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@mayorm: Thank you for this nice comment


U49 - Yánshí Haitan&Golfclub

Heyho and welcome to the fourtyninth update of my CJ Dragon Islands.

Today I'm going to show you the third part of the small cities and their sourroundings on the small islands.
The region around Yánshí Haitan....

The "big bridge"...
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"Green castle"...
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A half island I really like....
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The castle of Yánshí Haitan...
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Yánshí Haitan golf club, oasis of peace, only 10 minutes by ferry from the busy center of Xian.
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And a Zoomout.
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I hope you liked this entry, greetings, Skimbo =)

Next up: Jubilee edition 50

Another very realistic and detailed update. I love all of your custom content. And I have to say, that golf course looks to be very difficult

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@mayorm: Thanks a lot for your nice comment =) This golf course is shureley not the easieest one


U50 - Jubilee

Heyho and welcome to the 1st jubilee update of my CJ Dragon Islands.

Today we will take the old JR0 again.

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^^Ok, I think most of you remember this place^^
So you know where we are.
Let's start our Kodama journey to Shì Yan. First we will ride out of the depot and pick up the passengers at the Airport station.....
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After picking up about 320 passengers (This time a JR300 has to stay at home that normally runs this service) the JR0 heads to Lòng Chéng, the first stop on our route.
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There is nothing an old Bullet train likes more than running at top speed.....
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This bridge connects the western islands with the dragon Isle.
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Welcome to Lòng chéng zhongyang chezhàn. Somehow a well known place n this CJ the train is pretty crowded, nearly no free seats left....
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Heading through the city to the next Stop, Lònghú.
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The beginning of the bridge over the Dragon's neck.
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Short after stopping at the central Station of Lònghú whe head through this scene... does someone remmber it?
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Still Lònghú.
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Heading into the center of Liu shì, this city is squeezed in between Lònghú and Shì yan, together those three cities form a small metropolis.
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We reach this place short after stopping at the station of Liu Shì. Still very crowded the train heads to it's next stop - Shì Yan.
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The track leads through a poor district of Liu shì, thoose wooden homes belong workers of the closeup factories. The second JR0 in the pic is owned by eastern DI rail and still in regular service.
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A lot more wealthy athmosphrere when reaching Shì Yan.
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We reach the main station of Shì Yan, The - still crowded- JR0 will continue it's service to the airport of Shì Yan where it will wait in the depot for further tours through DI.....
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I hope you've liked this update, greetings, Skimbo.

lovely update. I love those trains and all of the details you have put into your transit updates. Also you have a great region there.

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@mayorm: Thank you =)


U51 - Shì Yan Central&Temples

Heyho and welcome to the fiftyfirst update of my CJ Dragon Islands.

Today I'm going to show you some pictures from Shì Yan district Zhōngyāng hé sìmiào (Central&Temples) It's one of the two financial districts of the city's center. The area is bordered by the area around the Shì Yan central station in the north and the main road in the south.

Let's start with a picture of the main temple, located at the main road.
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This area is located at the east end of the district.
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The area around central station.
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Around central school.
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Central Station.
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The main temple again.
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And some heavy train traffic.
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I hope you've liked this update, greetings, Skimbo

Amazing updates Skimbo

great pictures skimbo, I like that last pic with the trains making there way along the side of the picture. And I love all of the temples mixed in with the modern surroundings.

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@saathoff: Thank you!
@mayorm: Thanks a lot. This mixture of old&new can be found in many japaneese cities, and I like it




Link section > I recieved many PMs and comments asking for thoose BATs shown in update 51:

Pic09: Shì Yan main station (Scroll down a bit, Chineese site, registration for downloading needed)

http://www.simcity.cn/blog.php?tid=75922

Pic10 (The building topleft and the long building bottom left)) Pic11 (The builing that dominates the left side) (Japaneese site)

http://sc4batworks.web.fc2.com/dbat.html

Pic12: The building with thoose grassy roof gardens(Japaneese site, scroll down to the bottom)

http://members3.jcom.home.ne.jp/somy000/




U52 - Shì Yan Greenhill

Heyho and welcome to the fifthysecond update of my CJ Dragon Islands.

Today I'm going to show you the Gelin Xi er(greenhill) district of Shì Yan. It's located to the west and southwest of the Central&Temples district and - as the name says - mostly located on a hill.

