They drive on a dirt road alongside the dried-out
river name. The road is in pretty poor condition and they get
shaken thoroughly.
Mary appears to be having a blast:
Faster! Faster!
I don't think Annie would appreciate
that.
Aww.
Annie says thanks from the rear seats.
After a bit less than ten minutes of driving, Mary points to a structure
extending into the river bed and says:
That's it.
Jack pulls over and parks the truck, and they get out. They walk through
the tall grass towards the structure. A bridge further upstream catches
Jack's attention.
Is that a road or a railway?
Mary says: Railway – why?
What's the condition like?
Not sure, it's been a while...
We used to play there as kids, we even got a railcar to move once.
Sounds like serviceable enough to me. Do you
know where it goes?
There's a train station a bit that way,
with a bunch of other ruins in the area.
And the other direction?
I don't know. We followed it pretty far,
the only thing we found is a switch.
Okay. Would be incredibly useful if that ended
up somewhere in Ivydale.
They reach the structure. It's the entrance to a tunnel with a few walls that pertrude into the river and two weers? translate: Stauwehre / Wehre, one for controlling the inflow? tanslate: Zufluss, one for a bypass. The floor of the tunnel sits significantly beneath the river bed and, while the river bed is completely dry, there is still some water inside.
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