infrastructure

Alright, inspired by the recent Unbuilt Canada and Unbuilt Australia threads, along with the somewhat more distant Unbuilt Britain thread. This is a thread for sharing and discussing proposed, planned, or cancelled building/infrastructure projects in Japan, and their potential impact had they...

As fanciful as it now seems, there were genuine proposals to build a fixed link between Great Britain and Ireland in the 1890s, notably by (Northern) Irish engineer Luke Livingston Macassey. Macassey offered seven different options for such a link, including two solid bridges and five tunnels...

With the large number of Major and tributary rivers across the heart of Russia that flows into multiple Seas, would a larger Canal Network be a boon for the Russian Empire?

After learning about the American Ice Trade in the 19th century, I got thinking. Would a ROMAN ice trade be theisable and how would it affect the Roman Diet, Society and Court life? Also, what sort of infustructure would have to be put in place to make this happen? (Ice Mining in the Rhine, Ice...

Let’s say if Egypt managed to gain control of the Sudan somehow from the British. Could they build the dam somewhere in Sudan instead of the OTL location of the Answam Dam? Would it work? And what would happen? Is it that much different from the OTL dam?

I was recently reading the comic "The League o Extraordinary Gentlemen"(I'd recommend it to anyone into Steampunk, a really good one) and in it, one of the things that I found interesting, if secondary, was that instead of a Channel Tunnel, there was a gigantic bridge bwpetween Calais and Dover...

The challenge is simple. Make Ft. Wayne the largest city in Indiana as opposed to Indianapolis. If possible, try to think of some realistic consequences of if this were the case.

In a world where the Empire remained strong and stable, (Why? I don't know, perhaps no intervention in WWI to start) would it have funded people and projects that could lead to an earlier form of the Internet (primary incentive being faster and safer communication across the Empire in a way the...