The Golden Great Bridge by frogdot

Bryce • (none) • posted on Jan 23, 2005

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Description

History says little about my great-grandfather, Frogdip. In 1850, long with his partner, Remington T. Toad, they built a railway empire that ran between San Francisco and the goldrush country in the Sierra Nevada. The pinnacle of their achievement was The Golden Great Bridge. Spanning the entrance to San Francisco Bay, the bridge allowed trainloads of gold to be shipped directly into the city. Even though the bridge was an engineering marvel and easily repaired when damaged, the government decided it was too dangerous and closed it down after 23 of the 24 trains that crossed, crashed into the ocean before reaching the other end. The bridge was dismantled and forgotten. Toad and Frogdip lost everything in the lawsuits. Happily, they rebuilt their fortune tenfold when they pioneered the field of underwater salvage and retreived all the gold that had been laying at the bottom of the bay.
*** Road/tracks made with RG's Roadbuilder beta for Bryce. Track texture and greyscales for lattices, painted in Photoshop. 15 lattices/terrains for bridge. 8 tiled terrains for water. Land mat by Monsoon. Train from 3DCafe-altered by me.