The Trans-Siberian Railway is a steel belt that binds two continents. Its nearly 6,000 miles of track link Moscow to Vladivostok; connecting lines run across Europe and down Asia's eastern edge. For more than a century, the Trans-Siberian has attracted travelers who want to journey through some of the world's most remote, and sometimes beautiful, territory: the Ural Mountains, the shores of Lake Baikal, the stunning isolation of the Russian steppe. But when it was completed in 1904, the Trans-Siberian Railway was the stuff of imperial dreams and geopolitical nightmares.
- From The Eurasian Century: Hot Wars, Cold Wars, and the Making of the Modern World by Hal Brands
[Just arrived last night: It looks very good.]
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