alternatehistory.com

The Trans-Siberian Railroad was one of the most laughably mismanaged construction projects of the industrial age.

most of the railroad was build with cheap steel, not suitable for Siberian temperatures, derailments were extremely common (actually the original project manager and chief corner-cutting financier for the railroad died in one the derailments) and at most the locomotives on the track could travel at 15 mph meaning a cross country trip would take weeks.

*****

That being said, what if the Trans was an even greater fuckup than it originally was, to point were the entire project collapsed and was abandoned before it was completed in 1916.

What could cause it, and what would be the effects of 0 trans-siberian railroad on the Russian Civil War and possibly WW2?
Top