I am not that knowledgable on either railroads or building them. Sadly they are probably quite important to my timeline I am working on. I was therefore wondering if anyone had thoughts on how hard it would be to build several railroads into Burma in say 1942/3 with American help.
In my view one of the challenges facing both Japan and Britain in that period was logistics in Burma, we know Japan struggled and Britain partly overcame it with air supply. I wondered if an alternative is more railways, with a view to building or improving existing infrastructure from Calcutta to at least Ledo and Rangoon in the space of a year. The idea is to be able to ship overland from Bombay, and support a more significant army than we saw in the history books.
In my view one of the challenges facing both Japan and Britain in that period was logistics in Burma, we know Japan struggled and Britain partly overcame it with air supply. I wondered if an alternative is more railways, with a view to building or improving existing infrastructure from Calcutta to at least Ledo and Rangoon in the space of a year. The idea is to be able to ship overland from Bombay, and support a more significant army than we saw in the history books.