Beijing to the US by train #outlines / Pechino San Francisco, in treno, passando sotto Bering #ideeMagnifiche

http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/gadgets-and-tech/news/beijing-to-the-us-by-train-china-outlines-plans-to-connect-world-by-high-speed-rail-network-9342749.html

Trains stand in Beijing railway station preparing to set off on the world's longest high-speed rail route which travels 1,425-miles to Guangzhou in the south of the country

http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/may/08/

'China-Russia-Canada-America line' would run for 13,000km across Siberia and pass under Bering Strait through 200km tunnel

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A magnetic-levitation train leaves Shanghai. The proposed US rail line would take two days, with the train travelling at an average of 350km/h. Photograph: Aly Song/Reuters

Crossing the Bering Strait in between Russia and Alaska would require about 200km (125 miles) of undersea tunnel, the paper said, citing Wang Mengshu, a railway expert at the Chinese Academy of Engineering.