It's your timeline. If you can't think of the first post, plan the next decade
Railroad thread
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It's your timeline. If you can't think of the first post, plan the next decade
@Andrew Boyd
Amtrak has offered long distance routes to be bid on, but no private company have bitten to take over.
Amtrak has offered long distance routes to be bid on, but no private company have bitten to take over.
1941-1945
- The Railroad are flogged to their limits during this era. Vital time and resources prevent locomotive development. So various Locomotive builders revise designs for engines to create others.
- Lima has another idea and created the Lima Standards.
1945-1950
- Railroads are paid in kind for their help with subsidized improvements and rolling back the ICC.
- The Railroad are flogged to their limits during this era. Vital time and resources prevent locomotive development. So various Locomotive builders revise designs for engines to create others.
- Lima has another idea and created the Lima Standards.
1945-1950
- Railroads are paid in kind for their help with subsidized improvements and rolling back the ICC.
When do you think would be a good time for my TL's Erie Lackawanna merger?
I ask since among things I can see the Erie 2-6-6-4 being built after all ITTL. Not to mention DL&W 4-8-4 designs on expresses across the Midwest.
I ask since among things I can see the Erie 2-6-6-4 being built after all ITTL. Not to mention DL&W 4-8-4 designs on expresses across the Midwest.
I already have some ideas for what to do in 1918-1929. Further help would be nice.
Maybe a Depression-era merger? That way, you'll have more time to play with steam
SsgtC
Banned
I would be extremely careful using that. That post is nearly identical to the opening post of Laughing Place: Redefining Disney. You could be accused of plagerism. See below:
Yeah, @Andrew Boyd, I appreciate the work you're doing but that passage is way to close to my own. Change it up some, please.
Kinda? I mean, it's certainly less similar, but the general idea is still the exact same: Walt Disney quits smoking because he's hungry. Can't you find another, more original way to make him quit smoking?
I actually did think of an idea where he quits after learning what caused his mother's death. The trouble is I was not sure how much longer he'd live than OTL if it happened then.
You could have a similar tragedy occur earlier, and kill off either his father, mother, or beloved sister, Ruth. Roy dying would probably cause too many butterflies. To make it extra sad (and a bit more plausible, considering falling asleep in a room with a broken, gas-leaking radiator is a bit random), have a cigarette (or even his cigarette) fail to be put out and accidentally spark a fire that kills a family member.
Thank you for the offer. Though I do also like my idea of it happening after Flora Call dies. Because if I don't have him not try like @OldNavy1988 did, I felt his mom's death would also be a plausible reason.
Back to railroads:
The Southern
- This railroad buys a small fleet of Garratts for use in the Rathole Division. Despite their fuel and water capacities, they are good machines when hooked up with a special water car.
- On flatter terrain, Southern orders some 4-8-4s and 2-8-4s from Lima for fast passenger and freight respectively.
- Later on in the 1940s, Southern starts to electrify the Rathole. Soon after, the line through Georgia to Jacksonville follows.
- Southern preserves Ps-4 #1398 at Charlotte. This eventually leads to her being the star of Southern's steam program.
- Southern works with other Southeast roads, several businesses, and other to create Amtrak Southeast in the 1980s.
The Southern
- This railroad buys a small fleet of Garratts for use in the Rathole Division. Despite their fuel and water capacities, they are good machines when hooked up with a special water car.
- On flatter terrain, Southern orders some 4-8-4s and 2-8-4s from Lima for fast passenger and freight respectively.
- Later on in the 1940s, Southern starts to electrify the Rathole. Soon after, the line through Georgia to Jacksonville follows.
- Southern preserves Ps-4 #1398 at Charlotte. This eventually leads to her being the star of Southern's steam program.
- Southern works with other Southeast roads, several businesses, and other to create Amtrak Southeast in the 1980s.
SsgtC
Banned
Having to hook to a tender anyway is exactly why they won't do this. You're getting the bad aspects of everything. Plus, no one in the US built Garratts. I know you really want to see Garratts in the US, but they make no sense for American railroads.
I have to agree with @SsgtC on this one. I had to do some research on Garratts they dont suit mainline us railroads at all. If you have to have them in the us maybe a shortline ends up with one via insert hand wave of god here. Or as an industrial yard engine somewhere.
Southern Pacific
- The SP builds from Los angeles to San Diego via Long Beach and Oceanside.
- Electrification is introduced to the Sierra Nevada lines first. Then elsewhere in California.
- The Trona Railway, which extended to Las Vegas in the 1920s, is bought by SP in the late 40s.
- The effects of electricity leaves a surplus of steam engines. Which allows more SP locos to be preserved due to the sheer number lying in scrapyards making them difficult to all cut up.
- SP introduces California state passenger services. Evolving into California HSR.
- The SP builds from Los angeles to San Diego via Long Beach and Oceanside.
- Electrification is introduced to the Sierra Nevada lines first. Then elsewhere in California.
- The Trona Railway, which extended to Las Vegas in the 1920s, is bought by SP in the late 40s.
- The effects of electricity leaves a surplus of steam engines. Which allows more SP locos to be preserved due to the sheer number lying in scrapyards making them difficult to all cut up.
- SP introduces California state passenger services. Evolving into California HSR.
Well, ALCO did have the contract to build a garratt. So maybe have the garratt on a logging line?