What if… …Yamamoto had sent a third wave to Pearl Harbor? …Stonewall Jackson had not been killed? …Czar Nicholas had been a real mensch? …Richard Nixon had hired a professional television make-up expert? These types of questions are the basis for historians who have employed a lively approach to the topics. There is a second tier of far less serious historical conjecture. What if… …Napoleon had RPGs at Waterloo? …the 7th Cavalry had three Browning Automatic Rifles at Little Big Horn? …gangsters of the 1920s and 1930s settled disputes by slapping one another until the loser cried? Finally, you have my question. It is a combination of the first two types and leads me to ask: Had the Third Reich triumphed in World War II, how would Lionel train catalogues have been affected? I believe the answer is obvious.
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