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Said Simon Fraiser at his discovery of Hell's Gate, a particularly nasty area on what eventually became the Canada Pacific railway. About a century and a half later William van Horn, president of the Canada Pacific railway, said "If we can't export the scenery we'll import the tourists."
This does not strike me as a happy solution if Fraiser was right.
The tourist nature of the railway opens things to a wide variety of PCs, the Victorian/gaslight level of technology prevents communication with the outside world when the train breaks down and is engulfed in a blizzard at the worst possible place. Isolated but with some makeshift supplies, the tourists face days or weeks in the places where no human should venture, waiting for aid to come from the railway company... when the first child goes missing.
This does not strike me as a happy solution if Fraiser was right.
The tourist nature of the railway opens things to a wide variety of PCs, the Victorian/gaslight level of technology prevents communication with the outside world when the train breaks down and is engulfed in a blizzard at the worst possible place. Isolated but with some makeshift supplies, the tourists face days or weeks in the places where no human should venture, waiting for aid to come from the railway company... when the first child goes missing.
