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An Intercontinental Railway

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10 April 2023, 09:06 AM
wtg
An Intercontinental Railway
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InterContinental Railway: All aboard the train from New York to Paris — via Siberia

Dig a 70-mile tunnel under the Bering Strait, and you get this amazing InterContinental Railway, which will reshape the world.

Snowpiercer is fiction, and so is this other globe-spanning train. But the plans for it are serious. The ICR would connect Eurasia to the New World, via a 70-mile Bering Strait Tunnel. Will it ever happen? Only if we get the geopolitics, financing, and engineering right.


https://bigthink.com/strange-m...continental-railway/


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10 April 2023, 09:38 AM
CHAS
Why am I not excited?


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11 April 2023, 09:12 AM
big al
Why, indeed?

My first thought on hearing of this proposal was "What are they going to connect?"

That 5,500 miles of railroad line through some very difficult terrain, needed to connect the tunnel to the existing rail networks of Asia and North America, is probably a much bigger challenge than the tunnel itself.

Big Al


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