south and west the region limits with the Strait of Georgia's waters.
The region was established on 1795 (january 30) by Paul Leclercq and Antoine de Prendregast. Although nowadays is an independent region, it has an economic and administrative arrangement with Canada, so the las one has some power over New Bordeaux, but in practice the region has a big politic and economic freedom.

New Bordeaux capital city is Mosman and the city it's divided in seven districts: Balmain, Epcot, Essen, Parramatta, Rushcutters, Ryde and Shatam for a better administrative organization. Those districts are subdivided on non-official neighborhoods or zones. Those zones aren't official, so make a map of the zones is impossible because there are not true borders of the zones, but the mosmites use them to situate better themselves inside the city because each district takes a wide portion of Mosman and it is not very practical to get orientated by districts.

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Balmain & Epcot: Those two districts are the most far-off the center of the city and they are basically constituted by residential zones of low density. One-family houses aligned or disarranged overrun the landscape of Balmain and Epcot. Both of them have some big zones like the Amesuri Golf Club in Epcot or the Soft Rocks Sports Area in Balmain.
Essen: It's a basically industrial district. The International Commercial Port of Essen (ICPE) is located here and nearly the 80% of the products fabricated in New Bordeaux come from this district. There are two main industrial centers in Essen. The biggest one is the Essen Bay Industrial Center, around the ICPE, and the other is the Wolf River Industrial Center, around the river of the same name.
Parramatta and Ryde: They are mainly two residential districts. They are very similar with each other and their landscape is conformed by medium density residential zones combined with some commercial nucleus. Industry is not out of those districts. The Wolf River Industrial Center arrives to Parramatta and Ryde has his own industrial zone in Homebush Bay where is located the Homebush Bay Harbour (HBH). In the border of the two districts is located the Ryde-Parramatta Golf Club. Ryde is also the host of the Paul Leclercq International Airport (PLQ). In fact, due the big size of the airport, this constitute a district itself.
Rushcutters: Here is where everything began. This is the first district of Mosman and where most of the official buildings are. The first of the two downtowns of the city, Procton Point, is located here. For year, the downtown was surrounded by a great medium density residential area, but in the last decades this zone has grown up very quickly. Most of this rise is due the reconversion of the old industrial zones into residential zones. Today Rushcutters is the district with more habitants in Mosman.
Shatam: This is the last district of Mosman to start growing up. Here are some of the most important commercial zones of the city as the downtown of Golden Apple or the Sim Metro Life Boulevard. Shatam is the most modern district in Mosman and some of the most important buildings of vanguard are located here.

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Name of the city: The name of the city becomes from the name that the first settlers gave to the First Nations of the region. They called them mothmen because they eat the dun butterfly (cryssinea apophis) very common in the Rushcutters Peninsula, exclusive of the region and which today forms part of the Mosman City Hall logo.

Official name: Republic of New Bordeaux.
Capital city: Mosman. (50º 1'N, 124º 44'O)
Most populted city: Mosman. (50º 1'N, 124º 44'O) 3.061.993 hab.
Official languages: English and French.
Other languages: Arab, Spanish, Chinese, Italian and Basque.
Government:Establishment: January 30th of 1795 by Paul Leclercq y Antoine de Prendregast.
Independence: Area:Population:Heigth: 0 m - 2.358 msnm (Mosman: 0 m - 164 m)
Max/min temperatures: (06/07 data)
Sotck Exchange Composite: NeBEX².
GDP (nominal):GDP (PPP):IDH: 0,973 Very high
Currency: Canadian dollar (C$ or CAD).
Demonym: Neobordeauxian (english), Neobordeauxien/Neobordeauxienne (french).
Time zone: Pacific (UTC-8)
Internet TLD: .nb
Calling code: +1 605
Radio code: VAA-VGZ
ISO code: 538 NBX NB
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Title: Re: New Bordeaux
Post by: GreekMan on October 13, 2008, 09:18:08 AM
woah! what a great start! looking forward to seeing some sc4 pics
Title: Re: New Bordeaux
Post by: M4346 on October 13, 2008, 09:51:45 AM
Great start! And looking forward to more!  ;D
Title: Re: New Bordeaux
Post by: Zaphod on October 13, 2008, 10:36:50 AM
Nice map, I like the location you chose.

There are lots of good terrain modds available for Pacific Northwestern terrian, so this one will look very realistic when it's done
Title: Re: New Bordeaux
Post by: Simpson on October 13, 2008, 10:46:57 AM
Nice map and also nice start of MD
Title: Re: New Bordeaux
Post by: art128 on October 13, 2008, 11:48:37 AM
Wow ! great maps  &apls looking foward to more picure  :thumbsup:
Title: Re: New Bordeaux
Post by: paratol on October 13, 2008, 11:49:23 AM
That's interesting :D I'm waiting for more
Title: Re: New Bordeaux
Post by: Engorn on October 13, 2008, 01:03:26 PM
Well, thanks for your comments.  :)

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The history of Mosman, and in consequence the history of New Bordeaux, is plenty of chronological gaps and the only well known date is the foundation date. Also, the telling of the happenings is not very accurate due the many versions of them, each one related from the point of view of the author. However, this one is the most accurate version possible, made taking those passages that were most probable to be veritable.

Last years of the 18th century. France is near to shake and burst into a revolution that will change the order all over the world. Some time before the French Revolution, the history of New Bordeaux began in Versailles, in the court of the king Louis XVI.
Two men, Paul Leclercq, count of Gascony, and Antoine de Prendregast, duke of Dijon. Instead their titles, their position in the court of the King of France and their reputation was questionable. In the last years, some events and misfortunes get their families to the ruin by the pass of the time along all the 17th century, so, when the titles arrived to Leclercq and Prendregast, they were mere shadows of what once they have been. Nothing more is known about those two persons before the beginning of their journey. In the court they were not very well received by those nobles whose families had keep their fortunes, and it looks like this was reciprocal. The historical lines start here to be confusing. Some people say that Louis XVI send those two men to a journey to find the Fountain of Youth for the king, and with this the honor will be restored on their families and maybe the fortunes too. The other historical line, and the most probably, say that this journey was a punishment from the king to the count and duke because they laughed of the idea of finding the Fountain of Youth.
However, mission or punishment, Prendregast and Leclercq, weighed anchor on board of the Saint Marie, on the command of 122 men and women.
Not very much is known about the years that they were sailing the oceans. Only we know that Leclercq, who takes the control of the mission, wrote a diary during their journey but it due the notes on the diary of Prendregast, seems to get lost during the first years of Mosman and it has never been found again.
Instead the limited pieces of information, we know that Leclercq and Prendregast pass few years on board of the Saint Marie sailing and searching for the Fountain of Youth, or at least stepping land to get new sailors, food and supplies.
Seven years later and probably tired of a useless search, they were in the (now called) Strait of Georgia, somewhere to the norwest of what today is the city of Vancouver, exploring a bay today known as Parramatta Bay. Is here where the memories of Prendregast appears. Leclercq has a mild illness and he was retired to his cabin. During his illness Prendregast took control of the expedition. It was January of the year 1795.

After taking control of the situation I ordered to the sailors to take the ship inside this narrow and deep bay. The helmsman, Ignacio Azkoaga, a young Basque and the only one that remains from the original expedition, obeyed immediately and we get inside another water tongue. It makes a week that we are exploring this bay and I am steel surprised of the great number of butterflies that there are, and more the estrange natives that eat them. The Scottish sailors that we get the last month call them "mothmen".
We, both of us, Leclercq and me, are bored of this journey. We are going to build a settlement somewhere along the bay.


So, that show us that Prendregast and Leclercq had thrown away the idea of find the Fountain of Youth. At the moment, in France, the French Revolution was in her highest moment. The expedition of Leclercq and Prendregast was forgotten time ago and nobody reminds of them.
The place selected by Predregast is what we know today as Darlin Harbour (Darling Harbour at the beginning, but the G of the end was lost and win a extra U with the time). There, the first settlers built a palisade and houses. Some archaeological remains of the palisade were found some years ago. With the pass of the time this settlement grew up and became to what today is Mosman.

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Today, Darlin Harbour is a combination of street theater, subway exchange and the ferry terminal for all the Mosmites that live in Ryde or Parramatta and whose have their works on the downtown. In the 19th century all the harbor were cargo docks. Today those have been replaced with pier for leisure boats and the harbor has many attractions as the Darlin Harbour Market, expensive shops, museums or the aquarium.
From his foundation to the end of the 18th century, during the 19th century and the beginning of the 20th century, Darlin Harbour was like his first years. It was on 1906 when a fire destroyed the biggest part of the harbor and only a few buildings get save. Maybe the biggest loss was the ship were Leclercq and Prendregast arrived to the region, the Saint Marie. After the fire, the Regional Goverment built a reply of the ship and now it can be visited as a museum of the journey of Leclercq and Prendregast.

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This steam boat is the "Pride of Mosman" and is the first ship that in times, offered the commercial line between Mosman and Vancouver, route that it needed four days to complete (to go and get back). Today this route it's done in less than half a day and the Pride of Mosman like the reply of the Saint Marie became a museum too.

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The Darlin Harbour Market is one of the few survivors of the fire in 1906 and one of the older witness of the development of the city. The market started being once a month but with the development of the city it became to be once a week, then twice a week, Wednesdays and Saturdays. Today, due the tourism, the market is open all the days of the week, within Sundays, day to rest for the merchants. There, Mosmites or visitors can find anything, from food to carpets, wools, kitchen accesories or decorative objects.

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The Darlin Harbour Castle was built during the conflict between New Bordeauxians and Bristish, to defend the harbor. The castle never get used as a defensive building because British never attacked from the north, they did it always from the south. However the tower of the castle was used the first years as sit of the government. Before it was converted to prison a it was used for that just to 1910. From that year to 1986 the tower was empty without any use, when, after a year of works, the "Museum of Mosmite lure" was opened. The walls and the gardens can be visited to get some beautiful views of the Parramatta Bay and the harbor.

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The little Church of St. Augustine gaze the Darlin Harbour nearly from the foundation of the city. The church is another of the survivors of the fire o 1906, maybe due to its elevated position. The inside of the church, like the outside, is simple and cold without any decoration. The most eye-catching is the red color of the church and this fact is also the most mysterious. Nobody knows why the color of the church is red.

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The aquarium was built in circa 1980 and it has more than 200 of different species. A lot of Mosmites and tourist come to spend a morning or a evening watching fishes, sea horses, dolphins, sharks and all the sea fauna that is host here.

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This auditory located on the heart of the harbor provides amusement to the Mosmites most of the days of the year. Here, every year is performed the International Folk Festival of Mosman or other many events.
Title: Re: New Bordeaux
Post by: papab2000 on October 13, 2008, 02:03:29 PM
Nice update  :thumbsup:
Title: Re: New Bordeaux
Post by: art128 on October 14, 2008, 03:27:46 AM
very nice update  :thumbsup:
Title: Re: New Bordeaux
Post by: south park on October 14, 2008, 09:48:33 AM
beautiful update and nice start !! :)
Title: Re: New Bordeaux
Post by: Engorn on October 31, 2008, 01:58:08 PM
Well, I'm back.

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Rushcutters is in a few words, the heart of Mosman. In this district we can find places like Darlin Harbour, Procton Point, Industrial Mile, The Moodyville's Treatment Square, Bicentennial Park or the Fountain of Youth Park, all of that consequence of being the first district of the city.
After the settlement of the first settlers in Darlin Harbour the city grew up inland to places that today we know as West Rushcutters and Procton Point. On this way, there's nothing unusual about that with the pass of the centuries the place that became the downtown was Procton Point. Soon this area of Rushcutters became the neuralgic center of the city and then, the City Hall was placed here as the first rail station of the region, some gubernatorial buildings and a large list of skyscrapers.

