RE: [DL] South o' the Border

["Jeffery Yates" <jyates@qlinktech.com>]

But large scale projects that fail can be lots of fun (and PC misery!) as a
campaign -- or at least campaign backdrop.  Or maybe the French don't fail
the first time... MS can build steam powered bulldozers in Deadlands.  All
the problems the real-life canal builders had (for the 1900's builders)
compounded by the Reckoners...

If you (Joel) do write anything up, please float it by the list.  It sounds
interesting.

Jeff Y.
Marshal for the Dynamite Gang


> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-deadlands@gamerz.net [mailto:owner-deadlands@gamerz.net]On
> Behalf Of Heivilin, Jim
> Sent: Monday, February 19, 2001 12:21 PM
> To: 'deadlands@gamerz.net'
> Subject: RE: [DL] South o' the Border
>
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Ashman, Joel [mailto:jea2@c-cor.com]
> > Subject: [DL] South o' the Border
> >
> > For anyone who has the SotB sourcebook...
> >
> > Is there any discussion about the Panama Canal?  By the late
> > 1870's, France was engaged in contruction of a canal through
> > the Columbian isthmus, what is now Panama.
> >
> > I wanted to know if any of this made it in to the WW.  If is
> > did, I'll pick up SotB.
> >
> We didn't begin the current canal until 1903 (completed in 1914).  The
> French efforts ultimately failed.
>
> http://www.pananet.com/pancanal/public/history/history1.htm
> http://www.maui.com/~twright/panama/pan004a.htm
> http://www.sinfo.net/pcmuseum/history.html
>
> Jim