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In 1948, the Esch Cummins act finally finished being constantly revised by the government to this form: 
Consolidation of the railroads into the ATSF finally finished after a halt during World War 2. In this timeline, Francoist Spain replaces Japan, which was a colony of Portugal (Which Spain invaded) in this timeline. Immediately after the consolidation was finished, however, the ATSF took no time in absorbing them into their operations. This paved way to the following events.
The Chicago Palm (Chicago- Louisville- Chattanooga- Atlanta- Jacksonville- Miami)
The Capitol Palm (DC- Charlotte- Savannah- Jacksonville- Miami)
Esch Cummins ActIn 1920, Congress passed the Esch-Cummins Act. This Act (officially called the Transportation Act of 1920) not only returned the railroads back to the private sector from USRA control during WWI, but it also instructed the Interstate Commerce Commission to create a plan to consolidate the railroads of the United States into a limited number of systems to preserve competition between the railroads. That last point is extremely crucial in understanding this. In 1929, the ICC released its initial plan, listing mainly the Class I railroads. All railroads Class II or lower would be merged into the railroad that they had a majority connection with. The plan included the following:
Boston & Maine: Bangor & Aroostook; Delaware & Hudson; Maine Central
New York, New Haven & Hartford: Lehigh & Hudson River; Lehigh & New England; New York, Ontario & Western
New York Central: Chicago, Attica & Southern; Rutland; Virginian
Pennsy
As revised, ICC board member Sam Dickenson (our reality's SD80MACfan ) Gave the following roads to the Southern Railroad System.
Columbus & Greenville; Florida East Coast; Mobile & Ohio; Norfolk Southern; 33% of the Nashville, Chattanooga & St. Louis; Chicago, Indianapolis & Louisville (Chiago- Monon- Louisville line); Tennessee Central (East of Nashville)
Columbus & Greenville; Florida East Coast; Mobile & Ohio; Norfolk Southern; 33% of the Nashville, Chattanooga & St. Louis; Chicago, Indianapolis & Louisville (Chiago- Monon- Louisville line); Tennessee Central (East of Nashville)
Consolidation of the railroads into the ATSF finally finished after a halt during World War 2. In this timeline, Francoist Spain replaces Japan, which was a colony of Portugal (Which Spain invaded) in this timeline. Immediately after the consolidation was finished, however, the ATSF took no time in absorbing them into their operations. This paved way to the following events.
New Lines
After the act's passing phases, the Southern began to have issues with the NC&StL. Traffic was shared among all three southern roads on this line. Which nnoyed all three. The result was that the Tennessee government agreed to help the IC and Southern get their own lines.
Nashville- Memphis: The is line was built so the Southern could reach memphis on its own. It was built so the midpoint was in Jackson, TN. However, the line dipped further south than the NC&StL line, serving Franklin before going to Centreville and then Jackson
Ozone, TN- Chattanooga: This line was built for the sake of a Nashville to Atlanta line. It was quicker to build than the Nashville- Memphis line. Which was not finished until 1956.
New Trains
The Missouri Palm (St. Louis- Louisville- Chattanooga- Atlanta- Jacksonville- Miami)The Chicago Palm (Chicago- Louisville- Chattanooga- Atlanta- Jacksonville- Miami)
The Capitol Palm (DC- Charlotte- Savannah- Jacksonville- Miami)
The Tennesseean (DC- Roanoke- Knoxville- Nashville- Memphis)
The Music Palm (Nashville- Chattanooga- Atlanta- Jacksonville- Miami)
Locomotives
The SOU kept most of its subject's engines under their wing. But of note are the Florida East Coast Mountains.
The SOU saw them as brilliant supplements to the PS-4 pacifics. The result was that all three FEC locomotive classes of 4-8-2 were classified Ts-2 through Ts-4. Also worth noting is that none were sold. Rather, ALCO instead simply used them as the basis for Mountains they built for the Western Pacific (latter MoPac), SSW (later SP), and Mexico. As well as the Florida East coast.
The Norfolk Southern 2-8-4s also inspired a new class of Southern Berkshires for freight. Known as Chattanoogas, the new 2-8-4s were essentially these 2-8-4s with various mods and upgrades.
Looking for a Mario fan comic.
I forget it's title, but I remember it involved Peach stealing a spell book from Kamek's lab. All I remember is that it turns her into an old woman at one point. Does anyone know what I'm talking about?
Alternate History of Anime -Urusei Yatsura
This is a series of casting fiction I made inspired by @Nuclearzeon2, who is a talented fellow, and a major inspiration for lots of my pop culture ideas on alternatehistory.com. Another thing that I've thought of since them was also inspired by that Lupin III casting meme I wrote a while back. I decided to take the same idea I used there, and apply it to some of the animes adapted from Rumiko Takashi's works. I'm starting with her first work, and my favorite, Urusei Yatsura. But of course I made a twist; this is a fictional dub that came out either in the middle of the original Japanese version's run or shortly after it ended - meaning that this dub would be in the late 80s and early 90s. For that reason, lots of the actors here would not be cast today if I was making a dub of UY in the present day. Also for simplicity's sake, I'm only sticking to regular characters in the series, meaning characters from and films or OVAs will likely be detailed later if at all. That is, barring one
Alternate Preserved Steam Engines
Lately, I've been spending most of my time on alternatehistory.com. Which is where I've since developed some ideas for steam engines that did not survive in real life, but would in some of my railroad-themed AH ideas. So I thought I'd go through some of these ideas. Many have locomotives where specific numbers came from @metalheadrailfan. 1) Wabash P-1 Hudson 702: This engine is one I would preserve at Decatur, IL where she was built from a poorly performing Mikado. I had the idea for a fictional shortline running over ex-PRR track from there to Peoria, so she'd often work there in addition to the mainline. I also thought of having her tender replaced with a larger one poached possibly from a NYC Mohawk. 2) New York Central Niagara 6015: In real life, she was the only survivor, so it honestly feels natural. Something like her deserves to be operational, so I was thinking I'd put her in an alternate version of the NYC museum in Elkhart. I'll have more ideas in the coming days.
Stop Eclipse
Simply put. The original layout suits me fine. I can understand where I am and how to do things, and it also can close notifications more easily than I ever can in the Eclipse mode.
Spread with your reasons to oppose eclipse.
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