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Today most of the mosmites ignore the reasons that carried to the founders of the city to those cold coasts instead the Fountain of Youth Park (also known as the Centennial Park), commemorative of the first century of the city. The fountain of the park symbolizes the Fountain of Youth that Leclercq and Prendregast were searching for the French king, fountain that they never found. The fountain and the park were unveiled on 1895 january 30th with a big celebration in all the city.
Crossing the avenue we can find the Founders Park. However today most people consider this park part of the Fountain of Youth Park. In the park there is a statue of Leclercq and Prendregast, founders of the city, onto one of the masts of the Saint Marie. Near the park is located the Mosman City Hall (left side of the image), a big mass of the beginning of the 20th century, which facade was restored for the second centenary of the city.

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In the border of Procton Point we can find the MCB Arena (Mosman City Bank Arena), site of the NHL Mosman Wizards but also can host concerts, boxing fights, sumo or any other kind of event. The MCB Arena is next to the Moodyville's Treatment Square. The square was built to commemorate the treatment in which the British government accepted that New Bordeaux was an independent region.
Crossing the Museum Drive, one of the greatest avenues in Mosman, we can find the most important museums in Mosman: the Museum of Natural History of Mosman and the Fine Arts Museum.

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The last years of the 19th century and the three first decades of the 20th century were of great prosperity for the city. Procton Point, the first downtown of the city grew up around the Fountain of Youth Park when the architectural style of the Chicago's School arrived to the west coast, becoming a great place to host new enterprises. Just to the crack of 1929. After the Great Depression, instead the fast recovery, the city didn't grew up a lot because those enterprises that get recovered or the new ones, took the places of those that disappeared with the downturn. Until the 70's, the skyline of Procton Point didn't change, and in this decade only two buildings were built in the downtown. After those two buildings the place stayed intact until 1987 when the construction of new skyscrapers was started instead the complaints of the citizens whose didn't like the changes that the city was undergoing.

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Title: Re: New Bordeaux
Post by: TheTeaCat on October 31, 2008, 02:17:16 PM
Just Had a good chance to read over your md :thumbsup:
Impressive very impressive. &apls &apls

You are off to a good start here, keep it up and you'll have a winner  :thumbsup:

:satisfied:
TTC
Title: Re: New Bordeaux
Post by: Jmouse on November 02, 2008, 08:15:14 PM
Great maps, Engorn, you've made a fine start on your region. The harbour is very impressive, and you've included some really nice shots of the parks and other points of interest. I like your use of the various walls, too. The development of New Bordeaux is certainly worth watching.

Later...
Joan
Title: Re: New Bordeaux
Post by: Earth quake on November 03, 2008, 01:55:04 AM
Wow, just splendid Engorn.  :thumbsup:

I like the CBD, simply but really realistic.  &apls

Ps: Tiens bienvenue sur Sc4 devotion.  :thumbsup:
Title: Re: New Bordeaux
Post by: Sciurus on November 03, 2008, 02:30:36 AM
Very good city! &apls
Title: Re: New Bordeaux
Post by: kbieniu7 on November 03, 2008, 04:11:02 AM
Nice, but here is too maxis $$$ skyscrapers for me :P
Title: Re: New Bordeaux
Post by: Engorn on November 03, 2008, 12:24:30 PM
 :) Oh, thanks for everyone. Earth Quake... ¿What's a CBD? ???
Title: Re: New Bordeaux
Post by: Sheep49 on November 03, 2008, 12:30:51 PM
CBD is another word for the central part of city with high-rises and skyscarpers. I think it is the same as downtown.

Anyway, great MD! In the second picture, though, there is the attack of repeated building! Arrghh! Do something with that :D But the mosaic is really magnificent! I wouldn't be angry if I've made one that looks like yours. ;) BTW, have you tried lotting? Because you might be pretty good at that, 'cause you care about every detail ;)

Keep up the good work! &apls
Piotr

EDIT: Yep, it's 'Central Buisness District', at least that's what my English teacher told me ;)
Title: Re: New Bordeaux
Post by: art128 on November 03, 2008, 12:32:10 PM
the last update is really great  :thumbsup:
Title: Re: New Bordeaux
Post by: Engorn on November 03, 2008, 02:13:28 PM
OK, thanks Sheep49 for the information, and you to art128 for your comment.

And yes, I tried lotting and I have some lots of my own but they are very few and for some specific places like the "Paul Leclercq International Airport" or the "Pere la Chaise Cemetery".
Title: Re: New Bordeaux
Post by: Heblem on November 03, 2008, 08:01:49 PM
Very nice done! I like your downtown area, as we can call it right?

Looking forward to your next update  ;)
Title: Re: New Bordeaux
Post by: kelis on November 04, 2008, 07:31:37 AM
Very Nice City!!


Bueniiiisima la ciudad compañero :D
Title: Re: New Bordeaux
Post by: Engorn on November 08, 2008, 04:30:18 AM
Well, I'm ready for more.

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The City Hall of the great metropolis of Mosman is located in the 165th of the Paul Leclercq Avenue, and it was opened on 1932 December 15th after five years of construction. With 26 floors, this jewel of the Art Deco is one of the most tallest municipal buildings in North America. Since it was opened, the municipal govern and the district delegation of Rushcutters have their seat on this building and twelve different mayors have passed through it, some of them such illustrious as Guy Carson or Frank Kepler that in their times they knew how to make the city grow up on big jumps. Today, the mayor of the city is Lionel Linus.
Next to the City Hall we find the Watteaw Rail Station, the first rail station on New Bordeaux therefore the beginning of the first railroad between Mosman and Vancouver, a railroad which construction took sixteen years because of the difficult terrain that separates the two cities and near a 49% of the way is make through tunnels.

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The host of the Mosman Stock Exchange is located in the number 1 of the Prendregast Avenue, in the west border of Procton Point. In the past this building was the first seat of the Mosman City Bank, today the most important bank in "Mundo CSC", until it was moved to Golden Apple, the second downtown of Mosman. The legend says that in the old days the place where now is located the building, was the meeting point for dealers and usurers of New Bordeaux, even foreigners. There they close their deals, usually with unlawful ways. However nowadays, the stock exchange is a boiling place that helps the New Bordeauxian economy to be ready, a modern and increasing economy regulated by the NeBEX² (New Bordeaux Exchange Index), the composite of New Bordeaux.

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The Central Post Office of the New Bordeaux post service is located in the east border of Procton Point, next the Procton Point subway station, the central station of the metropolitan service. Every day 23'000 dispatches are traded by the employees of this building. As a curiosity we have to say that the Prendregast Avenue pass through the building.
Title: Re: New Bordeaux
Post by: Jmouse on November 09, 2008, 07:51:20 PM
Good job, Engorn. I especially like the post office with a road through the middle of it! Never seen anything like that before, but it's a good idea - gives the postal vehicles an inside track!

Later...

Joan
Title: Re: New Bordeaux
Post by: blade2k5 on November 15, 2008, 04:45:36 PM
I remember that old post office :thumbsup:  I hadn't used it in so long, I'd forgotten about it.  Good start for New Bordeaux, I look forward to the next update :thumbsup:
Title: Re: New Bordeaux
Post by: metarvo on November 15, 2008, 05:40:41 PM
This is a lovely urban MD, Engorn.  Founders Park looks like a fine place to relax, and the skyline is also very good. :thumbsup:
Title: Re: New Bordeaux
Post by: bat on November 16, 2008, 02:38:21 AM
Fantastic start there on your MD!
And wonderful first updates with great pictures!
Your city looks beautiful!
Looking forward to more... ;)
Title: Re: New Bordeaux
Post by: Engorn on November 27, 2008, 04:17:47 AM
Well, first of all, thanks for your messages.

Quote from: Jmouse on November 09, 2008, 07:51:20 PM
Good job, Engorn. I especially like the post office with a road through the middle of it! Never seen anything like that before, but it's a good idea - gives the postal vehicles an inside track!
Yes, I wanted to say that but I just didn't find the words... Thanks ;)

And now, to work...

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The Essen Airport (ESX) was built to relieve the mercantile traffic of the Paul Leclercq International Airport (PLQ) and to make easier the distribution of the products fabricated in the industry located around the Essen Bay. It has two terminals, one for commercial flights and another for mercantile flights. This airport connects only with Canadian airports because it's not an international airport such as the Paul Leclercq International Airport.

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Terminal A has 18 gates that connect the habitants of New Bordeaux with the cities of Canada. Any flight to Canada or arriving from there arrives (or departs) from the Essen Airport, so the Paul Leclercq hasn't flights to Canada.

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The Terminal B, as his great sister, has only flights to Canada but those are mercantile flights.

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Hope you liked. I still have to show you the Paul Leclercq International Airport, but is much more bigger so it will take some time...
Title: Re: New Bordeaux
Post by: rooker1 on November 27, 2008, 04:40:37 AM
Great work on the airport, Engorn.
&apls
Robin  :thumbsup:
Title: Re: New Bordeaux
Post by: bat on November 27, 2008, 08:10:20 AM
That's a wonderful airport! Great work on it!!! Nice mosaic... :thumbsup:
Title: Re: New Bordeaux
Post by: Engorn on December 20, 2008, 06:54:15 AM
And here we go... (again)

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At the middle of the 20th Century the Mosman port authority saw that the Homebush Bay Port, in Ryde, was too small to support the heavy traffic of freight goods of the region. So, they decide to create a new harbor in the Essen Bay. The beginnings of the port were very humbles, even the previsions. Two small piers were built near the limit between Essen and Rushcutters, but those soon get saturated due the growing New Bordeauxian economy.


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Primitive wharfs of the harbor.

The first enlargement relied on two new piers, one of the for bulks, specially designed to load the ships with the coal extracted from the mines on Mount Atmadja. Nowadays those piers are used for minor loads and recently they were reformed to host a ferry station to connect those exterior piers with the old interior piers of the Essen International Mercantile Harbor. Like the two first piers of the EIMH, those get obsolete in few years.

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Primitive wharfs of the harbor.

After those two great prevision mistakes, the port authority decided to make a new enlargement, but in this time to make it twice bigger of what the previsions said, so the extension of the harbor was multiplied, arriving to the external coast of the bay. A lot of freight and bulk piers were built in the estuary of the River Essen. Nowadays those wharfs are a seething mass of frenetic activity of load and download of merchant ships with containers, in bulk or vehicles. However the human presence is very scarce because near all the process of load and download is computerized and the cranes do their work automatically, carrying the goods from the ship to the wharf or vice versa.

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Wharfs in the right side of the bay.

One of the Mosmite enterprises that revolutionized the harbor was Mostrol, the New Bordeauxian oil company. The needs of the company demanded the building of a refinery. The problem was that due the situation of the harbor at that moment was impossible to carry the crude from the coast to a refinery situated outdoors of the port, so the solution was to create a artificial island inside the bay and build there the refinery.

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Refinery of the Essen International Mercantile Harbor.

Another of the interesting points of the harbor is the shipyard. There all the New Bordeauxian ships are built, and some Canadian and American too. However, this shipyard is not property of the New Bordeaux Government, but of a foreign shipowner enterprise.

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Shipyard of the harbor.

Till seven years ago, the entrance of the harbor was fully opened, without breakwaters, because the Straight of Georgia is not considered as open sea, but after so many complains of the captains, two breakwaters were built in the estuary of the bay and they used those to build some windmills and an advanced place for the oil ships to download the petrol.

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Entrance of the harbor.

On December of 1998 a great storm slammed Mosman. The strong winds untied the moors of the "Pride of Seattle" and the ship get adrift. In those days the exterior breakwaters did not exist, so the vessel, without crew, went near a mile inside the Straight of Georgia till ran aground this islet. Nowadays many divers are attracted by this ship and they explore it, seeing the amazing natural life that has been formed around the rusty hull of the ship.

