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Hm, a surviving Kaiser based on the West Coast is an interesting idea, but Wiki claims that Kaiser Motors was based in- you guessed it!- Michigan. But I do see your point, having a "domestic" that can have a different mindset than the other "domestics". (Er, I'm not sure why I put "domestic" in...

Nice map, but it seems a little biased to give Vermont to New York...

Well, don't forget that what's being defined as "the Northeast" is a huge swath of land here... And I would argue that industry and population are very much related- if you have a good job in the city, then you'll probably stay in the city unless you really hate other people... This seems...

Oh wow, I somehow missed this map series, very interesting- and someone using my blobby basemap, yay!

Well, in the end protectionism isn't going to help make better cars, I admit... it'd be odd if you had a protectionist US, but Canada allowed foreign competition in the auto industry, and people tried to sneak Toyotas and what have you into the US... :D :p (This is a problem Japan does not have...

Or, we could adopt Japan-esque protectionist policies towards the auto industry... in Japan, auto imports are highly restricted, and no non-domestic automaker has any factories in the country...

Alright, this makes sense and seems fairly close to what was proposed OTL... interestingly, the B&M lines would be under Chessie ownership rather than MA ownership... I guess you would continue to see a split between "North Side" and "South Side" in the Boston commuter rail system, (gah, I need...

The Turks go to Constantinople! Only, in this scenario, instead of being a decaying capital city of a once-great empire, it's an amusement park! And instead of conquering the city, they go on rides! And rather than kill Constantine XI, they teach him the true meaning of Christmas! Man, I'm a...

I'm just an ultra-regionalist, I couldn't tell you anything about anything outside of Boston :p (As you may have been able to guess...) Even then, I'm better with the New Haven lines south of Boston than the B&M... It is worth noting that in the 1950s, Pat McGinnis had control of both the B&M...

The Boston and Maine was itself a combination of a huge number of railroads that extended north of Boston- the Boston & Lowell, the Eastern Railroad, the Fitchburg Railroad... but the important thing was, it was essentially a monopoly on the lines in its area. (The New Haven was like this as...

You're being unfair on the Flying Yankee here- where else is the Boston & Maine supposed to run it? Portland-Boston was their premiere route. (And remember, you can't run through trains through Boston, and the B&M's western route to Albany via the Fitchburg Line isn't great)

Maybe they would have- note that both those examples were in the 1930s... (and could have been more, if not for the Great Depression, which caused among other things the first bankruptcy of the New Haven) By the 1940s you have the wartime service taking all priority over everything else, and...

That's a nice image of the Karelian bear... I like this design.

@TheMann: So does TTL's Conrail / Chessie System include the Boston and Maine? (This isn't impossible- in OTL it was only saved by the Commonwealth of Massachusetts buying up all its branch lines in the state for commuter service, I was just wondering) Also, the Chessie cat had better be the...

As I recall, part of the issue was that street railways were often owned by electric companies. This produced economies of scale, maintenance-wise... However, reforms put in place- I want to say by FDR, not sure- as part of the New Deal forced electric companies to sell off their streetcar...

The silly thing here is that you're mentioning "the US" as if the entire US was the open expanses west... Who needs the west? (This is a poorly phrased statement so please don't jump on me with comments about resources or farmers or what have you, as I mean in terms of the thread topic) If you...

That's what the railroads were great at back then! It didn't matter what the public thought- you could build huge stone embankments right down the middle of Roxbury, and it was an improvement! And you could build elevated railways... oh, elevated railways... Where else? Consider all the...

So we can have an early POD? So, I think the Roman Empire would be more likely to take on large infrastructure projects... :p Hm, I don't know- if you can go back to the beginning of the twentieth century, then you have a lot more money and things are less expensive. After WW2, though, it's...

Hm, I don't know- the main issues I see are digging underneath Manhattan, which has hugely expensive real estate and subway lines everywhere, and the fact that Grand Central Terminal was designed as a Terminal, so some major alterations to the station would be needed. (Penn Station does have...

Well, I mean, the easiest thing to do would be to just run any early tests on the Boston-New Haven portion of the Shore Line, if the wires are really that large of a clearance issue... though, the MBTA at least runs double-decker trains underneath catenary wire on the Providence Line today (the...