[ProtectOurFreedom]

Yes, trade and tourism is SO big between those two bustling end-points that a project like this is sorely needed.

[marktwain]

Yes, trade and tourism is SO big between those two bustling end-points that a project like this is sorely needed.

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Exactly what I was thinking. The cost of such a project, for minuscule benefit, is staggering.

[Fresh Wind]

...said Moscow and 'international partners', including Musk, could build the rail and cargo link in under eight years.

Yeah, right.

[catnipman]

and then there’s the fact that no highway exists for at least a thousand miles from the Alaska terminus ...

[Skwor]

If Russia wants to pay for it fine, otherwise NOPE.

[ansel12]

A tunnel to nowhere.

[Jonty30]

There is no need for this. It’s cool and everything, but there is no need. It’s an engineering feat for the sake of an engineering feat.

Those big cargo ships carry more on each ship than any train that is two miles long could.

[nwrep]

It would actually accelerate and grow trade through that route. It is a great idea to join forces with another great nation. I like it.

[Eccl 10:2]

But it IS perfect for Russia and China and North Korea to send columns of tanks and armored vehicle carriers into a sparsely defended corner of the Western Hemisphere.

Just like a game of Risk come to life!

[Mariner]

“Yes, trade and tourism is SO big between those two bustling end-points that a project like this is sorely needed.”

Direct access via rail to Siberian resources is a very big deal.

[FLT-bird]

The problem is it wouldn’t be practical. Very few Russians or Americans live in Alaska or Kamchatka.