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Pride of Seattle run aground

And here is a extra image ;)

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Title: Re: New Bordeaux
Post by: cowcorn on December 28, 2008, 05:49:03 PM
Wow! The seaport is just great. It looks very dense and crowded, which make me thnk you've worke a lot to make everything fit together. Great job! :thumbsup:
Title: Re: New Bordeaux
Post by: Sciurus on December 29, 2008, 04:08:20 AM
Woaw! Very great work on this airport and this port! :thumbsup:
But, I observed there 2 CJs, who named like a french City: Laon (Aisne,02), and New Bordeaux (Gironde,33) :D
Title: Re: New Bordeaux
Post by: Engorn on December 29, 2008, 05:16:20 AM
Quote from: sciurus54 on December 29, 2008, 04:08:20 AM
But, I observed there 2 CJs, who named like a french City: Laon (Aisne,02), and New Bordeaux (Gironde,33) :D
Well, as you surely know, New Bordeaux isn't a French city (Bordeaux yes, but no New Bordeaux :P ). Read the story of the region and you will know the origin of the name of this region mon ami ;)
Title: Re: New Bordeaux
Post by: Sciurus on December 30, 2008, 05:11:15 AM
Ok, thanks :thumbsup:
Title: Re: New Bordeaux
Post by: Engorn on January 05, 2009, 11:48:31 AM
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Fly Mosman (the New Bordeauxian airline), jointly with PionAir (Pionesia (http://foro.capitalsim.net/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=9479&start=0)), as a part of the promotion launched by the Pionesian airline, launches some flying bargains from and to the most important airports of different regions to boost the Karjak ski hill, at 45 minutes from the Mosman city center, placed in the majestic Mount Atmadja, sacred mountain of the First Nations of New Bordeaux. Come and enjoy 38 exciting ski slopes located between the elevations of 1.250m and 2.358m (1.108 meters of disparity/3635,17 feet of disparity), where even beginners as experts will find what they search during all the year since Karjal never closes due the Mount Atmadja stays snowcapped all the year, and all that for 47'75C$/day (28€) adults and 38'35C$/day (22'50€) children from 6 to 11 years.

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Title: Re: New Bordeaux
Post by: rooker1 on January 05, 2009, 11:55:49 AM
Wow....

Love the ski hill, very realistic looking.
&apls
Robin  :thumbsup:
Title: Re: New Bordeaux
Post by: Pat on January 05, 2009, 12:20:55 PM
Sweet looking Ski hill there wow!!! That looks like what I got around here for here for sure!!!  :thumbsup:
Title: Re: New Bordeaux
Post by: bat on January 06, 2009, 03:21:57 AM
Nice work on that ski hill there! Looking forward to more... :thumbsup:
Title: Re: New Bordeaux
Post by: threestooges on January 06, 2009, 06:40:21 PM
Very nice ski resort, and great use of the resort hotels. The trail map looks good, and the peope added in look neat too. Any rooms available?
Title: Re: New Bordeaux
Post by: Engorn on January 24, 2009, 07:06:56 AM
Quote from: threestooges on January 06, 2009, 06:40:21 PMAny rooms available?
Any as you want. ;)

Well, as I promised, here comes the Paul Leclercq International Airport.

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In this first picture we can see the eight terminals of the airport, part of the parkings, because de T3, T4, T5, T6, T7 and T8 have underground parkings, the Intermodal Stations of bus, subway and taxi and the five runways and the taxiways.
The connexion between terminals are made by an internal web of subway, supplementary to the metro lines of  L1 Round St.-Paul Leclercq International and L5 Central Library-Paul Leclercq International.

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The Terminal 1 (that in the reality it's little bit bigger), is the first terminal being built of the Paul Leclercq International Airport. In a first instance it supported every flight of the airport, such as nationals and internationals, but nowadays is reserved to the national flights and those international flights with a low transit. It was constructed between 1951 and 1956 (09/27 runway included, now 09C/27C). Since it was built there have been some many remodeling works, in 1991-1992 in its external look (to make it look like the new T2), and after in 1999-2000 when it was modified interiorly to fit it to its new functions of national flights terminal, wich it had take many years before.

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This is the second terminal of the airport. After his construction between 1960 and 1966, the T1 took the function of arrivals terminal, and the T2 became the departs terminal, both of them for national and international flights. Nowadays, like the T1, this terminal is reserved for national and low transit international flights.
The T2 preservers its original aesthetic, but in 1998-1999 its interior was remodeled when its function changed with the construction of the big sisters of T1 and T2: the Terminals 3 and 4.

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The terminals 3 and 4 were built at the same time between 1990 and 1997. Both of them were designed to support the heavy and growing request of international flights of the Paul Leclercq International Airport. Designed to shelter a great number of "jumbos", the three new runways (09L/27R, 18L/36R and 18R/36L) were built in consequence (and after the 09/27 runway was remodeled becoming 09R/27L for the moment). With all this things the capacity of the airport increased considerably, but soon the need of making the airport bigger was evident.

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Those two terminals have space for 39 planes, six of them "jumbos". So the T5 and T6 are bigger than the T1 and T2 together and they are bigger than the T3 or T4, relieving considerably the passengers traffic saturation in the other four terminals.
This impressive terminal has two arms. In the T5 and T6 are the new headquarters of Fly Mosman and those terminals are for the exclusive use of the mosmite airline.

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The air traffic in New Bordeaux was constantly growing and new airlines from other regions appeared, so soon was needed to enlarge the airport again. The T7 made up for this need. In it, small international flights, but with a high transit, arrive and deppart. With the construction of the T7 a new runway was built, the 09R/27L (the old 09R/27L became at last 09C/27C). However, the T7 cant handle big planes as the T3 or T4, and those terminals were getting small for the airport needs.

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As the T7 was built for the small planes traffic, after the T8 was built for bigger planes. This one, is the most modern and advanced terminal of the airport, and it has the most advanced technologies of telemetry to monitoring the baggages, a fully automatized system of baggage distribution to their respective plane, a four stars hotel and a long etcetera. Without chance of doubt, is the terminal of the future.

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Mosman, instead a important comercial focus, has a strong industry that grows every day, and the products manufactured and not consumed in New Bordeaux, had to be exported in any way. Most of this products get off of New Bordeaux in ship from the PCIE or from the Homebush Bay Harbor. But some of items are transported in planes, and those planes are loaded in the Freight Terminal A. The new bordeauxian courier company, GlobEx, has here its headquarters.

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PlaneB, a enterprise from Cabo Azul that makes planes, has a production plant in New Bordeaux. Nowadays in this plant, are made some parts of the fuselage of the PlaneB Pl-2100 "Ecoliner" and of the PlaneB Pl-2200, such as some other pieces of those planes. In the picture we can see how the front section of a Pl-2100 "Ecoliner" is loaded into a Velluga to be transported to the main plant of PlaneB, were it will be assembled with the other pieces of the plane.
Title: Re: New Bordeaux
Post by: Sciurus on January 24, 2009, 07:13:32 AM
I love this aurort, and particullary the overview (http://img266.imageshack.us/img266/1821/aeropuertodz3.png) wich is impressive! &apls
Title: Re: New Bordeaux
Post by: Schulmanator on January 24, 2009, 08:01:07 AM
Truly an impressive airport. Very nice indeed.  &apls
Title: Re: New Bordeaux
Post by: Engorn on February 09, 2009, 06:37:23 AM
Great, thanks for your coments. :)

I hope that the next week will be some more of New Bordeaux... ;)
Title: Re: New Bordeaux
Post by: Pikatchoum on February 16, 2009, 02:44:43 AM
Huge airport. Good job. The terminals are great.
Title: Re: New Bordeaux
Post by: Battlecat on February 16, 2009, 08:50:20 AM
Very impressive!  That's a cool airport you've got there.  Nice variety of terminal components!
Title: Re: New Bordeaux
Post by: thundercrack83 on February 22, 2009, 03:12:13 AM
WOW!

How did I miss this for so long? Please forgive me for not commenting here before, Engorn. I apologize sincerely!

New Bordeaux is absolutely fantastic! The airport terminals, the port facilities--and that ski resort? That's one of the most creative things I've seen in quite some time.

It's been a pleasure admiring your work here, and I will be waiting eagerly to see what you have for us next!

Take care,

Dustin
Title: Re: New Bordeaux
Post by: bat on February 26, 2009, 10:25:25 AM
That's a great airport, nice pictures of it! It looks wonderful! :thumbsup:
Title: Re: New Bordeaux
Post by: Neofita on February 26, 2009, 01:22:07 PM
i wait for mor pictures.Nice &apls
Title: Re: New Bordeaux
Post by: kbieniu7 on February 27, 2009, 06:01:16 AM
Excellent airport. Great work  :thumbsup:
Title: Re: New Bordeaux
Post by: guurgkud on February 27, 2009, 10:41:00 AM
That is one of the most beautiful airports I've ever seen!
Good work  :thumbsup:
Title: Re: New Bordeaux
Post by: Engorn on September 13, 2009, 02:40:46 PM
After a long time without any update, here is another one.

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The Jericho National Park is located on the west extreme of the Rushcutters Peninsula, in Shatam. Actually is the last the last redoubt of wild life in the peninsula and fortunately this place is is respected and venerated by all the mosmites. Most of the park flora is composed by western red-cedars and ferns, while among the fauna we can find moose, deers, rabbits, foxes, a great variety of birds, reptiles and insects, like the dun butterfly (cryssinea apophis), the typical butterfly of Mosman. The park is composed by the extreme of the Rushcutters Peninsula and Rockwood Island. The park is a little tease of how was the peninsula, and most of New Bordeaux, before the colonization: a great western red-cedar forest, from Jericho Point to the highest point of the Mount Atmadja.
The access for humans is free but sleeping is allowed only in the few refuges of the park, whereas making fire is completely forbidden all around the park. Despite a road that goes through the park, the traffic is very restricted and is nearly used only for emergency vehicles or for supplies.

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At the entrance of the park we can find a little information hut that serves as park museum and snack bar for visitors. Also there is the park-guard post and al little camping where visitors can spend the night. This camping, with the refuges of the park, is the only place where is allowed to spend the night.

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One of the main attractions of the park are the Carrion Rocks, a three rocks set located next to the sea. Those rocks show a mineral composition completely different to the rest of the rocks of New Bordeaux. This fact, added to the estrange mushroom form of the rocks, make the Carrion Rocks a complete mystery for hundreds of geologists that they are studying the for decades. Some mosmites, mostly the sensationalists ones and enthusiasts of paranormal things, declare that the rocks were put there by "intelligent beings of the outside".
Next to the Carrion Rocks there is a jetty to connect the peninsula with the Rockwood Island. Today, instead of being used to its initial purpose is used to enter on the park by those that want arrive sailing instead walking to visit the Carrion Rocks.

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On Rockwood Island there is another jetty to tie up the boats of those who arrive from the jetty of the Carrion Rocks. On this island we can find one of the two refuges of the park. Anyway, this is the most virgin part of the park since there is no road on the island.
Title: Re: New Bordeaux
Post by: joelyboy911 on September 13, 2009, 02:55:59 PM
Very nice work with mayor mode flora! I love the plop rocks and those trees. Lovely boat ramp.
Title: Re: New Bordeaux
Post by: Glowbal on September 13, 2009, 02:57:37 PM
Very nice! I never saw this MD; but it has some really nice pictures!
Title: Re: New Bordeaux
Post by: Engorn on September 15, 2009, 03:14:50 AM
Glowbal, maybe you didn't see it because it was on the Inactive MDs section. Annyway, thank you for posting you both. :)
Title: Re: New Bordeaux
Post by: Sciurus on September 15, 2009, 04:06:11 AM
Very very nice &apls

Guillaume :thumbsup:
Title: Re: New Bordeaux
Post by: Glowbal on September 15, 2009, 04:47:00 AM
Quote from: Engorn on September 15, 2009, 03:14:50 AM
Glowbal, maybe you didn't see it because it was on the Inactive MDs section. Annyway, thank you for posting you both. :)

oh I look in the inactive MDs section every once in a while. But it's full with MDs. I would never look at every MD that's around.  :D
Title: Re: New Bordeaux
Post by: citymax on September 15, 2009, 02:35:00 PM
Great !!
Title: Re: New Bordeaux
Post by: Engorn on September 22, 2009, 01:41:23 PM
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Bicentennial Park was inaugurated on 1995 to commemorate the second centenary of the region foundation as the Centennial Park was built for the first centenary. Obviously inspired on New Yorks Central Park, Bicentennial Park has 36 hectares opposite the 341 hectares of the new yorker park. The common components of both parks are the Reservoir (wich takes the name directly from the Central Parks Reservoir), the zoo, the sportive installations, a museum and etc., but in a smaller scale.

