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Agreed. And basically hits exactly what I was going to suggest. Taking Persia by some means is so tempting in terms of map-making. Honestly, I want this one as a full TL, and yes, of course I want to focus on the railway ;)

The cross link just got my attention, and I wonder if there's a simpler answer buried in all the talk of canals and barge traffic: if HBC wanted prairie settlement, early steamships to Thunder Bar and a railroad to prairie settlements from there will get you a much bigger Thunder Bay that could...

Sort of I'd say... Although it seems like building out more railroads earlier takes the pressure off any strong demand to increase river traffic or push grain toward Churchill. Especially if a Georgian Bay Canal brings ocean shipping to Thunder Bay before WWI. Although on that note, an earlier...

There's a lot of jumping about, and definitely not a mission by mission timeline, but that sounds right. The Soviets appear to still be flying single man missions, and without further details I lean toward imagining something on the level of an LK version of the LM shelter being what's extending...

I'm feeling ever more like an ISOT handbook would be a valuable project. Like genuinely something worth printing for preppers. Compile the best set of resources for building an industrial society in a format small enough to printable, and that assumes the folks reading it already have plenty...

I wonder if a car-carrying version of the California Zephyr might be a decent candidate for surviving Amtrak and expanding car-on-train?

Now, when I talk about the timeline I'm tentatively calling "Transport Canada" the idea is more or less to advance everything railroad, transit and infrastructure related in Canada by ten years with the big highlights for the mainline railroads being: CPR reaches Vancouver in the 1870s rather...

The currents are also a real bitch in the mouth of the Fraser. I wouldn't expect to have a lot of fun getting a ship of any size up to Port Mann - and CanNor seems to have been quite serious about running their own Pacific ships. The version I keep hearing is that Mackenzie and Mann were well...

I'm working through my thoughts on making the Canadian Railways work again and am wondering if anyone has ever seen something with any kind of details on the Canadian Northern plans for a tunnel entering Vancouver? It was fairly preliminary when they signed the agreements, but I've never even...

*sigh* I honestly thought they'd pull through in some form.

I'd think it's far more likely you'd see a version of the Georgian Bay Canal than the Seaway as we know it...

CSGN was precisely the ship intended to more or less fill the role. Bearing in mind that it was always meant to carry a couple of 8 inch guns a TL more committed to gunfire could pretty easily butterfly the through deck CSGN designs and have at least some talk of a new 12", ending up with the...

I like. The timing even works for it to be rush deployed on the Montana's, and then the weirdo overpriced system helps justify the level of rebuild needed to move to VLS and Standard the 80s.

So to make this a bit more specific, lets try this: -BB-65 and 66 are never re-ordered as Iowa Class ships, both are laid down as USS Montana and USS Ohio but cancelled at wars end somwhere short of where Illinois and Kentucky were OTL -Iowas are withdrawn from service on schedule in the late...

Given the unlikliehood of that what comes to mind for me is refitting one of Illinois or Kentucky as a proof of concept. This could make particular sense if the original order for those hulls as the first Montana's goes ahead.

I have no words for how much I love this.

Remember that Android came in a few years after iPhone, and a year or two after that to be anything legitmately on the same level as an iPhone. If MS pushes a viable mobile product early on there would seem to be a VERY good chance that Android is at best an also-ran, and imo given the...

The edit is the way to go for lots of monorails. If gets started LA in the 50s, even reduced to something like the LAX proposal, it isn't likely to stop building altogether. That kind of precedent is going to exert real influence going forward, and I'd fully expect Seattle to have an easier time...

Remember that the World's Fair era is exactly where the 1970s subway propsal (Forward Thrust?) came from. So the question becomes what is actualyl built for the Worlds Fair, what is built immedietely after and what the public plan becomes with the (presumably still private?) monorail being more...

All things considered "SHIT!" being the first words is an entirely plausible outcome. Mostly it just becomes an anecdote about... I don't really know.. the fallibility of man or some such?