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  1. Unbuilt Canada

    Obviously inspired by Unbuilt Britain, a thread for unbuilt "stuff" in Canada, post-1900. To get things started: The Georgian Bay Ship Canal would in essence have created a shipping route up the Ottawa Valley direct into the upper lakes. Scale of the project and finances aside, wow that really...

  2. African Dominions

    So I know this has somewhat been beaten to death, but I haven't seen a single thread trying to role it all together and quite emphatically not emphasize Rhodesia... What thoughts to folks have as to the potential for African Dominions in a timeline which includes more or less our Second Boer...

  3. Simple No Amtrak TL

    The more I've thought about American railroading the more it's seemed to me like the two pieces that really made things as bad as they got, highways aside and/or actual nationalization aside, were how late freight was deregulated and the complete disincentivization the Class 1s had in passenger...

  4. 747 Trijet

    I've had the 747 Trijet on my mind the past few days, and have been kind of surprised to realize that I think it would have been a success despite the validity of all the factors that caused it's cancellation (if one even wants to call it a cancelled project given the actual level of...

  5. 19th Century AIDS

    So acknowledging that there are what seem to be early cases and the virus was quite possibly somewhat global as early as the 60s... How bad could an AIDS pandemic in the mid to late 19th century have been? With an earlier jump to humans it doesn't seem a huge stretch for an outbreak to reach a...

  6. Canadian Northern Railway & Vancouver

    I'm working through my thoughts on making the Canadian Railways work again and am wondering if anyone has ever seen something with any kind of details on the Canadian Northern plans for a tunnel entering Vancouver? It was fairly preliminary when they signed the agreements, but I've never even...

  7. WI: Canadian Minitel

    Anybody have thoughts on the potential for Minitel launching in Canada at some point pre-internet? I was looking over a thread about whether Sears might have been able to break into the online market and one of the unfortunate issues is that they had basically pulled out of catalog sales JUST...

  8. Canadian Northern/Canadian Pacific Merger Musings

    So in going through what I want to do with Vancouver in a couple things I'm working on I've come across quite a bit of material suggesting that the Canadian Northern really had a decent amount of potential, in a way that the Grand Trunk Pacific/National Transcontinental system really didn't...

  9. Fourth Olympic Class Without WWI?

    Exactly as the title says... Acknowledging that nothing was really discussed, what sort of direction would White Star Line be likely to go were Britannic to enter service as intended? Presumably Aquitania would force them to build a third first rate express liner, but what do folks verses in...

  10. Transport Canada

    So this has been in the works forever and I'm still not perfectly happy with it, but if I don't post it soon it's just never going to happen. More or less inspired by the now ancient Transport America TL I've taken a much earlier POD with the idea of doing the same for urban transit in Canada...

  11. Boeing WITHOUT the SST Project?

    I was looking over the Lockheed L-2000 project tonight and it got me thinking about what might have happened had it gone further. Does anyone have some insight into what might have happened with Boeing, especially around the 747, were Lockheed selected for the SST? Ignoring whether this is...

  12. WI: Insular Cases go other way

    So in short, what kind of effects are we looking at if the broad outcome of the Insular Cases is reversed, and full constitutional rights immediately follow American control of territory?

  13. No 1949 Housing Act

    Just wondering if anyone has taken a decent look at the impacts of eliminating the 1949 Housing Act? It seems to take a lot of the blame for both facilitating sprawl and white flight while also building much of the worst inner city public housing. Interesting TLs could reasonably alter this in...

  14. Earliest railroad electrification

    I'm basically wondering if there are any major impediments to significantly earlier railroad electrification? Sprague's motor does seem to be the first that could realistically be used, but I'm not clear on whether there is any particular reason what he did couldn't be pushed back at least to...

  15. Military Technological Impact of Early WWI

    I'm thinking in terms of a contintal generalized war in the vicinity of 1900, give or take a few years. Off hand it reduces the number of armiured cars and trucks quite severely, probably removes tanks from the picture and almost certainly reduces aviation to the odd experiment, but I don't...

  16. WI GI Bill

    So I recently finished Alan Allport's book about the British demobilization following WWII and one of his closing thoughts is a lament to how little was done in terms of creating opportunities for veterans in comparison to the GI bill. Ignoring for a moment how to make this happen politically...

  17. WI: No Buchanan nomination in 55

    I'm piecing together bits of a timeline mostly about the Oregon Terriorty and a significantly altered Oregon Treaty, but one of the butterflies this is seeming to create is a real possibility the James Buchanan might not be in any position to run in 1856. Assuming his nomination off the table I...

  18. Elizabeth Killed in a Comet, and a Young King Charles

    Looking at the dates of the two Comet disasters they match up reasonably well with a state visit by Queen Elizabeth to New Zealand and Australia. While the Comets never actually made it to Australia it wouldn't be too much of stretch for them to make this sort of trip in a VIP configuration...

  19. AHC: Anglo/Indian Union

    It's been brought up ad infinitum that any real union of Britain with an Indian colony would have to amount to India swallowing Great Britain, but I don't recall that ever being explored in any serious way. Combine that with a fairly vague idea of Anglo/Indian relations before the 20th century...

  20. Earliest Feasible European WWIII

    How early could a Third World War realistically break out in Europe? I'm thinking that in 1945 there really isn't anyone willing to fight a war to it's conclusion (skirmishes could break out I grant, but I can't imagine much more than a few days of fighting followed by status quo, possibly with...
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