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The Reservoir is a pond built to supply the city in case of lack of water. It's filled with water that cames from Mount Atmadja, conducted by pipes and then the water gets stagnant on it. Although there is a river that crosses the park, it has not current. Actually is a fake river and the pond drainpipe it's at the bottom of the pond, which is the way to supply the city with water. Actually, with the current number of inhabitants the water capacity of the Reservoir it's only enough to supply the city barely during two days and in the case of following with the same pace of growth, soon it will be useless.

The Flora House it's a little free pass botanic garden where the visitors can find near of 100 species of different flowers, plants and bushes. As a curiosity of this botanic garden built on the art deco style, served to recover the population of the brown butterfly (cryssinea apophis), typical of New Bordeaux and which in the last decades of the twentieth century began to become extinct. Soon after the opening of the gardens a numerous group of those butterflies appeared on the building. The butterflies where studied by some biologists from the New Bordeaux Univerity and they stablished that the brown butterfly was very attracted by the ipomoea imperati, flower typical of North America and invader, but which with the past of the years it had loss presence on New Bordeaux with the consistent disappearance of the brown butterflies. Because of this, the neobordeauxian authorities had planted many of those ipomoea imperati around all Mosman to recover the butterfly that appears in the logo of the region.

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The little zoo of Bicentennial Park, of free access too, it's on of the favorite places for the families of Mosman, as for locals than for visitors. See and feed the animals can bee a great experience, above all for the younger ones of the family. Instead of relying with some exotic species, the animals of this modest zoo came from animal farms whose specimens were orphaned, most of them because the fault of the poachers, so the zoo gives them the opportunity to follow with their lives. The only two animals that aren't in the park because this situation are the couple of giant panda (male and female) given by the Chinese Government on 2002.

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As Central Park has the Met, Bicentennial Park has the Park Museum. In it are shown usually modern art works, although some retrospectives of authors of past centuries are shown too. Nowadays it's part of the park, but the museum was built many years before the park. In fact, Bicentennial Park is an amplification of the Museum Park that was located behind the museum.

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Title: Re: New Bordeaux
Post by: soulchaser on September 22, 2009, 02:00:04 PM
Wow...these are beutifull pics of the park/zoo/sportsarea/botanical garden!!!
Title: Re: New Bordeaux
Post by: Glowbal on September 22, 2009, 11:17:48 PM
Amazing! Don't have any other words for it.. That sure is one of the best parks i've ever seen in sc4.  :thumbsup:
Title: Re: New Bordeaux
Post by: BarbarossaS on September 23, 2009, 01:41:08 AM
Excellent put together zoo you've got there!  &apls &apls
I'm amazad at how much greenspace there seems to be in the center of your city  :thumbsup:

-Stijn-
Title: Re: New Bordeaux
Post by: Engorn on September 23, 2009, 01:29:39 PM
Thanks for the comments. :)

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Today has arrive to Mosman the Simlympic Torch on the sixth day of the torch relay for the XI Simlympic Games.

This is the route map of the torch through Mosman.

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The torch has arrive to Mosman coming from Petrova, where yesterday the torch did his route, directly to the T8 of the Paul Leclercq Int Airport. It was foreseen that the plain will arrive to the airport at 11:00 GMT-8, but some problems with the wather have delayed the flight.

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Immediately the NBOC president Michal J. Tayllerand has been the first carrier of the torch, who has run with the torch from the Paul Leclercq International Aiport to the vicinity of the Ryde-Parramatta University Arena, where he gave the torch to the Mayor of Mosman Lionel Linus, who ran with it between the arena to the little jetty on the Oak Lake, where he boarded on a little boat in which he sailed across the Oak River, arriving to Bellemore. There the famous TV presenter Madison Gwendal took the relay and got on a bus in which she covered the road between Bellemore and the Bicentennial Park.

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Between Bellemore and the Bicentennial Park the bus passed through the Brunnel Bridge, one of the two bridges that connects the Rushcutters Peninsula with Ryde-Parramatta.

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Near the zoo of the Bicentennial Park, Madison Gwendal gave the torch to the football and actor Augustus Cole, who ran with the torch just to nearby the NBBC headquarters, where cyclist Anthony Fontana took the torch and pedaled to arrive to the Moodyville Treatment Square.

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There the torch passed to the chief of the Mosman Police Department, Guillaume Barbereau, who ran with the torch from the Moodyville Square to the Simlympic Stadium on the Industrial Mile.

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Before the stadium the same man, Guillaume Barbereau carried the torch to the Circular Quay near the Simlympic Park where as the Mayor of Mosman, he embarked on a motor boat to arrive to the Shatams Head Ferry Terminal.

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There he gave the torch to Enoch Leclercq, one descendants of Paul Leclercq, founder of the region. He carried the torch from the ferry terminal to the Occident Station on the Sim Metro Life Boulevard where the relay was taken by Guillaume Bendejacq, another cyclist.

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He ran with the torch in is bicycle till the las quarter of the boulevard, where he gave the torch to Daniel Azkoaga, the General Minister of New Bordeaux, who ran with the torch till the Atlantis Square, the end of the torch path through Mosman.

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Title: Re: New Bordeaux
Post by: Battlecat on September 23, 2009, 03:44:48 PM
Awesome batch of updates!  I really like that national park, that's a beautiful vast area of natural forest!   Everything in the latest update looks amazing, that's quite the celebration on the go!

The cruise ship terminal in your last update really jumps out at me, where did you get that set of lots? 
Title: Re: New Bordeaux
Post by: BarbarossaS on September 24, 2009, 12:22:22 AM
Nice work with the simlympics, it looks fantastic.
Love those crowds!  &apls &apls

-Stijn-
Title: Re: New Bordeaux
Post by: Engorn on October 28, 2009, 03:02:45 AM
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Being a small region and with only a big city, New Bordeaux hasn't great sport leagues of its own, son its most important teams had to play on the US and Canada leagues. In the case of soccer, the Mosman Warriors and the Mosman Waves plays on the MLS (Mayor League Soccer) against Canada and USA teams, as in hockey, in the case of the Wizards of Mosman and the Mosman Whites, the play their matches on the NHL. The Mosman Walls, baseball team, plays on the National League (the never have been on the American League), the Mosman Wings are currently on the D-League of the NBA (they have played two seasons on the NBA), and the Mosman Whales plays on the NFL.

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The New Sewart Field is the Mosman Warriors stadium. It was inaugurated on September of 2008 and its the most modern stadium of the city, and the one with the best facilities. It has a capacity for 61.000 spectators. Its located on the south border of the Bicentennial Park and it has splendid views of the park thanks to a large viewpoint on the north stand. Its equipped with high comfort locker rooms, bar, restaurant, gymnasium, club museum, press hall, infirmary, club stores and conference halls, everything to make the stadium one of the bests equipped in the world.

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The Stadium Arcadium its located on the south boarder of the Sim Metro Life Boulevard. It is home for the Mosman Waves. It has a capacity of 110.000 spectators, stores, cafeteria, clinic and various services and its considered as an "5 Star Stadium", able to host events like great finals of elite championships.

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The Mosman City Bank Arena is located on the metropolis heart, near to Procton Point and on the side of the Moodyville Treatment Square, is the court of the Wizards of Fosman, with a capacity of 18.200 spectators (although it can be expended to 20.000 dismantling the main ice ring). It has two ice rings, although only one of them is used for matches because the other, a smallest one, is only used for trainings. Thanks to its central situation, the MCB Arena hosts boxing fights, concerts or any other event with a lot of people.

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The Icespear Arena is located on the junction of the L4 and L5 of the Mosman Metro, on the southeast of Ryde. It is the Mosman Whites court, a humble hockey team becoming from the working classes. With a capacity of 15.630 spectators, is the smallest of all the mosmite stadiums, but despite that, it is an important architectonic example of those kind of buildings.

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The Safeco Field is located on Parramatta, near the border with Ryde. This mastodontic stadium, with a capacity of 47.155 spectators, is home of the Mosman Walls. This stadiums has a retractable roof to cover the field the rainy days. It counts with many food stalls, which allows to the spectators to buy food from their places on the stand and someone would carry their food to their seat. There are also team stores, press halls, big locker rooms and a club museum.

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The "Nº101" of the SMLB, most known as the Sim Metro Life Arena. It is the court of the Mosman Wings, the city's basketball team. With a capacity of 17.239 spectators during the game days, is also a complex dedicated to concerts and spectacles thanks to the versatility of the building which allows a fast change on the ring and stands configuration.

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The January 19th Memorial Stadium is located on the Parramatta Bay shore, in Shatam, near the Jasper Bridge. This stadium, home of the NFL Mosman Whales, has a capacity for 65.535 spectators. On its origins it was called Pendergast Coliseum but the name was changed on memory of the victims of the earthquake that shaked Pasadena (Neware) the january 19 of 1984.
Title: Re: New Bordeaux
Post by: Battlecat on October 29, 2009, 09:27:49 AM
Great series of shots!  That's an amazing set of sports facilities and you've done a great job integrating them into the surrounding area!
Title: Re: New Bordeaux
Post by: djvandrake on October 29, 2009, 10:03:52 AM
Wow!  What a wonderful update.  The collection of facilities you have is most impressive and a very nice addition to your city.  &apls
Title: Re: New Bordeaux
Post by: Earth quake on October 29, 2009, 01:24:45 PM
Amazing Update.
I see that your city had a lot numerous installation of sport.
Title: Re: New Bordeaux
Post by: Engorn on November 10, 2009, 01:37:17 AM
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The Mount Hammer nuclear plant was a project of the Canadian government to provide New Bordeaux and Vancouver with power. Its location near the border between Canada and New Bordeaux (in fact, due its proximity with Mosman), unleashed a social denial by the neobordeauxians. Two weeks ago, after three years of works and being the plant ended, the government of Canada decided to stop the project.

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I know that it hasn't anything with the power plant, but the border its on the nearsides of the plant and there is nothing else to show with it, so i put it here too.
Title: Re: New Bordeaux
Post by: Glowbal on November 10, 2009, 03:42:33 AM
Looking great! That must be the best powerplant i've ever seen.
Title: Re: New Bordeaux
Post by: rooker1 on November 10, 2009, 04:50:36 AM
Engorn,
Fantastic pictures.  I really like the Power plant, it looks very realistic and believable.  The only suggestion I have would be to use Fukuda's High Tension poles (http://www.simtropolis.com/stex/details.cfm?id=16152).
Great stuff, it's always a pleasure to come visit your MD!

Robin  :thumbsup:
Title: Re: New Bordeaux
Post by: Battlecat on November 10, 2009, 08:34:45 AM
Looks great!  Love that powerplant, it's very realistic!
Title: Re: New Bordeaux
Post by: djvandrake on November 10, 2009, 10:26:52 AM
Awesome looking power plant.  :thumbsup:  Great update.
Title: Re: New Bordeaux
Post by: Earth quake on November 10, 2009, 11:14:57 AM
Wonderfull nuke power plant. &apls
And excellent update.
Title: Re: New Bordeaux
Post by: Nardo69 on November 10, 2009, 11:25:40 AM
Now that's what you can call a power pant. And like lots of them IRL close to the border ...  %wrd

Nice border, too. But I don't miss the border controls within the Schengen Countries in Europe!

Take care my friend!


Bernhard  :thumbsup:
Title: Re: New Bordeaux
Post by: kelis on November 10, 2009, 11:33:10 AM
Increible Mosman como siempre.
Title: Re: New Bordeaux
Post by: Tomas Neto on November 10, 2009, 11:45:43 AM
Fantastic!!!  &apls
Title: Re: New Bordeaux
Post by: Engorn on November 10, 2009, 12:46:54 PM
Quote from: Nardo69 on November 10, 2009, 11:25:40 AMAnd like lots of them IRL close to the border ...  %wrd
What is a IRL?

