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Tuesday January 1, 1929
The first two brand new locomotives of the Class T1 ‘Selkirk’ type arrived in Yokohama harbor today. A total of 10 of these locomotives (numbers 5920-5929) will be built by the Montreal Locomotive Works from Canada. These locomotives will be used to pull passenger trains through Japan.
There are ambitious plans to connect all four of the main islands of the Empire (Hokkaido, Honshu, Kyushu and Shikoku) with the railway, something that will probably be done with tunnels. There is an even more ambitious plan to make a railroad connection between Kyoto and Hyderabad using a tunnel between Japan and Chosen. Most likely, such a tunnel would start at Karatsu, Japan and end at Pusan, Chosen and will run via the islands Iki and Tsushima.
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Selkirk No 5915 of the Canadian Pacific Railway. Japan has ordered 10 of this type of locomotive.
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October 23, 1926
Today 5 years after General Ordinance made the jump into the railway buisiness a new branch division has been created. G.O.L.D. or General Ordnance Locomotive Division began producing its first locomotives after the purchace of Railways and Locomotive shops in Favonus (Vulcan Ironworks, Euklid Railway) and Acestus (Western Rail & Locomotive works ).
The "GOLD" branch of General Ordnance now includes....
Atlantian National Railways
Atlas Steel company (locomotive shop in Cleito)
Falco Manufacturing Company (locomotive shop in Eridanus)
Phelleus northern railway
C&E railroad (Cleito and Eridanus)
Montreal locomotive Works (purchaced from ALCO in 1921)
Vulcan Ironworks
Euklid Railway
Western Rail & Locomotive works
General Ordnance is also working out details on a deal with the Atlantian government to purchace Atlantian National Railways, making it the first government owned railway. Its rumored that the Montreal Locomotive Works is also up for sale to the Canadian company of Canadian Pacific Railways while the Phelleus and newly aquired Euklid railways are expected to merger effectively linking the northern railways under one banner.
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Nice news post Walter, allthough I suspect mono-wing planes are a tad bit early at this time but nice touch none the less.
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Thanks for the economic boost!
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As for the Selkirk she is very nice looking, my knowledge on Steam engines is limited but the diesel age is just begining in the late 20's.
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That comes out to around $10 Billion in 1929, $100 Billion today.
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That's if the technology to build such a tunnel even exists in 1929.
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And I was worried that the Mexican Canal was over the top!
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Ambitious seems to understate the plan, in 1929.
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A more likely result would be the railway setting up a steamship line to transprt passengers to and from Japan/Chosen.
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