They Re Building A 4 400 Mile Railway From Moscow To Beijing

Media Platforms Design TeamGetty ImagesChina is no stranger to mind-bogglingly big construction projects, so why not build a railroad across the length of Asia? On Thursday the Chinese government confirmed its plan to build a 7,000-kilometer (4,350 mile) high-speed rail line to connect Beijing to Moscow.View full post on TwitterThe route would run through Kazakhstan and cost an estimated 1.5 trillion yuan, or $242 billion. It would cut the trip between the two capitals from five days, the fastest current train trip, to just two. Alexander Misharin of state-owned OAO Russian Railways says the line would take eight to ten years to build.Meanwhile, the United States can barely get started on a rail line from Los Angeles to San Francisco.Source: Bloomberg, via Sputnik News.Andrew MosemanSite DirectorAndrew’s from Nebraska. His work has also appeared in Discover, The Awl, Scientific American, Mental Floss, Playboy, and elsewhere. He lives in Brooklyn with two cats and a snake.