Quote from: Nardo69 on November 10, 2009, 11:25:40 AMNice border, too. But I don't miss the border controls within the Schengen Countries in Europe!
Well, in fact the border is a merely formality. Due the agreement between the Neobordeauxian and Canadia governments, all vehicles can flow free over the border. There are only some controls when the police is pursuiting someone or things like that, but never for customs.
Title: Re: New Bordeaux
Post by: Nardo69 on November 10, 2009, 02:00:32 PM
IRL = In Real Life  ;)
Title: Re: New Bordeaux
Post by: Engorn on November 10, 2009, 02:22:03 PM
OK, now the sentence has some sense... ;)
Title: Re: New Bordeaux
Post by: NASCAR_Guy on November 12, 2009, 12:07:32 PM
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Where can I get this?

%confuso
Title: Re: New Bordeaux
Post by: Engorn on November 12, 2009, 02:26:46 PM
Nowhere. It's an unfinished BAT, actually photoshoped from a render image. Sorry.
Title: Re: New Bordeaux
Post by: Earth quake on November 13, 2009, 11:39:33 AM
It's the creator of the the Toyota center ?
Title: Re: New Bordeaux
Post by: Engorn on November 13, 2009, 12:44:20 PM
Maybe. I don't remember...
Title: Re: New Bordeaux
Post by: calibanX on November 17, 2009, 05:43:56 PM
Wow! This is great. I love the Simylimpics. The crowds are fantastic. You have a very creative style. I'm looking forward to seeing more.

Geoff
Title: Re: New Bordeaux
Post by: Engorn on November 19, 2009, 02:44:19 AM
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Nowadays the Pendergast surname, even it's not the most extended, is with Leclercq and Azkoaga, one of the best knowns and renowned of New Bordeaux. The Pendergast family (de Prendregast in the old days) has been always very linked with the history of the region since its foundation. It was Antoine de Prendregast with Paul Leclercq who founded the region, in fact is well known that Prendregast chose the location for the new settlement. Since the 18th century the Pendergast family has taken part in the history of New Bordeaux in many ways, most of them taking part in politics and in many cases being part of the newbordeauxian high society, "starring" some of the most known and tricky happenings occurred on New Bordeaux.
The first great familiar scandal was when Maurice Pendergast engaged his own first cousin Daphne, who was unfaithful to him. When Maurice discovered that his wife had a lover, he killer her and then their his own son. After that he took his life. It is said that the lover could be his brother, Antoine Enoch Louis Pendergast, whoh disappeared on those days and that he could be murdered by Maurice too. But the corpse was never find and there are some theories about the disappearance of Antoine, the most extended and probable is that he disappeared by his own will. Short time before his disappearance a medic doctor appeared in Mosman, and who became very prestigious. His names was Enoch Leng, being Leng the maiden name of Antoine Enoch Louis Pendergast. Anyway, Enoch Leng, as Antoine did, disappeared some years after leaving no tracks and there are not new identities associated with him.
Murderers on the family didn't take long time to get back. It was on the next generation when Cornelia Pendergast, which has a mental illness, poisoned his brother Ambergris and then she poisoned herself. Unfortunately the poison was of slow effect, so it didn't make effect until some hours later. At the moment when Ambergris's heart stopped he was driving the family car with his wife Leonor and his two sons, Simon and Bernoulli. The car had a terrible accident, consequence of that his wife and sons die.
Recently has been discovered that Arquimedes R. Pendregast killed his wife too, Afra L.E. Delamere. Arquimedes, after five daughters, frustrated because his wife haven't gave him a son, threw her from the top of the stairs, killing her. After that, as his daughters reached the age, he send them to diverse convents, and consequence of that his acts are known today, because Amelia, the older of his daughters, wrote all that in a recently found diary.
By the other hand the family is very respected in neobordeauxian society due the great leaders and defenders of the region that it has given. Some of theme are, instead Antoine de Prendregast, Ishmael Pendregast, Hezekiah Pendergast, Arsenius A. Pendergast or Cornelius Pendergast, all of the became General Minister of New Bordeaux. The current General Minister, Daniel Azkoaga is son of Lilyane F. Pendregast, so in some way its part of the lineage too.
Internationally the family is also known, because Eloise S.M. Pendergast is now married with Luis de Savonia, crown prince of Pionesa.


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This Central European style castle was built by Gaspard de Prendregast, son of Antoine de Prendregast, con-founder of New Bordeaux, at the beginnings of the 17th Century (between the 1809 and 1818) to be the residence of the Prendregast family. In it can be appreciated the grandiosity and tendency to the ostentatiousity of the Prendregast family.
The castle is located near the River Oak, close to his junction with the River Elm. It has great lands, mostly occupied by a elm forest. Inside the enclosure limited by a small wall we can find instead the castle, the old farm fields and the familiar graveyard, but rumors says that the true remains of the deceases are in a secret underground chamber, but it has never been found.
On 1967, Linnaeus Pendergast, direct heir of Gaspard, after the decline of the family (in the sense of the number of members), considering that such a castle like this was too big for a four member family (he, his wife Isabella and his two sons, Aloysius and Diogenes, because Eloise didn't born yet), decided to sell the castle to the Regional Government of New Bordeaux, with the condition of not being used for tourism.
In this way "Pendreborg" became "River Oak Asylum". It is a lunatic asylum for rich people. To it came persons with mental disorders, most of the mild, of the most wealthy families of New Bordeaux, Canadá and some northeastern states of the USA. Usually the "guests" receive the same treat as if they were on a spa or seaside resort.
On 2007, when Linnaeus deceased, his older son Aloysius granted to the government the right to use the castle as a touristic attraction. Nowadays the visits to the castle are allowed, but they are very reduced due the asylum has priority, while the access to the castle lands is free.

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This small water mill was used to grind the wheat that was cultivated on the castle fields. Today its not used as a mill, but it is a small free museum where the visitors can see how the wheat was ground to make flour.

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This old bridge, known as Backgate Bridge, crosses the River Elm before its junction with the River Oak. Its considerated the back gate to the castle and it is because of that that is known with that name.

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This is the familiar graveyard, named before, and where is supposed that most of the Pendergast family members are buried. Anyway there are not only Pendergast family members, but some family friends or other well known persons that the Pendergast family members allowed to rest there for the eternity.

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Title: Re: New Bordeaux
Post by: BarbarossaS on November 19, 2009, 04:00:57 AM
Beautiful update, I love the rural setting!

-Stijn-
Title: Re: New Bordeaux
Post by: Earth quake on November 19, 2009, 11:08:01 AM
Splendid update.
The surroundings of the castle is beautiful.
Title: Re: New Bordeaux
Post by: djvandrake on November 19, 2009, 06:28:37 PM
Excellent update.  I love the orchards.  :thumbsup:
Title: Re: New Bordeaux
Post by: Tomas Neto on November 20, 2009, 05:43:38 AM
Awesome update!!!  &apls
Title: Re: New Bordeaux
Post by: calibanX on November 24, 2009, 11:54:04 PM
Just beautiful. Nice job with the castle.

Geoff
Title: Re: New Bordeaux
Post by: Battlecat on November 25, 2009, 11:38:24 AM
Great update!  Love the castle and the way you've detailed the farmland around it!
Title: Re: New Bordeaux
Post by: kwakelaar on November 25, 2009, 11:58:39 AM
Nice update and quite a remarkable family the Pendergast's, lots of tragedies as well as greatness. The family home is indeed over de top, but it is certainly a statement.
Love the stone bridge over the river, do you mind telling me where you got it?
Title: Re: New Bordeaux
Post by: scott1964 on November 25, 2009, 02:58:11 PM
 :o :o :o :o Is the castle available? Wow looks great in and around the castle.  $%Grinno$% :P
Title: Re: New Bordeaux
Post by: Engorn on November 25, 2009, 03:29:35 PM
Thanks everyone for the coments. :)

Now, some replies to this last update and to some previous...

Kwakelaar, yo can find the bridge on Toutsimicities if I'm not wrong. It is something I downloaded some time ago, so I'm not sure if it was there from where I downloaded it.
scott1964, yes, the castle is available on Simtropolis and I think that here on SC4Devotion too.
Rooker1, thanks for your suggestion. I already downloaded them, so maybe I will replace those posts. ;)
Battlecat, I downloaded the cruiser terminal from a Japanese website, don't remeber which one. Sorry, but I make myself a big mess with all the Japanese sites. At least you know something... :P
Title: Re: New Bordeaux
Post by: Engorn on December 06, 2009, 02:21:45 PM
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I'ts Christmas in Mosman already!

Like every year those days of brotherhood and of meeting with family and beloved persons arrived. From now Mosman will be during those Christmas holidays a buzzing place of lights, carols and street santas. As every year, Christmas has arrive with the switch on of the thousands of lights that decorates buildings and the city streets, as with the classic Christmas Choir Contest, made on Moodyville Square, in front of the Christmas Tree.

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Also, as the years before, the Bicentennial Park has been decorated to welcome Christmas. The lights show all along the park its already a Christmas classic in Mosman, which makes the park as a magic place during the first hours of the night, when it is still opened to the public and the lights are on. Those days the lighting is more especial due the snowfall of the last week that covered all the park with snow, making the park a truly place of fantasy.

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Title: Re: New Bordeaux
Post by: Battlecat on December 07, 2009, 08:57:25 AM
Good point about those Japanese sites.  I've downloaded a fair bit from them, I'll keep an eye out for that terminal!  Thanks!

Those Christmas shots are amazing!  The second mosaic with the lights strung through the park is particularly impressive! 
Title: Re: New Bordeaux
Post by: kbieniu7 on December 07, 2009, 11:16:01 AM
Yes, the mosaic with park is awesome! Excellent atmosphere, sometime like real photo. Great work  &apls
Title: Re: New Bordeaux
Post by: Connor on December 07, 2009, 11:29:24 AM
I haven't looked at this MD for quite a while, so i just had a look through most of it and am very impressed. The simlympic stuff looks great, the park was great and that airport was one of the best i've seen in my opinion. Superb work, keep it up.  &apls

Title: Re: New Bordeaux
Post by: kwakelaar on December 07, 2009, 11:42:10 AM
A real Christmasy update, and one that has been very well done.
The park has a great looking lighting scheme, love what you have done with the different buildings in the park as well as the paths with coloured lights strung along them.
Thanks for your tips about Toutsimcity, I did find the bridge.
Title: Re: New Bordeaux
Post by: Tomas Neto on December 07, 2009, 02:13:06 PM
Wow, the Christmas atmosphere is fantastic in your city!!!  &apls
Welcome to the Best Sellers!!!  :thumbsup:
Title: Re: New Bordeaux
Post by: calibanX on December 07, 2009, 06:25:21 PM
I love the Christmas lights. I looked closely at all of those pics.That's a great update.

Geoff
Title: Re: New Bordeaux
Post by: rooker1 on December 08, 2009, 05:00:54 AM
 Great Christamas idea. 
I like how your city looks, but it looks like it is missing some life.  I think you need more people in the plaza...the first pic especially.

It also gives me great pleasure to move your MD to the next level....."BEST SELLERS"!

Robin  &apls
Title: Re: New Bordeaux
Post by: Engorn on December 10, 2009, 10:38:34 AM
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Well, finally I've finished the Metro Mosman map. Actually is not finished, only the lines and station names are. It's still missing the "Key to lines" and some additional data on the leaflet, but as that has been a work of a lot of months, I want to show it now. Maybe I will make an update with more information about the Metro Mosman. Please, take a look to it on full size (http://img46.imageshack.us/img46/9665/planoesquematicocopia2w.png).

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L1-Metropolitan, L2-Industrial, L3-Rushcutters, L4-Prendregast, L5-Northern, L6-Eastern, L7-Shatam Circular, L8-Grand Circular, L9-Baycoast, L10-Outter, L11-Vertical, L12-Oak Lake
Title: Re: New Bordeaux
Post by: Tomas Neto on December 10, 2009, 01:35:31 PM
Awesome map!!!  &apls
Title: Re: New Bordeaux
Post by: calibanX on December 10, 2009, 08:54:18 PM
This is a beautiful map Engorn. In addition to the map I absolutely love the Metro logo and the City Hall logo in the lower right corner. They are very well designed. Awesome bit of work!

