Intercontinental Rail

>>1046963
Bump

>>1046963
Lacks a common gauge and has to pass through a bunch of countries with a million different trade laws.

>>1047128
It should be possible to construct a standard gauge connection between China and Iran.

Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan and Russia have a customs union

>>1047142
So it still has to go through a bare minimum of 3 different trade zones.

>>1046963

Cargo FGT shinkansen or GTFO

>>1047357
How about you connect Hokkaido with Sakhalin and Sakhalin with the the TransSib?

>>1046963
so is africa missing or dismantled for the raw materials to build a space elevator?

>>1047522
africa is a fiction made to solicit donations from the pitiful

>>1047522
I'm more concerned about Korea.

>>1046963
There're no plan in upgrading Urumqi-Alataw section to high speed line by 2025...Nor the one from Fuzhou to Taiwan...

>>1046963
>2025: 2 days by rail from London to Beijing

Wait, what have I missed?

>>1046963
Actually, being a train driver on one of those lines would be pretty boring. Airline pilots travel around but passenger train operators work the same section of track back and forth and back and forth. I guess that after a while you would know most of the camels and goats on your route by name.

>>1047367
I think Japan is still butthurt about Sakhalin, so that won't be happening.

>>1047782
Nope, although they still maintain the position that Southern Sakhalin should be a land woth undetermined sovereign, they have opened consulate in Yuzhno Salhalin and also cooperate with various local government entity there on various aspect for quite a while.

>>1047768
At least better than subway driver

This would be so impossible. The train would run through so many animals and shit every day the front would be covered in blood and shit. Not to mention all the different laws and how crazy it would be to police something like this.