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Russia to Alaska by Train?

by Neil Woodburn (RSS feed) on Apr 20th 2007 at 12:30PM

Plans have just been announced to build a tunnel underneath the Bering Strait and connect Russia with the United States. Although a final go-ahead has yet to be issued, proponents of the plan estimate that the project would cost up to $12 billion and take 15 years to complete.

Others are calling it a pipe dream. The Bering Strait is hardly the friendliest of environments to be building what would be the world's longest tunnel at 100 kilometers long. And then, there is the extra $55 billion that would be required to connect local rail lines to both ends of the tunnel.

But if it does happen, one could travel by rail from London to New York heading east. Wow. That would be very cool!

Filed under: Russian Federation, United States

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