Geoff
Title: Re: New Bordeaux
Post by: harris14 on December 12, 2009, 10:12:30 PM
where did you get that airport terminal its fantastic :D
Title: Re: New Bordeaux
Post by: Engorn on December 13, 2009, 01:36:57 AM
Which terminal do you mean exactly? Because there are a few... &mmm
Title: Re: New Bordeaux
Post by: harris14 on December 13, 2009, 01:58:23 PM
the one on page five that says marry christmas :-[
Title: Re: New Bordeaux
Post by: Engorn on December 13, 2009, 03:04:51 PM
Ah! Well, sorry, don't remember where I get. A Japanese site, but don't remember which one. You know, the seem all the same to me. :P
Title: Re: New Bordeaux
Post by: wallasey on December 25, 2009, 11:12:54 AM
Excellent MD, the in game pics and your map work are top notch!
Title: Re: New Bordeaux
Post by: mightygoose on December 31, 2009, 04:58:53 AM
your work is stunning, congratulations on some beautiful pictures

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one thing what program did you use to create this wonderful family tree
Title: Re: New Bordeaux
Post by: Engorn on December 31, 2009, 07:19:35 AM
 &Thk/( I think it was entirely done with Adobe Photoshop... Can't remember, I did it on June and it did not took a long work time. In fact, I have the full family tree on a .psd file, and looking to the layers of the file, it seems that everything was done with Photoshop.
Title: Re: New Bordeaux
Post by: Engorn on January 26, 2010, 09:01:37 AM
Well, I said that maybe I'll do an update with more information about the Metro Mosman and now I do. Sorry if there are things that are difficult to understand (or impossible), you know, English is not may first language.

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The Metro Mosman (official name in English and French) is the electric railway network of the public transport that works both above and below ground in the area of Mosman. Its service started running on June 16th of 1881.
The mosmites often refer to it as The Metro or some more familiar as The MM or The Worm since it travels underground as well as the worms.
Today day there are between 301 and 373 stations (depending on how are counted the transshipment points: the official figure that handles SARETU™ is 301, not counting the 103 possible transfers as station but as stop) and more than 520 km of active lines, with more than one and a half million passengers using the metro every day (549 million made transport in the 2008–2009 period).
From 2005 , metro is part of the SARETU™ Corporation that also manages the bus , tram, taxis and Mosman commuter train. It was previously managed by the Mosman Metro Authority.


History:

Beginnings:

The Metro Mosman network began to forge in the second half of XIX century, in 1873. The main idea was to join the working class district of Sam's Garden in Shatam with industrial Mile, to make more easy to go to work to the workers, and incidentally also connect the city center. The first section of the line Metropolitan (L1) opened on June 16th of 1881 and performed a journey between Sam's Garden (currently abandoned station) and industrial Mile (today Rushcutters Convention Center I). This first line was managed by the Mosman Transport Authority (MTA®), which despite its name it was a private company belonging to the Leclercq family.
The First extension of the network came two years later when the existing line was dragged from Industrial Mile to Industrial Mile East. At then the MTA® had already begun to devise a second path that over time will become the line Industrial (L2). Its original route, which remains "unchanged" from its opening in 1888, was from Triangle Park in Ryde up to Procton Point. Originally trains only ranged from Triangle Park up to Parramatta Bay where those who wanted to cross the bay had to catch a shuttle, which went out every half hour, then back to take the metro in Darling Harbor, station currently abandoned. That way the labor residing in Ryde could travel to Industrial Mile with certain easily, although not as much as those who lived in Shatam. At then the low frequency of trains allowed both the Metropolitan Line as the Industrial Line to use the section between Procton Point and industrial Mile East in a shared way.

Prendregast Line:

Almost parallel to the development of the Industrial Line, the Prendregast family began to build under the Shatam Railroad United (SRU®) company, a new metro line, much more ambitious than those built by the MTA®. This line run out of West Station and originally arrived to Triangle Park where connected to the MTA® Industrial Line. The main feat of this route, constructed between 1883 and 1894, was crossing the Bay of Parramatta underwater, but with the resources available at that time was a challenge of engineering. Prendregast line worked at the hands of the SRU® from 1894 to 1901, year in which was acquired by the MTA®.
Although its construction began almost at the same time as the Industrial Line of MTA®, the Prendregast line took eleven years to complete due to his length and difficulty crossing the Bay of Parramatta. When it was inaugurated, the MTA® was about to put on work its third line and the Metropolitan Line had been extended to Sewart, thus beginning to upload northward. Initially the L3 or Rushcutters would be a circular line, encircling Procton Point, the heart of Mosman, linking several times the L1 and L2, which would be completed in several stages. However after opening of the first phase in 1899, the MTA® changed his mind and the L3 run the South of Rushcutters. Two years later the MTA® would buy the Prendregast line to the SRU®, becoming to be the Mosman metro L4.


Entry into the 20th century:

During the first decade of the 20th century and the first half of the second decade the metro barely grew. Rushcutters line reached Golden Apple, thus linking with the Prendregast line, crossing for the second time a submarine section and the Metropolitan Line (in its joint with the Industrial Line section) was extended until reaching the Cathedral of Saint Thomas. In addition, during this period the idea of separating Industrial and Metropolitan lines in its shared section from Procton Point began to forge, although this would not run until a time later.
During its first decade of existence the Prendregast line became extremely popular since the industrial line had the problem that had that catch the shuttle, which was not free to users of the metro and many workers preferred to take more time and pay less money, so in 1921 the MTA® decided to build a new line, almost parallel to the Prendregast Line. In fact the new underwater tunnels of the new line were excavated at few meters from the already existing in the L4, advantaging them as access to works. The first stretch of the line ran from Golden Apple up to Triangle Park, sharing with the L4 the last sections. The line was opened in May 1929, few months before the beginning of the Great Depression. Being a line to carry most part working class worked in industrial Mile, because of the crack Northern Line (L5) never reached his goal, but the few months that had between its inauguration and the collapse of the economy it gave good results.

Consequences of Depression:

After the great depression subway take long to have new lines. The incorporation of Essen as fifth Mosman district in 1938 made that both the L2 and L3 get extended to the new eastern district, although only the L2 would venture into a principle in the Essen Peninsula, reaching up to Bayhead in 1958, while the L3 would under Wall Lane in 1954. In addition to the extension of these two lines, L1 and L5 lasted until connect in Westland Grand Avenue in 1959. Actually the L1 suffered a slight change in its original path to link it with the L3 Twilight Station and thus step better connect the new station rail with the city center. This led to the closure of four stations of the original path including the referred Sam's Garden, which today it can be visited since 1991. In addition, in 1956 the L1 began extending northward with the intention of reach the Paul Leclercq International Airport, as did the L5, which starting at Triangle Park began to climb North to then deviate east. However both lines would not arrive to the airport until 1971.
The L4 was modified too. From the recently inaugurated station of the Icespear Arena, place where originally converged Prendregast Line and the Northern Line, the Prendregast broke away from its original path to be extended eastward. In addition, this line should be from a known point a high rail line due to the geology that the rail line should traverse, factor that also affect the prolongation of the L2 to the north, which in 1949 first crossed the bay thanks to the excavated underwater tunnel, and thanks to it the travelers will no have to take the shuttle anymore. Thus the Industrial Line became the third line crossing the bay.
However the projection of new metro lines didn't come until 1966, with the Balmain adhesion to the newbordeauxian capital as the sixth district. So in 1968 the Eastern Line (L6) began to be dug, which would arrive to Soft Rocks South in 1977.

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Sam's Garden y Albertown stations respectively, abandoned nowadays.

The great boom:

In 1970 the MTA® would became a private company, managed by the Mosman City Hall, thus becoming a public company, which would be a great boost for the mosmite subway as now it would receive many more public aid that they had received until then.
Only one year after of the purchase, the MTA® announced the construction of four new lines, two of which would be circular. All works began in 1973, each in a different year period being the first in be completed the Shatam Circular (L7) in 1980. The line was planned next to the idea of the Mosman Council to create the Golden Apple Business Area, downtown which theoretically will attract to its around many homes, which need an efficient public transportation network. The following of the four lines to be opened was Grand Circular (L8), which was not completed (and wasn't it until 1999) at the time of its inauguration in 1982. Then the section functioning went from Humerton to Quantum. After, the line Baycoast (L9) ranged from Golden Apple to Oak Lake in his first voyage, in February 1983, becoming the fourth line crossing the Bay of Parramatta. The fourth  of the new lines, Outter (L10) it was also opened in 1983, only that in October. The line has remained without expanded since its opening, but they are currently planning new extensions.
In addition with these four new lines was introduced in the Metro Mosman network a new model station, more accessible and "modern".

New lines:

The L11 Metro Mosman began in 1988 after being very clear the difficulty to reach the southern from northeast of Mosman or southeast, which decided to build a line that cross the city on a vertical way [hence named Vertical (L11)], which would be inaugurated on November 11th of 1995. The Vertical Line would be the first Metro Mosman line out of the municipality of the city (and the only on until this time), to reach Medicine Creek to the north.
In March of 1997 began the construction of the Oak Lake Line (L12), which runs around the Lake. The line was opened on April 13th of 2002 between Fairmont and Warwick Avenue to go extending up to Wolf River on July 4th of 2009. Currently the line is extending and is provided that in 2015 will reach the southwest of Essen.
In addition in recent decades other existing lines have been expanded. The L1 lasted between Westland Grand Avenue and Sim Metro Life Boulevard. The L2 and the L3 were expanded to reach the airport in Essen, in addition to the L2 that was extended in the north into Ruistlip. The L4 has followed growing to the east and the L8 was completed.

The refurbishment of Procton Point:

At the middle of the 1980s the MTA® began to consider the need of a completely remodeling of Procton Point, station platforms, including connections between lines and access to the station. Over the years the station had been expanding, actually accesses were virtually those that existed when opened L1, and taking into account that Procton Point was already at that time and for decades the most frequented station of the entire network, the entire complex had become obsolete.
The works began in January 1989 and led a total period of five years and medium. However, the "new" station was opened on August 8th of 1994. The station now has modern benefits that are renewed periodically to provide the highest possible efficiency to the station, as well as spacious interior to connect different lines, corridors or the grandiose marquee access to Post Square, as well as other two more discrete entries, but spacious, in Centennial Park and in Prendregast Avenue.

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Inside and outside of Procton Point.

SARETU™:

In 2005 MTA® became part of SARETU™, a corporation that includes bus , tram, taxi, train commuter, etc. From then all mosmite public transport is managed by a single entity. As a result the mosmites enjoy many advantages at the time of moved from one place to another since some types of ticket can use them both bus, metro, tram or vicinity.

Future:

Several network upgrades are underway, although none of them involves new lines. In 2010 will be inaugurated two new sections of the network, one on the line Metropolitan between SMLB and Cruisses Terminal, which will have two new stations and whose opening is scheduled for late February, and a branch of the industrial, line overlooking a nomination to the Summer Olympic Games, which will include a new station.
Also the L2 is being extended by the northwest, though no dates lay down for the moment, but refers to a possible opening of five new stations for 2012.
Others two possible extensions of the network are still on paper, the L4 and the L10 in the east.

Infrastructure:

Stations and lines:

The table below describes each of the Metro Mosman lines using the color used to represent them on the maps. Also it gives information about the date of opening of the first section of each line and the type of tunnel where wagons circulate (subsurface makes reference to an average depth of 5 meters; deep extends this definition to 20 meters, although this distance varies considerably). The stations data refers first to the number of unique stations the line and then the brackets refers the number of stations that are where you can make a change that has the same line. The number of stops made reference to the sum of unique stations and shared stations that has a line representing the number of times that a train stops on a route.

