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To take full advantage of a trans-Bering railway, you'll need new trunk lines--Trans-Siberian is too long, circum-Arctic railway when???pic.twitter.com/O1grU7WmMr
Russia knows this--check that northern trunk line proposal!pic.twitter.com/o1oPDsSaSx
Very rough sketch of corridor I'm thinking of...8000 miles long. Quebec to Arkhangelsk. 26h 40m at avg 300mph (maglev, current tech speed)pic.twitter.com/m6JTAlCkcc
The idea would be to have various lines branching off of this trunk line, connecting to actually inhabited parts of the world
Many, many problems w the idea: - Unimaginably expensive - Very difficult terrain (permafrost!) - Tremendous electricity demand - Politics
To say nothing of the questionable utility of it. So, this isn't me saying "we should do this!" but rather "if we DID do this..."
what would it even be for? too long/slow for passenger. hard to compete with ocean freight on price.
It would be for passenger--overnight travel between Eurasia and Americas, competes w airlines in price and comfort but not time
I don't have figures on a line-by-line basis...but they do offer overnight services on several corridors, and are adding more in future
Network ridership is about 1.5 billion per year, but that's definitely mostly short-range trips
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