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Night Trains: Trans-Siberian Railway, Sleeping Car, Empire Builder, Orient Express, Silver Meteor, Lake Shore Limited, Auto Train
Paperback. Books LLC 2010-09-15.
ISBN 9781155634043
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Chapters: Trans-Siberian Railway, Sleeping Car, Empire Builder, Orient Express, Silver Meteor, Lake Shore Limited, Auto Train, Caledonian Sleeper, Night Riviera, Db Autozug Gmbh, Capitol Limited, Nightstar, Cardinal, Night Ferry, le Train Bleu, Citynightline, Sibirjak, Silver Star, Euronight, Sleeper Either Class, Ak-Sar-Ben Zephyr, Nord Express, Db Nachtzug, Red Arrow, Donau-Kurier, Sud Express, Aurora, Tikhiy Don, Nsb Night Train, Berliner. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 215. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: The Trans-Siberian Railway or Trans-Siberian Railroad ( , in Russian, or Transsibirskaya magistral', Transsib) is a network of railways connecting Moscow and European Russia with the Russian Far East provinces, Mongolia, China and the Sea of Japan. It is the longest railway in the world. Today, the railway is part of the Eurasian Land Bridge. The plans and funding for construction of the Trans-Siberian Railway to connect the capital, Moscow, with the Pacific Ocean port of Vladivostok were approved by Czar Alexander II in St. Petersburg. His son, Czar Alexander III supervised the construction; the Tsar appointed Sergei Witte Director of Railway Affairs in 1889. The Imperial State Budget spent 1.455 billion rubles from 1891 to 1913 on the railway's construction, an expenditure record which was surpassed only by the military budget in World War I. In March 1891, the future Tsar Nicholas II personally opened and blessed the construction of the Far East segment of the Trans-Siberian Railway during his stop at Vladivostok, after visiting Japan at the end of his journey around the world. Nicholas II made notes in his diary about his anticipation of travelling in the comfort of The Czar's Train across the unspoiled wilderness of Siberia. The Tsar's Train was designed and built in St...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=56912
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