AHC: The Innuitian-Inca Railroad Company

[juanml82]

Ahnah dropped her coat in the train cabin and threw herself in the bed-chair. She had a long trip ahead of her and hoped she could catch up with her studies for the Nunatukavut University. However, she didn't fool herself. If she remained alone in the cabin, by the time she'd arrived to Cuzco next week, she would have studied very little and written pages and pages about things that never were but could have been if history had turned out different. For instance, WI airplanes were developed sooner and thus, traveling all the way to Cuzco by air was already possible. Or, in a more apocaliptic note, if the Inuit and other peoples were wiped by disease let's say, 400 years ago.

OOC:
Your challenge, should you choose to accept it, is to make this setting plausible in any non asb way or form.

 

[Dathi THorfinnsson]

Ahnah dropped her coat in the train cabin and threw herself in the bed-chair. She had a long trip ahead of her and hoped she could catch up with her studies for the Nunatukavut University. However, she didn't fool herself. If she remained alone in the cabin, by the time she'd arrived to Cuzco next week, she would have studied very little and written pages and pages about things that never were but could have been if history had turned out different. For instance, WI airplanes were developed sooner and thus, traveling all the way to Cuzco by air was already possible. Or, in a more apocaliptic note, if the Inuit and other peoples were wiped by disease let's say, 400 years ago.

OOC:
Your challenge, should you choose to accept it, is to make this setting plausible in any non asb way or form.

Rail down the spine of central ameica would be tough, very tough.

And once malaria and yelow fever arrive from the old world, that will make the middle section no fun to pass through, even.

 

[juanml82]

Oh, yes, plenty of workers would die building it. As for diseases, it's not that Central America is a disease no-go zone. Of course, for the sake of loopholes, one could create as one or several sections of the "railway" actually require people and goods to transfer to a ferry to continue that part of the journey through the sea. The ferry, of course, run by the IIRC