Russian High Speed Freight Trains

Call me antique, but if Russia and China does this that means the military on their frontiers must go bye bye. IF that happens then both Nations might be on a path towards something. I think both like hard currency and it will be easy to load trains and have it across asia in ten days land bridge to and from Europe containerized boxes by the thousands that otherwise need 60 days round Cape of Good Hope or Suez via Indonesia to China. etc.

We do the same thing here in the USA with our trains, land bridges west to east but not much east to west. Might have to spin that up to compete ourselves once this gets started. Our rail network is good to 80 mph freight when there is nothing to slow it for the day or night. But building to 150 plus for freight will cause a lot of problems and a bunch of money we don't have.

 

It would have been wonderful to use that Bering Strait bridge to run a load for mountains of money and a month to deliver.

Such a Bridge would need GBU Penetrators, something to burrow into the cement about 20 feet and exploding in a confined space. It will take a number of them. Say 5000 pounders.

That bridge would not have been a good invasion route because you will have to take enough of Alaska by a Air Army times two in a couple weeks fighting in order to be able to use that bridge to run supplies across. By then it is a pretty good bet it will be destroyed.

In 2008 Georgia at the border with Russia has a tunnel that mountain pass at 9000 feet, underneath about 13000 foot peaks. They failed to detonate the tunnel in time allowing a Russian Invasion to pour through. IF they did detonated that thing it would need reboring for god knows how many months to reopen. Leaving two other practical overland invasion routes from Russia to Georgia. It was not much of a contest anyhow, I thin Georgia owned a total of 38 Mobile artillery backed by about 60 older tanks and so on. A couple made a very good heroic show of themselves here and there and the rest was essentially state police, easily run over.

 

Is it a Volvo ? Lol

 

Is it still that funky Soviet Gauge?

 

That is interesting.

Don't the Russians still have miles of the old Soviet gauge? Or have they been converting to standard?

(Only reason I know anything about it is because it's been an engineering trivia question for years. For all I know that whole Soviet gauge thing went away with Stalin.)

 

That looks like a Bombardier train design,or maybe a Russian design produced under license.