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Map:

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L1-Metropolitan, L2-Industrial, L3-Rushcutters, L4-Prendregast, L5-Northern, L6-Eastern, L7-Shatam Circular, L8-Grand Circular, L9-Baycoast, L10-Outter, L11-Vertical, L12-Oak Lake


Rolling stock and electrification:

The Metro Mosman currently use rolling stock built between 1960 and 2007. The predominant tonic is the oldest lines using the material oldest so far, while most modern lines have the newer units. Only the L1 and L2 are the exceptions to this "rule", they operate the 500 series and series 550 units respectively. The L3 operates with the 250 series drives, the oldest series on the network. For its part the L4 and L5 used the 300 series. The 350 series is present in lines L6, L7 and L9, although in the latter it also operates the 500 series. The L8 operate the 400 series, the 450 series and the 550 series. The L10 and L11 are both operated by units of the 500 series and a few of the 450 series, while the L12 is fully operated by the Series 550. It's planned that the 600 series will be introduced in the L1 and L2 after their upcoming expansions in the first half of 2010. The 550 series is the first series of the Mosman Metro to be totally operated by the ATO (Automatic Train Operator), son it doesn't need a person to drive them. The 600 series will be operated fully by the ATO too.
The Series 350 was the first to be painted in yellow, coinciding with the acquisition of the MTA® by the City Council of Mosman. After that all the previous units were repainted to homogenize the subway, and all subsequent units have been acquired in that color. This fact set a precedent in public transport of Mosman, since today, both metro, taxis, bus, tram or any other local public transport is color yellow.
The Metro Mosman is one of the few networks in the world that uses a four-rail system. The additional rail carries the electrical return that on third-rail and overhead networks is provided by the running rails. On the Underground a top-contact third rail is beside the track, energized at +420 V DC, and a top-contact fourth rail is centrally between the running rails, at -210 V DC, which combine to provide a traction voltage of 630 V DC.

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250 Series, the oldest series used currently.

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550 Series, the newest series used currently.

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Interior of a Mosman Metro wagon (450 Series).

Travel:

Tickets:

The Metro Mosman uses the SARETU™'s CrediTransport℠ areas to calculate rates. Metro Mosman is divided in 12 areas, being the A1 the more central, while to the D3 is the farthest from the city center.
There are staffed ticket offices. Some open for limited periods, machines and ticket vending can be used at any time. Some machines that sell a limited range of tickets only accept coins, other touch-screen machines accept coins and tickets, and often give change. These machines also accept credit and debit cards; some machines accept cards only.
The most common ticket is the CrediTrasnport℠. It is a ticket which you can purchase machines worth 5 CAD, 10 CAD and 15 CAD. These cards lose value as users travel. When the traveler pass the ticket by the machine to come into the station, on the ticket is registered the start station of the journey. When you exit from the metro network you need to pass the ticket by the machine (all tickets, are of the type that are, must pass through the machines to get out), it deducts money from ticket depending on the number of zones that the traveler is navigated.
Others common types of ticket are the occasional or round-trip, where you have to choose the station of origin and destination, the bonds of 10 or 20 travel, which usually restrict the number of zones that can be "jump", and annual tickets that allow to use the subway as many times as want during a year regardless of the number of areas. For these bills There are two rates: youth and for over 26 years.
More recently, SARETU™ has introduced the FreeHand Card℠, an intelligent card with a chip that requires no contact with the machines, so passengers can pass by the machines without taking out the cards. There are two types of FreeHand Card℠: FreeHand Card℠ Regular and FreeHand Card℠ Credit. The first is charge and works the same way that the CrediTransport℠, while the second has the same operation to the CrediTransport℠ just that the charge becomes directly to a bank account, which allows the user that have this card does not have to be loading money in it. Since January of 2010 users who purchase annual tickets are getting a FreeHand Card℠ instead of a card of cardboard as hitherto.
In addition all tickets, to except for the occasional, can be used in metro, bus, tram and commuter train. FreeHand Card℠ is cheaper to operate than the cardboard tickets and the magnetic band of the CrediTransport℠, and the metro is fostering the acquisition of FreeHand Card℠ through fares special.
For tourists and other non-residents, and not requiring travel during the period of the morning rush hour, the CrediTransport℠ of a whole day is the best option available. These are available at any metro station. Slope 5 CAD and allows unlimited travel on the network between 0930 until the end of the day. This provides an excellent value for every trip you make whereas a single trip can cost about 1 CAD. There are also CrediTransport℠ for several days.

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FreeHand Card℠

Delays:

Of agreement to statistics issued by the Metro Mosman, the traveler of the Metropolitan Line lost two days, 9 hours and 15 minutes in 2008 due to delays. Between September 15th  and October 14th of 2006, 211 train services were delayed by more than 15 minutes. Passengers have the right to receive compensation if their trip is delayed 15 minutes or more due to circumstances within the control of SARETU™.

Hours of operation:

The Metro Mosman doesn't work 24 hours a day (except at new year and large public events) since many lines have only 2-way (one in each direction) and therefore it's needed to close at night for work of maintenance. The first trains begin to operate near 4:30 am running until about 1:30 am. Unlike other systems as the New York Metro, few parts of the metro have express tracks that allow trains to go to the maintenance site.

Accessibility:

The accessibility to people with reduced mobility was not considered when the first subway lines where built and the older stations are inaccessible to disabled people. The newest stations (from 1980) were designed to have accessibility, while in the former stations have begun to implement new access ramps, lifts and all systems that provide access to disabled. Work began in July 2009 and is expected to finish in 2016, when more than 140 stations have been completely remodeled.

Collapse:

The collapse, overpopulation or saturation of the Metro Mosman has been a problem for years for the passengers paid especially during the morning peak hours and the evening rush hours. Stations that have particularly problems are Procton Point and Golden Apple, which have access restrictions at certain times. The restrictions are introduced into other stations when necessary. Several stations have been rebuilt to deal with overpopulation, as in the case of Procton Point.
Some stations are closed or are made exit-only stations due to overcrowding in peak periods. At other times trains simply do not stop at the overcrowded station and go onto the next closest station, in places where there is another station within walking distance. Overcrowding can also be limited by temporarily disallowing passengers from passing through ticket gates to the platforms at some stations.
Title: Re: New Bordeaux
Post by: WC_EEND on January 26, 2010, 09:25:41 AM
 :o If that post was about a real tube network I would've beleived it instantly. Ofcourse the pictures of RL stations show it isn't but it does come awfully close.
Title: Re: New Bordeaux
Post by: BuildingUp on January 26, 2010, 10:15:52 AM
The amount of work you put into this MD is spectacular!  &apls
Title: Re: New Bordeaux
Post by: djvandrake on January 26, 2010, 12:38:08 PM
Very impressive!  That transit map is incredible.  &apls
Title: Re: New Bordeaux
Post by: mightygoose on January 26, 2010, 02:12:08 PM
truly awesome work here, it is fascinating to read your detailed back story.
Title: Re: New Bordeaux
Post by: Engorn on February 19, 2010, 12:37:51 PM
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Title: Re: New Bordeaux
Post by: kwakelaar on February 20, 2010, 02:27:17 AM
A very detailed description of your metro network. And I will wait to see what this cliffhanger is all about.
Title: Re: New Bordeaux
Post by: art128 on February 21, 2010, 02:00:46 AM
Lovely small lake there, I really love all the details you've put there. Nice job !  :thumbsup:
Title: Re: New Bordeaux
Post by: antimonycat on February 21, 2010, 02:30:00 AM
That imposing castle with its bridge towering above the farmland is great. Your transit maps and other graphical objects must've had a lot of work put into them, they look splendid. I'll keep an eye on this MD.
Title: Re: New Bordeaux
Post by: calibanX on March 07, 2010, 07:55:43 PM
Your updates are works of art. I'm in awe every time I stop by. Great work.

Geoff
Title: Re: New Bordeaux
Post by: Engorn on March 13, 2010, 04:52:05 AM
calibanX: Your comments are appreciated. Due the great quality of your CJ, that you consider mine a great work is such a great honor. :)
Antomonycat: Yes, I've put a lot of work on the graphical objects and coming from you, who makes extraordinary art works for her MD, I consider it like a great flatter.
art128: Thanks for the comment, and now you can see more. ;)
kwakelaar: I'm glad you liked the metro network.


Well, and now, as I promised, here it is.
But before I start I want to give thanks to Kelis. Without him this update would lose all its essence. I would have been able to make it, but it would have been the saddest thing that you can find on Earth.
And a note before you starts to read. Note that it is wrote as if it was a documentary, so imagine the voice in off of the documentaries of the History Channel when you read it.

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New Bordeaux is nowadays, a cosmopolitan region, with thriving economy, serving as a world reference and above all, a multicultural region. Mosman, its capital, receives in its streets and buildings people of all imaginable races, cultures, religions and languages, and more. Diversity is one of the strengths of New Bordeaux, but has not always been the case. For centuries, only a culture inhabited these lands that bathe the Strait of Georgia. How was New Bordeaux before of us?
Eyk Gregson, ecologist and anthropologist of the Ryde-Parramatta University, believes that he has the answer. Gregson has devoted the last ten years of his career to develop the New Bordeaux Origins project, a project which aims to show the world how New Bordeaux was before the arrival of Europeans, in particular the area on which Mosman is seating.

<<I want to show the grandiosity of nature either when it works with all intact parts in a place where nobody usually think that there was any nature. Before its hills were flattened and its wetlands asphalted, Mosman was a special territory with wild enormous cedars, elms and oaks, brackish marshes, streams, and meadows where black bears, moose or beavers run freely: "one of the most pleasurable lands where one can walk on" according to Paul Leclercq, the New Bordeaux founder. Along the length of the newbordeauxian coastline abounded rocks and small beaches where the penutians got gorge of oysters and clams. More than 105 kilometers of rivers and streams flowed throughout the territory, many of which today doesn't exist, and in most of them lived one or two beavers>>.

Gregson conceived the New Bordeaux Origins project one afternoon of 1999, after buying an illustrated book with historical maps of the city. He had been hired by Ryde-Parramatta University as a professor in Ecology and had just installed in Mosman and felt curiosity about the evolution of the city.

<<Mosman's landscape is so transformed, that makes you think about what was there before. In this city sometimes you can't see, apart from people, a few plants and perhaps some dogs, no other living being. How has that come to be?>>.

A map in particular drew his attention: a precious colored engraving from 1809 or 1810 showing the hills, water currents and marshes, paths, gardens and farms ranging from Darling Harbor, something that could not be seen on any another map of the time. More than three meters long by two wide, the map was created by cartographers of the neobordeauxian militia during the conflict with the British. The map showed the topography of Mosman with unusual wealth of details because the neobordeauxian officials, probably Paul Leclercq and Antoine Prendregast, needed all that information to plan the Darling Harbor defense. For Gregson represented a unique opportunity to eliminate the skyscrapers and the asphalt of the city and see, at least in part, its original landscape.
What would happen, he wondered, if he placed a grid of the current Mosman streets on the engraving of the 19th century? Should be any match? To find out, he made weekend  expeditions to check whether the places indicated on the map still existed.
For example, the Carrion Rocks in Shatams Head, which haven't been moved nor a millimeter since the 19th century. Since the rocks can be both locate on the map of the 19th century as in the current street map of the city, Gregson could put a virtual pushpin on both maps, check the reading of the GPS location and add it to a digitized version of the old map. Once fixed a few points, the rest of the process was breeze. Knowing what was there and its exact place, all with a probability error of a block, was a piece of cake.

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But how was actually the old landscape? Thanks to the map we know the position of the streams, marshes, wetlands, etc. And with what species? We know that the peninsula of Rushcutters was populated by a magnificent forest and very few clearings, always according to the map of 1809, but the map didn't reveal the type of trees it was composed. To do this, we must again seek responses near the Carrion Rocks in the Jericho National Park.

<<The park is an excellent example of how it was the peninsula 200 or 300 years ago. It is a piece of the peninsula that remains unchanged, as the Innwood Hill Park in New York, but in Mosman. Here we can find red cedars. It is a very common species in New Bordeaux and there are still many outside Mosman, but diversity is so large in our region that if it is not for this small piece of virgin land, we could not know what exactly was in Rushcutters>>.

Therefore we know that both Shatam and Rushcutters, the two districts that make up the Rushcutters peninsula were populated by an immense Western red cedar forest. But there were only trees? What we know thanks to historical documents, and for the same map, the witnac, a tribe of the penutian nation or culture, inhabited almost the whole New Bordeaux. Its presence in the peninsula was very small and according to the map only two clans of the tribe lived in it.

