Hi Toren,
No, not really, the ground as in the hills and valleys (including the ocean bottom) I think started out as a DEM part from California, but the water parts are freelanced, the rails are freelances, the trees are freelances.
The towns are freelanced, the whole map is a fully freelanced map.
But, the name Northbay - which was suggested by the group as a name on a bay I at first called Norway bay (being Norwegian and proud of it I tried to sneak my country in there) - came as a result of trying to simplify the names, and thanks to my friend long after the map been out digging up a place in Canada I learned about the name actually also being a real place with a mining connection.
But, that was an "accident", not the idea or plan at all!
The route plan was a group effort based on the idea I think to get the most out of a small area to model and the most interesting type of traffic for a map to be used in Trainz, and then it went from there.
I wrote a fiction background story for the 2-foot gauge and the Gossen Island, but it has since for years been off the Internet as it seemed to be a non interesting history other then for me and possible a couple of others.
Hope this was of some interest?
And I did not mess up some of the facts guys?
Linda
