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Well, you can already do something like that, just a little slower (which gives you more time to appreciate the landscape changing): http://en.wikipedia.org/wi

Well, you can already do something like that, just a little slower (which gives you more time to appreciate the landscape changing): http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trans-Siberian_Railway http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trans-Siberian_Railway It essentially connects Vladivostok with Europe, going through countries like North Korea and China, making the railway even larger than the railway proposed in this article.

chrisb 17y ago
"going through countries like North Korea..." Your geography and politics are slightly incorrect :)
- stingraycharles 17y ago
  Hmmm, now I might be completely ignorant, but care to explain why? As far as I understood, the train splits in China with a connection to Pyongyang.
  - mseebach 17y ago
    The Trans-Siberian railway goes across Siberia, north of China and Mongolia, and is entirely in Russia. A popular variation, though, is the route that branches through Mongolia and terminates in Beijing. This route also connects to Pyongyang, but that's not the TSRW. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Map_Trans-Siberian_railway.png http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Map_Trans-Siberian_railway... EDIT - wikipedia says it better than I: The Trans-Siberian Railway is often associated with the main transcontinental Russian train that connects hundreds of large and small cities of the European and Asian parts of Russia. At 9,259 kilometres (5,753 miles),[1] spanning a record 7 time zones and taking eight days to complete the journey, it is the third-longest single continuous service in the world, after the Moscow–Pyongyang (10,267 km, 6,380 mi)[2] and the Kiev–Vladivostok (11,085 km, 6,888 mi)[3] services, both of which also follow the Trans-Siberian for much of their routes. The route was opened by Tsarevich Nicholas Alexandrovitch of Russia after his eastern journey ended.
    - jbm 17y ago
      Reminds me of this article I read a while back. http://vienna-pyongyang.blogspot.com/ http://vienna-pyongyang.blogspot.com/ Someone actually did the Moscow-Pyongyang trip. I have no idea how they bought the tickets though.
ZeroGravitas 17y ago
You can do it virtually via Google: http://www.google.ru/intl/ru/landing/transsib/en.html http://www.google.ru/intl/ru/landing/transsib/en.html
- jacquesm 17y ago
  We have more senses than just our eyes, but I can see how this would appeal to people that are constrained in time and funds. But it seems like it is no substitute for the real thing. An item for the 'bucket list'.

chrisb 17y ago

"going through countries like North Korea..." Your geography and politics are slightly incorrect :)

stingraycharles 17y ago
Hmmm, now I might be completely ignorant, but care to explain why? As far as I understood, the train splits in China with a connection to Pyongyang.
- mseebach 17y ago
  The Trans-Siberian railway goes across Siberia, north of China and Mongolia, and is entirely in Russia. A popular variation, though, is the route that branches through Mongolia and terminates in Beijing. This route also connects to Pyongyang, but that's not the TSRW. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Map_Trans-Siberian_railway.png http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Map_Trans-Siberian_railway... EDIT - wikipedia says it better than I: The Trans-Siberian Railway is often associated with the main transcontinental Russian train that connects hundreds of large and small cities of the European and Asian parts of Russia. At 9,259 kilometres (5,753 miles),[1] spanning a record 7 time zones and taking eight days to complete the journey, it is the third-longest single continuous service in the world, after the Moscow–Pyongyang (10,267 km, 6,380 mi)[2] and the Kiev–Vladivostok (11,085 km, 6,888 mi)[3] services, both of which also follow the Trans-Siberian for much of their routes. The route was opened by Tsarevich Nicholas Alexandrovitch of Russia after his eastern journey ended.
  - jbm 17y ago
    Reminds me of this article I read a while back. http://vienna-pyongyang.blogspot.com/ http://vienna-pyongyang.blogspot.com/ Someone actually did the Moscow-Pyongyang trip. I have no idea how they bought the tickets though.

ZeroGravitas 17y ago

You can do it virtually via Google: http://www.google.ru/intl/ru/landing/transsib/en.html http://www.google.ru/intl/ru/landing/transsib/en.html

jacquesm 17y ago
We have more senses than just our eyes, but I can see how this would appeal to people that are constrained in time and funds. But it seems like it is no substitute for the real thing. An item for the 'bucket list'.