But steep roads or the need for terraces, as shown here do not prevent the city from growing.
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A new building under construction at the southwestern end of the district.
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The hill is cind of a barrier for the traffic, it has to go around it. This leads to a jammy situartion.
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This area is located next to the border to the central district.
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Still along the eastern border of the district.
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The road up to the district West bay is always busy, here shown next to the main hospital.
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The other road that leads around the hill, not much traffic due no rush hour at the moment....
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Some terraces in the central area.
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This tunnel marks the northern end of the district, it leads on the other site of the main line.
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And, as a conclusion: A nightpic.
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I hope you liked this update, greetings, Skimbo =)

I really love all of those pictures Skimbo and those buildings. How did you get the tunnel under that one building?

Wow! So much custom content! Amazing.

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@mayorm: Thanks, I just used a hole digger lot to build the tunnel and zoned the area afterwards.
@Samerton: Thanks I was just fed up with all that Maxis crap last year ;D


U52 - Shì Yan Zhongyang wan


Heyho and welcome to the fiftythird update of my CJ Dragon Islands. Today I'm going to show you the District Central Bay of Sh'i Yan. It's called central bay because of it's central position at the five bay districts.

The Bay Tower is the eyecatcher of this district.
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The small Marina will have to be expanded soon.
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Somewehrer along mainroad, the northern district border.
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Still along mainrad, more to the east.
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Zoomed out a little
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A hotel complex&Bay tower.
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Beach in the night
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A small road
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Okay, due this ain't a vampire diary, some day pics as well

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And a small overview abot the district.
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I hope you've liked this update, greetings, Skimbo =)

oooo, excellent can't wait for more

wonderful tower, it really is an eyecatcher. I also love all the night pictures, because this seems like the place where you would find a lot of nightclubs and things.

I see your next update deals with transit, so I look forward to seeing that

very nice night pics

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@Guitarmansuperstar: Thanks a lot =)
@Mayorm: Thanks, ther are some clubs for shure
@Reaper: thanks a lot =)


U54 - SYRT Cycle line

Heyho and welcome to the fiftyfourth update of my CJ Dragon Islands.

Today we're going to take a ride on Shì Yan's Cycle line, outer cycle.

We are going to start at a already known point of the route, the central station.
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Our train is a short version of a series 207, green livery. So let's start up, our first stop will be Cháng hútòng.
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This stop is located between the golf course and Central station district.
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The light rail line crossing is the Central+Yuki line, we're going to meet it again later on.
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Greenhill station
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Here the Cycle line takes the tracks to the bottom right while Coastal line runs straight to the west.
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West bay station. That's the area we will be visiting at the nxt update.
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Here you find a lot of social housing next to hi tec industry. Saphira&Eastside line is crossing underneath without an excange station.
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Oak road station is located in eastern West bay.
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Let's ride on to south bay, a very expansive place to live... and high dense.
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South Bay station is squeezed in between highrises, a train of the inner cycle is passing by...
Transfer to Port&Industrial line.
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Eastern Southbay.
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Now we're heading over the bay Bridge.
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Our next stop, Rubin Boulevard is located in the district Southbeach.
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Another high dense area.
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Rubin boulevard is one of the main roads, it connects to South bay and East Bay.
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Now it's time to head back to the CBD and meet the coastal line again. Running through southern East Bay.
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Running over East Bay bridge.
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East Bay Station is located at the northern end of the district. Transfer to CBD& Eastside and Saphira&Eastside line.
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Now we're heading to downtown station, meeting Central&Hong Sì line, Liù&Industrial line and Cenral+Yuki line again.
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And the last piece of or our, back to Central Station.
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I hope you've liked this update, greetings, Skimbo =)

Great update. I like the usage of CC

Very nice update. Again I love the transportation theme, and I love all the different ways the line snakes through town, and meanwhile passes through unique areas, and each station is also unique which I love.

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@cheese: Thanks a lot for that. I actually wanted to have a region where you need to search for maxis things and not the other way round.
@mayorm: THanks a lot for that =)


U55


Heyho and welcome to the fiftyfith update of my CJ Dragon Islands. Today I'm going to show you the west bay district of Shì Yan.

