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  1. Explain the AH Quote

    The words uttered by the assassin Jacob Smith before deciding to kill UK Prime Minister Byron Loews-Burnett at the extraordinary UN Security Council session to avoid escalation of the Indo-Chinese border conflict into a full blown World War. The constant ramping up of tensions and responses had...

  2. Worst-Case Scenario for British at Jutland?

    Worst? Or...best..?

  3. Explain the AH Quote

    Last words of Lt. Henry K. Hollingsworth, who was awarded two Bronze Stars, two Purple Hearts, and a Medal of Honor for various action in the first and second Gulf Wars, before falling into the service pit at a local Jiffy Lube.

  4. Was There Any Point Italy Could've Beaten Austria-Hungary In A War?

    I think that 1914 showed that they were quite capable of doing both, without too much effort.

  5. Explain the AH Quote

    Specifically, the end of Act III. For those not entirely familiar with the original play by the (otherwise unknown) Austrian playwright Lorenz Blaes-Bylandt (1899-1944)*, this dialogue was unfortunately left out of the operatic adaptation written by Giacomo Andretti, Due Grandi Imperatori. The...

  6. What TL ideas do you have that will probably never see the light of day?

    I have had, for many years, a personal idea/project (that I have mentioned several times in the past) based on the Transportation Act of 1920-specifically the consolidation of American railroads into a smaller number of larger systems. I have long since established what I want them to look like...

  7. US Rail: sanity options 1945 - 2000

    Public money to fund private rail service? For HSR? In the USA ? Between 1945 and 2000? I'm afraid that this is DOA. OTL Amtrak is as good as it was going to get (though there are a few missed opportunities there, too). Firstly, until, say, 1960-ish, the two groups that would have opposed it...

  8. Explain the AH Quote

    From an interview with Bringham Young IV, reminiscing about the Second Great Trek of the Church of Latter-Day Saints from Utah, after the US-Soviet nuclear exchange of 1985. The launches occurred when President Reagan made a sound check by counting down from ten to one, while (coincidentally) an...

  9. The Alternate History Syllabus Challenge!

    University of Wisconsin School of Transportation Economics Transportation Economics 250 Professor L. Beebe Course Title: The Consolidation of American Railroads (3 credits) Prerequisite: American Railroad Development, 1828-1914 This course will cover the development of the "Public Plan" that...

  10. Explain the AH Quote

    From The Five Rivers of Civilization, by the French statesman and savant Pierre Langdouc Francois Fermat-Atringue (1829-1904). His extensive travels throughout the French Union were chronicled in this (oddly numbered) seven volume set. Besides the standard European travelogue, he posited the...

  11. Unbuilt Canada

    From what little I recall of CNoR/GT/GTP history, was there any way to reorganize the companies through regular (though obviously very large) bankruptcy proceedings? Iirc, the CNoR was pretty much all bonded with provincial guarantees, while the GTP was guaranteed by the GT. Perhaps some form of...

  12. Unbuilt Canada

    Are there any unbuilt plans for for what was eventually built as Montreal's Central Station?

  13. Unbuilt Canada

    At the risk of turning this into an "Unbuilt Prince Rupert" thread...Had the GTP remained under separate operation/control (in public or private hands) than the CNoR, how large would PR have realistically grown by, say, 1940? 1960? My impression is that the GTP was a long, empty line from...

  14. Urban Development WIs

    Does this include the unrealized city plans of, say, Chicago, or San Francisco (among many others)?

  15. Explain the AH Quote

    Verses 9-14 of the 3rd chapter of the Book of Armachiand, telling the story of the origin of the world, from the Tzu'ligur civilization, which flourished along the upper Indus valley c. 2400-1900 BC. Although fragmentary, it seems to posses many parallels with the Judeo-Christian story of the...

  16. No Kansas-Nebraska act?

    Hmmm. Interesting. This could set off all kinds of political jockeying, with each faction trying to admit as many small states as possible to "keep up" with the other. Given the geography of North America, the territory for slave states looks like it would simply run out before that for free...

  17. Railroads after a Confederate Victory

    If the CSA wins its independence, I would expect that the status quo antebellum would continue as far as CSA railroad construction and operation. As DG Valdron pointed out, this would tend toward local projects, to facilitate easier access to water transport (river or ocean). Over the course of...

  18. AHC: Prevent collapse of American Steel Industry

    Part of this is what is meant by "the steel industry"? Turning ore into basic ingots/slabs/shapes? Making those into semi finished products? Turning those semi finished products into finished goods?

  19. Explain the AH Quote

    Otto von Bismark's exchange with King William of Prussia after the Ems Incident, where the Italian government protested that, if Prussia wanted to put a "second rank Hohenzollern on the second rate throne of a second rate kingdom, they might just as well do so in Hungary". Austro Hungarian...

  20. WI: Causewaylion? The Nazis try to build a causeway to Britain after defeating the Soviet Union.

    By the time it is finished, I don't think Margaret Thatcher is going to stand for any of their nonsense at all.
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