09-05-2014, 10:46 AM
What a dream... Rail service seems the preferred mass transport vehicle, over other means... Mr. Buffett is right, the prospect of rail service is promising...
Chinese experts ‘in discussions’ over building high-speed Beijing-US railway
BEIJING — China is considering plans to build a high-speed railway line to the United States, the country’s official media reported yesterday (May 8).
The proposed line would begin in north-east China and run up through Siberia, pass through a tunnel underneath the Pacific Ocean then cut through Alaska and Canada to reach the continental US, according to a report in the state-run Beijing Times newspaper.
Crossing the Bering Strait in between Russia and Alaska would require about 200km of undersea tunnel, the paper said, citing Mr Wang Mengshu, a railway expert at the Chinese Academy of Engineering.
“Right now we’re already in discussions. Russia has already been thinking about this for many years,” Mr Wang said.
The project — nicknamed the “China-Russia plus America line” — would run for 13,000km, about 3,000km further than the Trans-Siberian Railway. The entire trip would take two days, with the train travelling at an average of 350km/h.
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http://www.todayonline.com/chinaindia/ch...us-railway
Chinese experts ‘in discussions’ over building high-speed Beijing-US railway
BEIJING — China is considering plans to build a high-speed railway line to the United States, the country’s official media reported yesterday (May 8).
The proposed line would begin in north-east China and run up through Siberia, pass through a tunnel underneath the Pacific Ocean then cut through Alaska and Canada to reach the continental US, according to a report in the state-run Beijing Times newspaper.
Crossing the Bering Strait in between Russia and Alaska would require about 200km of undersea tunnel, the paper said, citing Mr Wang Mengshu, a railway expert at the Chinese Academy of Engineering.
“Right now we’re already in discussions. Russia has already been thinking about this for many years,” Mr Wang said.
The project — nicknamed the “China-Russia plus America line” — would run for 13,000km, about 3,000km further than the Trans-Siberian Railway. The entire trip would take two days, with the train travelling at an average of 350km/h.
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http://www.todayonline.com/chinaindia/ch...us-railway
