Creating a totally ficticious route - The Central Pacific Southern & Mexico
This is an idea I've had bouncing around for some time, which I'd like to bring to fruition, but I've no idea how to start doing this.
In the 1875 novel "The Way We Live Now" by Anthony Trollop one of the main plot features is a scam built around a fictional railway that runs from Salt Lake City (United States) to Vera Cruz (Mexico) via Mexico City, for fun I decided to look at the map of the northern portion from Salt Lake City to the Grand Canyon and found what looks to be a geographically viable route (Using Google Maps) to Lee's Ferry, the only crossing point of the Colorado River.
I also sketched out three possible routes to the Mexican border from that point (Both maps are below) which conform (more or less) to this description:
Anthony Trollope, "The Way We Live Now", 1875
One change I have made is to the name, I think 'Central Pacific Southern & Mexico' reads better than Trollope's version so that's what I'm using for this little project.
CPSMRR_Utah_to_Arizona.jpgCPSMRR_Alternate_Routes_to_Juarez.jpg
As I said at the start of this post I'm not sure where to begin beyond this point, so any help, advice will be very greatfully accepted.
In the 1875 novel "The Way We Live Now" by Anthony Trollop one of the main plot features is a scam built around a fictional railway that runs from Salt Lake City (United States) to Vera Cruz (Mexico) via Mexico City, for fun I decided to look at the map of the northern portion from Salt Lake City to the Grand Canyon and found what looks to be a geographically viable route (Using Google Maps) to Lee's Ferry, the only crossing point of the Colorado River.
I also sketched out three possible routes to the Mexican border from that point (Both maps are below) which conform (more or less) to this description:
The scheme in question was the grand proposal for a South Central Pacific and Mexican railway, which was to run from the Salt Lake City, thus branching off from the San Francisco and Chicago line,—and pass down through the fertile lands of New Mexico and Arizona, into the territory of the Mexican Republic, run by the city of Mexico, and come out on the gulf at the port of Vera Cruz. Mr. Fisker admitted at once that it was a great undertaking, acknowledged that the distance might be perhaps something over 2,000 miles...
One change I have made is to the name, I think 'Central Pacific Southern & Mexico' reads better than Trollope's version so that's what I'm using for this little project.
CPSMRR_Utah_to_Arizona.jpgCPSMRR_Alternate_Routes_to_Juarez.jpg
As I said at the start of this post I'm not sure where to begin beyond this point, so any help, advice will be very greatfully accepted.
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