<<Their position were quite close to the Carrion Rocks, sacred rocks to the witnac, so taking into account that most penutians settlements were north of the bay, in Ryde or Parramatta, a few in Epcot, and by the names of the clans, marked on the map, we believe that these two settlements could be composed of shamans and guardians of this sacred territory>>.

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<<The clan of the sasketchs, meaning in the penutian language "talk with the rocks", was established at the edge of a stream, just in the place where now sits Sim Metro Life Arena, which is very clear evidence of how the landscape has changed. Here was a river, with its small pond, and now everything is asphalt and a basketball court. Surely the saskectchs never arrived to imagine that the river that gave them drinking would disappear in less than two hundred years. They certainly were the spiritual clan to venerate the spirits of the sacred land that was a little more to the West>>. [/align]

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<<To a little distance of the clan of the sasketchs, a little to the East, approximately 100 meters, we find the settlement of the Te Teten clan. We don't know safely, but surely this clan was responsible for protecting the sacred lands of the invaders, or simply constituted the secular part of the group between sasketchs and te tetens. Here, where was the settlement of the te tetens, there is today a skyscraper and no trace of the river, a different one from the sasketchs river. There are no more rivers on the peninsula nowadays>>.

And how was the rest of Mosman? We know that the peninsula of Rushcutters was completely covered by a forest of cedars and only had a few inhabitants. But we still have Epcot, Essen, Balmain, Ryde and Parramatta. However, Balmain and Epcot have not changed much. Today much of its forests remain mildly virgin, and according to historical data, Essen featured look very similar. In addition, except a few settlements in Epcot, the rest was desert.

<<Well, I guess that Parramatta makes the difference. This area already was called Parramatta by the witnac before the arrival of Europeans. In penutian language means "land of low hills". The largest concentration of penutians, all of them of the witnac tribe, ware here, at Parramatta>>.

We know, by neobordeauxian historical texts, that the First Nations lived north of the Parramatta Bay and in 1798 settlers reached a formal agreement of coexistence with indigenous peoples, but that less than ten years after they had abandoned lands inhabited during generations.

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<<The main clan, or the largest one, was the Otematta, which comes to mean something as "Brothers of the hills". These were settled just where now Prendreborg is, the castle of the Pendergast. In fact, only Prendregast took little years to begin to build the castle after the exodus of the otemmata > >.

The clan of the otematta was the largest of about twenty clans who inhabited the lands of New Bordeaux. The witnac were a tribe disseminated throughout the neobordeauxian map, but almost we could say that the populous otematta was the capital of the tribe since it is believed that here met usually all members of the tribe if they were summoned.

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<<The village consisted of three towns, like the districts of a city. In the core resided the heads of the witnac tribe, as well as shamans and possibly the most skilled craftsmen of the clan. This place was certainly the meeting point for all the witnacs either for annual rituals, ceremonies as they could be weddings or funerals and much more. In addition, we believe that it served as the administrative center. Here taught justice, gave orders to the other clans, as a modern City Hall>>.

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<<The second core is lying south of the main one. This would be just the place of residence of the majority of the members of the clan and also here should breed workshop minor artisans. Was also the core of the river, which had access to River Oak, which meant that it was the entrance to the village, because surely all members of the tribe belonging to other clans went surfing River Oak, since most of the other towns were on the shores of this river>>.

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<<The last core of village of the otematta, its believed that it was inhabited by the younger adults of the clan. Usually, although children were part of the clan or tribe, was when reaching adulthood when they became full members. Surely young people were moved to this part of the village, somewhat isolated from the others, and were forced to fend for themselves, without any adult help>>.

Apart from the clan Otematta, just the piece of land which comprises between the confluence of the Elm and Oak to Oak Lake, which was then a bog, housed three more clans, apart from other two clans that were placed on the opposite shores of the rivers Oak and Elm clans. One of these clans, Mashiik, was located just ten minutes walk from the village of the otematta. To get there from the capital of the witnac, they built a bridge of wood on the Elm River which was later replaced by the Backgate Bridge.

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<<Surprising is that the witnac built something like this. If not becomes by historical documents that mention the presence of a wooden bridge prior to settlers just where it is now the stone bridge serving as back door for Prendreborg, we would have never guessed that here there was a bridge of wood, because surely would not be preserved. However, the presence of this bridge and no evidence of more bridges built by the witnac, makes us think that the mashiik should be an important clan for the tribe. Fortunately here is now the Belmore cemetery. About six years ago by 2003 or 2004, a small expansion of the cemetery was made to add new graves, and in the digging the found the remains of three totems>>.

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<< One totem is normal, but three totems is already something unusual. We believe that the mashiik had a heavy spiritual importance in the witnac society. A road with a bridge right from the civic center of the tribe, so many totemic figures, are yet not conclusive evidences to indicate that this town was the witnac Vatican, but they are enough to venture to theorize that it was something like that.

But returning to the wild aspect of the territory, how was Parramatta? Also was covered with cedars and rivers as well as the peninsula? Studies indicate there were rivers, but that diversity was greater in Parramatta and the cedars hardly existed here. Since the banks of the River Oak and Elm River are almost intact, we know (and understand why they are name like that) which trees were in the area.

<<Basically elms, oaks, willows... Smaller than the Rushcutters trees, but with a much larger foliage trees. However it would not be the king of the landscape of Parramatta. Unlike the peninsula, here would be green pastures apart from forest, and would then be the mire>>.

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<<Where today we have Oak Lake, before there was a mire. Oak Lake was created by the construction of small dams in River Oak and Elm River. However at the time this was a very humid zone, and remains it. The two rivers approached much one to the other and the ground was quite depressed by what part of the river water was going to end there. Stagnated and eventually get dirty. It is a daunting of horror film scene>>.

Ultimately, New Bordeaux is a place where time ago there was a fabulous ecology and culture which, despite its technological backwardness, built bridges. Until today, very few have seen how New Bordeaux was prior to us. Now all we know.
Title: Re: New Bordeaux
Post by: calibanX on March 13, 2010, 09:30:30 PM
Wow, you've created an amazingly detailed history of the clans that inhabited the New Bordeaux region prior to the modern civilization it has become. I love the details in those camps, like the fires and the totems. The huts rock too, did you make them?

Geoff
Title: Re: New Bordeaux
Post by: djvandrake on March 14, 2010, 07:27:29 PM
A fascinating update!  Very well done.  &apls
Title: Re: New Bordeaux
Post by: Battlecat on March 15, 2010, 10:03:18 AM
What an amazingly detailed history!  All the shots look fantastic!
Title: Re: New Bordeaux
Post by: burgemeestertijn on March 15, 2010, 11:21:13 AM
Normally I don't look at CJ's. I'm so tired of those 'standard' cj's. But this one is absolutely fantastic. It has been a long time since I saw such a beautifull region. Where do you find the time! Two thumbs up!  &apls
Title: Re: New Bordeaux
Post by: nedalezz on March 15, 2010, 11:42:59 AM
My oh my what a great update! It was very interesting reading the history, and you wrote the story so well.

The pictures are a work of art, very unique and very well done. It really looks like 500 years ago, before being touched by the "civilized" world.

Great update!
Title: Re: New Bordeaux
Post by: kimcar on March 15, 2010, 11:55:11 AM
Quote from: burgemeestertijn on March 15, 2010, 11:21:13 AM
Normally I don't look at CJ's. I'm so tired of those 'standard' cj's. But this one is absolutely fantastic. It has been a long time since I saw such a beautifull region. Where do you find the time! Two thumbs up!  &apls

I agree with him or her (sorry) But i feel so stupid to not check your`s before . Very well done . Great christmas scenery for name just one of your great update. I Like the last one very much too &apls &apls &apls. You did the village yourself? and christmas lights is it photoshopping. Sorry i don`t see if you said it? Looking forward for sure  :thumbsup:
Title: Re: New Bordeaux
Post by: RickD on March 17, 2010, 06:26:46 AM
Wow, this is such a cool idea. And it is in HD  :P
I am impressed how much thought and effort you put in your MD.
Title: Re: New Bordeaux
Post by: kelis on March 18, 2010, 06:21:59 AM
thanks engorn, I like how you used the bat's  &apls &apls
Title: Re: New Bordeaux
Post by: penguin007 on March 18, 2010, 09:50:28 AM
Very beautiful scenic pictures  there keep up the great work

Will
Title: Re: New Bordeaux
Post by: Engorn on April 10, 2010, 03:49:37 PM
Well, sorry for having this MD a little bit on stand-by, but I'm very busy those days. Some answers to make it active...

calibanX:Thank you. No, it wasn't me who made the huts. As I said Kelis made some stuff for me for this update. The huts are part of that stuff. ;)
djvandrake:Than you for stopping to comment. :)
Battlecat:Than you a lot. Your comment are appreciated.
burgemeestertijn: :) I'm glad you liked it and I suppose that your comment it is an honor if you don't have the habit of commenting. Time now is nearly all that I have, so there is where I got it. :P
nedalezz: Thanks, a lot. I'm happy that you think that the story is well wrote. English it's not my first language (neither my second or third), and I'm happy if you believe that it really seems like many years ago. It was my whole intention.
kimcar:Thank you. No, as I answered to calibanX, the villages are Kelis's work. Well, he made the props and I made some small lots, put them together and after I made all the scenery. The Christmas pics; yes, they are made with Adobe Photoshop, as most of the visual stuff I made for this MD. ;)
RickD:Thank you. I work on this MD because I like when people makes any comment about it. As any other artist, my intention is to not letting anyone indifferent.
kelis:Thanks to you. Without you this wouldn't have been possible. I still owe you that beer (or anything you want to drink).
penguin007:Thank you.
Title: Re: New Bordeaux
Post by: ShultzCity on April 10, 2010, 04:03:24 PM
Wow, great work!! Love the small villages, and especially those dense forrests! I would have to see the most realistic I have seen. Congrats  &apls
Title: Re: New Bordeaux
Post by: kwakelaar on April 11, 2010, 12:24:19 AM
What a detailed and interesting update, great work on the settlements of the native population.
Title: Re: New Bordeaux
Post by: antimonycat on April 15, 2010, 05:08:43 AM
Fantastic work! I don't think I've seen anything like that - the swampy area and village has a lot of character and your use of mist completes it. Greatly hoping to see more soon!
Title: Re: New Bordeaux
Post by: io_bg on April 17, 2010, 03:53:56 AM
Looks great, especially the photoshopping! Looking forward to more!
Title: Re: New Bordeaux
Post by: Engorn on May 22, 2010, 01:22:39 AM
Well, I know that it's something only about Capital SimCity (CSC, the Spanish SC4 Site) and that those Olympic Games are not very know out of CSC. But I'm so proud about my creation and I want to share it with you. I'm sorry because it's only in Spanish, but it's a free service and I don't have enough space to make it in English too. But it's very eye-candy... ;D Maybe I could make something to add a translator or something like that.

So, if you wanna take a look, here it is: www.mosmanolympics2010.nb (http://mosmanolympics2010.kk5.org/)

(https://www.sc4devotion.com/forums/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fimg381.imageshack.us%2Fimg381%2F7449%2Flogomosman2010peq.png&hash=48494b4f62ea8ab16da75d1ad163b7844848a4aa)
Title: Re: New Bordeaux
Post by: kwakelaar on May 22, 2010, 01:57:23 AM
There has certainly gone a lot of work into this. Nice looking site.
Title: Re: New Bordeaux
Post by: Engorn on May 22, 2010, 09:15:45 AM
Thanks, Kwakelaar. ;)

I forgot to say that if you make click on the sport pictograms (specially on those of the Olympic Park, where the big concentration of those pictograms are) you will see a description of that sport venue. Anyway, sorry, but most of the sport doesn't have their own page due de limitations of the free services. ^^U
Title: Re: New Bordeaux
Post by: ecoba on May 22, 2010, 09:34:16 AM
Wow, just beautiful, my friend. You certainly have put a lot of work into this. :)

Ethan
Title: Re: New Bordeaux
Post by: Engorn on May 22, 2010, 09:36:11 AM
Certainly not. It was started last Wednesday, and till yesterday there aren't be any changes. :P