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Northern Alberta, Canada

A map for the great white north. I have made some design decisions here which alot of you probably wont agree with but I felt necessary for a true northern Alberta map:

- The highway has no offramp to start - northern Alberta started on dirt roads and later single lane highways. Many smaller communities have the main highway become their mainstreet. I wanted to mimic this as closely as I could.

- Only 2 highway access & rail points. It would be unreasonable to believe that 3 highways would intersect at a new town on this map.

- You start with a rail connection. Rail was the backbone to settling towns in northern Alberta. Now if only we had some grain elevators....

{edit - turns out we made one.... https://steamhost.cn/steamcommunity_com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=439556046}

- Train tracks actually cross the highway! - again, this is quite common as our population is vastly spread out and overpasses in smaller communities could not be justified. Halting highway traffic flow for a 50-car train is not out of the ordinary.

I hope this maps proves fun for everyone. I enjoy starting with the above frustrations and then creating the infrastructure in time to overcome the issues, as many cities in northern Alberta have. It always bothered me that a new town had a massive off ramp system as it seemed unreasonable.

Any questions or comments are always welcome!