The West bay is squeezed in between small mountains, the end of the bay reaches a flat area on which the small district center find's it's place.

At the southern end some highrises are squeezed into the small flat strip between steep foresty area and water.
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Ao Ke lu station is located in between the district's center and the first social housing projects of saphira district.
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But, old social housing flats can be found at West bay as well.
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West Bay beach.
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Another sqeezed-in-stripe, this time between greenhill and the bay.
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This area is located next to the downtown and builds the northern and of the district, bordering greenhill to the north and central bay to the east.
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A small mosaique of this district.
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And a nightpic:
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I hope you've liked this update, greetings, Skimbo

Great update skimbo, I love the mosaic view of the district. I also love the way you build your city around the landscapes.

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@mayorm: Thanks a lot and nice that you like it!


U56


Heyho and welcome to the fiftysixth update of my CJ Dragon islands.

Today we will visit the Saphira district of Shì Yan. This district is located at the western end of the city and is splitted into 1/3 high dense residential area, 1/3 sports park and 1/3 hi-tec park.

Let's start at a point you already know, the social housing projects near Ao ke lù station.
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The western end of the residential area presents itself a bit wealthier than the eastern end.
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But all of this area is dominated by two orange-red towers at the waterside.
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The area to the west and south of the highrises gave this district it's name. From 1900 onward a big jevellery manufacture doinated all the area along the coast. The main products whas jevellery with thoose nice saphires in their wounderful colors, when it burnt down and went bankrupt in 1986, it left nearly 13.000 workers without a job and a big unused area.

In the late 1990s the city government nominated this area as one of the possible places for a new supersports center and won this project.
The project contained the renovation of the old baseball stadium shown in the next picture....
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...a completeley new watersports arena...
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...a new mutifunctional arena, used for basketball games, as concert hall and so on...
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...And a new soccer arena that can also be used for multiple other cinds of sports.
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The whole complex is located along the shoreline and uses huge parks as filler pieces, partyfields for fans and other stuff.
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Some overground parking and a metro station complete the complex.
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Northern Saphira is a Hi-Tec industry park, one of many in this region.
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And a small overview =)
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I hope you've liked this update, greetings, Skimbo

great update Skimbo, I love how you have made the maxis stadium fit in with other downloaded stadiums

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@mayorm: Thanks a lot =)


U57


Heyho and welcome to the fiftyseventh update of my CJ Dragon Islands. Today we're going to take a trainride again. We're going to take the Coastal limited from Shì Yan to Hong Sí.

Shì Yan, 10:35PM. We and some other passengers are waiting for the DI-East service 0942 on plattform 5 of Shì Yan central station. The train will be pretty crowded today due the DISC tracks are blocked for very important works on a bridge. Service 0947 is a paralelle running regional rail service and builds together with the special services 5047 and 5048 the replacement for this late evening hour's HSR trains between Lònghú and Hong Sì airport.
The normal 4-car-EMU got extended by one normal and one motor carriage to increase the capacity.
We will leave the train again at Hòng sì while it will continue it's service to the airport and will arrive after a few more stops at Shì Fenghuang.
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After the departure.
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Our train is rushing over the viaduct leading to the left end of the picture while another E257 is heading straight.
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Running through Shi Yan....
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....Over east bay Bridge....
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...Takeing the single track over to the coastal line...
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...Rushing through a small commuter station...
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Ariving at the first Neighbourhoods of Hòng Sì...
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Passing through another Hi-Tec park....
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Running along the coast
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Arrival at Hòng sí Station.
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I hope you've liked this update, greetings, Skimbo.

Great update Skimbo, the rail lines are looking great

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@mayorm:Thanks, as always


U58

Heyho and welcome to the fiftyeith update of my CJ Dragon Islands.

Today I'm going to show you 8 pics of the snamm eastside district of Shì Yán.

Let's start with this image. Thoose estates are located partly in the east side and partly in the east bay district.



This area is located in the district' s center
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The old temple is sourrounded by highrises.
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The southern border
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Central school and eastside station (Coastal line)
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Steep mountains are the district's south border.
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Eastern eastend is the beginning of the suburbz
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And a small overview....
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I hope you've liked this small update, greetings, Skimbo.

looks like a great update Skimbo, I love how you show the overviews of the areas with the surrounding areas being blurred.