Russia Is Building A New High Speed Train That Will Travel From Moscow To Beijing In Just 48 Hours

BI ^ | 1-4-2015 | Stefano Pozzebon

[I-ambush]

Russian reliability, high speeds...what could go wrong?

[bunkerhill7]

Russia Is Building A New High Speed Train That Will Travel From Moscow To Beijing In Just 48 Hours Taking Russians in n Out but NO CHINESE CAN GET OUT OF CHINA with a ONE-WAY TICKET ON THAT TRAIN TO MOSCOW>

there fixed it

[Secret Agent Man]

you ever flown aeroflot?

[jughandle]

Impressive I guess, but is there actually a market for it?

[FreeReign]

you ever flown aeroflot?

No. Can you imagine riding Russian high speed rail for 5K miles?

[Secret Agent Man]

sino-russian rail for 5000 miles. and hell no.

i think people will be begging for the thing to go off the tracks.

[ozzymandus]

Throw in corruption and alcoholism, and you’ve got a deal.

[VerySadAmerican]

I assume China would have to build some of it.

[mass55th]

"Where is the money for this and why would anyone travel between the two cities—for Chinese food and vodka?"

Especially Chinese food using the other white meat...cat.

[BitWielder1]

Don't they have airplanes?

[BobL]

I wonder what the Russia-hating liberals will say now...Russia is EMBRACING high-speed rail.

This should get their heads spinning.

[driftdiver]

Keep in mind that in Russia the advertised speed will be 300kph. The actual speed will probably be around 50kph.

[Two Kids' Dad]

Because airplanes can’t fly between those cities. Trains are the only option. 48 hours... no thanks.

[Fiji Hill]

Now, for a musical interlude:

Moscow-Peking--The All-Union Radio Choir (1950)

[jmacusa]

Oh yeah. This is going to work. Drunken Russian train engineers operating a high speed train all the way to China. “Hey Yuri, don’t crash train! Vat are kiddink me? “Is good job!’’

[wideawake]

Yes, I'm sure this will be built, and built very soon - right after they complete the South Stream pipeline.

Can a rail link from Moscow to Cuba be far behind?

[jmacusa]

And lots of vodka.

[Pearls Before Swine]

Wow, what a fantastic trip that would be to take. At least, the daylight part.

[wideawake]

Surely plenty of people would much rather spend two days on a train instead of eight hours on a jet - it’s particularly desirable for business travelers: who wouldn’t want to have one day of meetings and four days of transit?

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