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The railroad lines in and around the port have seen tremendous progress since I figured out this area, with the tracks that cover the entire ground level of the port descend to the sublevels on a ramp to reach the customs/central mail building, contiguous to the passenger platforms, in a vast underground railroad complex. In theory, every import arriving to the city could be efficiently moved to te customs building for sorting and duties and from there to a future wholesale marketplace in the area, with a deep tunnel planned to take the freight line all the way to the north side shopping district. All of this takes a lot of time to plan (as well as to build by hand, which helps me plan better) but the idea is that the flow of goods through the city would be an inevitability for the region, with infrastructure growing radially to suck up all the produce and resources from the closest temperate biomes in all cardinal directions.

This railroad bridge carries the southwest line across the West River and will serve existing and planned towns on the peninsula seen in the map (last picture). This is the only remaining railroad that isn’t connected to at least one town beyond city limits and is expected to reach the desert biome seen in the last picture, luckily the tundra is relatively flat and the y=72 street and railroad grade is more or less on level, so what little time I have to play this week should be enough to make more noticeable progress

Eleventh Avenue has finally reached the West River as I had a moment of inspiration that helped me solve some pending uncertainties regarding this area of the city; this bridge was built to get the road across the river and will continue west across the peninsula seen in the last picture, in the center of which the city is located, towards several villages located on the edge of the tundra and near other villages on the temperate biomes at the very tip of the peninsula. The different railroad lines that will cover the region were planned before the idea of building this paved road towards the villages and thus cover other areas of the peninsula, the result should eventually be widespread infrastructure across the region. As the road is built at y=72, the difference in height allows for tunnels for four redstone powerlines to be carried under the road towards the villages, in turn allowing the possibility of a regional redstone power grid controlled from the city in the future.

These streets have been unfinished for years as I couldn’t decide what to build below, I take such instances as a sign to move on to another project until the solution presents itself—in this case, after having rationalized several powerlines all over the city and being actively considering the eventual spot for the power station while at the same time taking into account depth limitations due to planned subway routes, I realized that all substations can easily be connected to the entirety of Twelfth Ave (the unfinished north south avenue seen in the pictures) without disrupting existing or planned infrastructure, and so Im using this tunnel design that has become standard for redstone infrastructure to eventually take those signals to the port

This is the fourth of six of these substation type buildings planned for my long term city project, each neighborhood has one of these to control different features and areas of the neighborhood, as wwll as a light sensor hidden in the smokestack for the streetlights (which is why there is one in each neighborhood).

I haven’t had much time to play but I’ve been working on this very complex building that started conceptually as an administrative building for the port to be built on top of the freight platforms of the underground Eleventh Avenue Station—this platforms serve the short-line railroad that operates within the port area, so (having worked in logistics for a few years) the idea of a sorting area for all the freight moving through the port seemed like an obvious development. As always, the interior arrangements are thought as functional, balancing real life feasibility and the infrastructure being functional for its purpose if the world were in survival mode. Its worth noting that the railway complex under Eleventh now has 8 platforms, three double track lines going in and out and surface of about four city blocks, with access and connection to the elevated railway station located directly above it on 16th St and a subway planned under the existing underground railroad tracks.

I determined the ideal location for the South Side West electric substation was this very old city block so as per tradition the existing building was burned down for entertainment reasons and because that's why I used to only do full timber interiors with a gravel roof.
All new construction north of 9th Avenue follows the several fire safety requirements mandated by the building code, while several City Council decrees deregulated real estate development south of 9th to lower the cost of construction in order to quickly develop the housing necessary for the refugees arriving by railway from the shanty towns across the strait (not one villager has been artificially spawned in years and thats why so many villagers have grassland clothing). The staircase in this tenement building had wooden stairs and slabs even if enclosed by bricks, which allowed the quick spreading of the fire; these days every block composing a staircase in any building must be fireproof, but every residential building in the South Side is still built with full timber interior and nicknamed "fire traps"

The first of several apartment buildings planned to line 9th Avenue, designed with middle class families in mind to create a neighborhood to serve as a buffer between the tenements of the South Side and the massive apartments and townhouses of the North Side. The building is my first attemt to create "modern" middle class residences within the city, built with cheaper materials than the more modest apartments of the North Side but with attention to aesthetic finishes and with all the installations required by the city building code: redstone power for lighting, one toilet per unit connected to the sewage system, and a wood burning fireplace for heating, in addition to fireproof construction. Its worth noting that the building has stables in the basement with space for one horse per unit, as well as two stores on the ground floor.

Not unlike the entrance to the Aquarium at Highland Park that I built last year, this temple-like structure is mostly a glorified entrance to the facilities located below it, in this case a restaurant with two salons in the manner of the Palm House restaurant in the conservatory-type structure in the same park. From the outside, the glass-enclosed structure resembles the typical pavilions found in public "pleasure gardens" of the 19th century, and has practical function of housing a wide array of colorful flowers that are understood to otherwise not be able to tolerate the harsh weather of the tundra, hence the name of the building. The use of the same temple design that I used last year in Highland Park creates, in my opinion, a coherent landscape for the North Side, as it is now enclosed on its south and east borders by two large parks with similar landscaping. Not all, but most streets and avenues of the North Side have very pleasing terminating vistas in similar themes, and this structure serves that purpose for the south terminus of 21st Street.

An interesting read for context is Pavilion - History of Early American Landscape Design

Its called that because there is an underground river running below part of it, parallel to 6th Avenue, that was reinforced as the park was built on top; what took the most time was getting an individual powerline to feed a light detector in the park itself to control the lights and setting up all the redstone, but I am happy with the result, as all the lights flicker on at dusk. New venues are being added to the several existing stores lining the underground street under the park—with a large underground stable complex for parking horses—and like the existing restaurant, the new spaces will have natural light with large copper skylights and a marble entrance to integrate the different layers of the city. It’s worth noting that upon finishing the underground street under the park, the sublevel system reached 18th St effectively looping back to the start of the tunnel system, begun in early 2025. The massive underground loop encircles the entire old part of the city and stretches several blocks beyond in different directions.