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But even Minuteman and Polaris systems are reasonably viable launch vehicles. No you aren't going to be putting Mercury on top of one, but in terms of reconnaissance capability the loss of capability associated with being forced onto a smaller vehicle is marginal. By the time you get demands...

The delay in ICBM development is, imo, likely to be significant, but less than a decade. My guess is that you'll see SAM and air to air missile systems being the first created, but longer range and liquid fueled systems are a pretty obvious direction to go based on the success of systems like...

And that's the most realistic outcome. If NATO calls their bluff you're going to get some kind of negotiation wherein one side or the other will walk away for some reason that will be described as an unacceptable condition placed on membership by the other. Realistically the Soviets can't...

*bump* Ok, so there is some content here. I never published the map late TL Detroit I put together during the last attempt at a collaborative Transport America, so here it is: http://www.scribblemaps.com/maps/view/SxdCS2H6iD Blue marks conventional rapid transit, green is electrified regional...

Just a quick update on what I'm doing for Vancouver. I'm waiting on some stuff from the library before I write up the early history of how Vancouver came about, but I've put together a map circa of the region circa 1962. http://www.scribblemaps.com/maps/view/pvWC4eb0mU Forgive the direct...

Would it be possible? Definitely. There was a fairly serious attempt to do it, either as a direct canalization of the Clyde (more or less parrallel to the existing canal) or through Loch Long and Loch Lomond. It seems to have been largely conceived of as a strategic response to the Kiel...

Honestly probably for the best. The biggest effect that would have is a serious reduction in the amount of aid and support coming out of the US. Alienate Americans from the paramilitaries and they are going to have a much harder time operating.

Most plausible I can think of (and wow is that stretching the word) would be as some kind of peacekeeping force created in the aftermath of the Irish implementing exercise armageddon. How or why either would happen I have no idea.

Using that, but what I really need in Vancouver isn't so much a system map as a street map or fire insurance map. Trying to figure out the scale and plausibility of the work involved in extending the Central Park ROW. There was some examination of it in between the wars, but I have yet to...

Unprotected yes, but the Central Park corridor is definitely going to move toward protected crossings throughout. Not an overnight transition certainly, but very few areas it would be problematic. In the core, no, thats not going to happen, but even if it does have to run up Commercial a few...

Certainly early on you have a point, but there's definitely going to be grade separated entrance to the core at some point shortly after the highway fight (no, it won't be Dunsmuir if for no other reason than full size LRV's aren't going to fit double stacked). At the same time I'd disagree...

A Google doc is actually probably the best option in terms of writing collaboratively. Full word processing, real time multi user editing, integrated commenting and chat. Facebook and Skype don't really seem to do anything we dontbhave here or through a Google doc, and both docs and the forum...

Let's try and keep the momentum up on this. Its probably time to be taking less in generalities than to start writing specific pieces, but there hasn't really been much talk about formats... So I guess the question is, where do we go from here. I'd like to start writing, and to keep momentum...

My view is that yes, most streetcar systems will still disappear, and all will certainly still shrink massively, but at the same time there is money available to those cities that DO want to renew the systems (and they weren't as rare as you might think, even Detroit talked seriously about...

The problem is that Toronto is nowhere near the border crossing, and moreover that there are some very significant intermediate stops. If you pre clear a a Chicago bound train in Toronto it isn't going to be able to serve any of Burlington, Bradford, London or even Windsor itself to take just...

I'm not convinced of the merit of a Chicago - Toronto service to be honest. You're either going to end up running nonstop on the Canadian side or having to have a border control stop, and neither option seems terribly attractive. At the same time I'm thinking that there is going to be a semi...

I wonder if it might be best to keep Mirabel post war. Instead of being a rush for the Olympics associate Mirabel with Expo 67, such that the rail link becomes seen as essential to the big (might we even butterfly the temporary metro line and better integrate the Yellow line with the rest of...

Missed this post somehow. I'd quite like to keep Vancouver's streetcars actually, and it shouldn't be too hard to do (completely forgot about this the other night... only really was thinking about the interurbans) BC Hydro wanted to order a pile of new PCC's but it was killed in favour of the...

My thinking is that much as OTL VIA will start as a direct subsidiary of CN, but will quickly end up operating CPR’s services as well with some kind of agreement based on track time and equipment in exchange for dropping the requirement for CPR to operate the service. In OTL VIA basically took...

Maybe the Smithsonian takes the lead on something equivalent to the NASM? Might make more sense to assume that there is a Smithsonian National Transportation Museum. In any case, I can't imagine it to be a true analogue of the National Railway Museum if for no other reason than the size of the...