The closest railway to my knowledge on the west of the bering straight is the BAM. It seems not finished yet (the last shortcut tunnel is to be build), and isn't profitable. A link to Japan looks like a way to make it sustainable.
And think a bit about what it took to build the BAM: thousands of prisoners, and more than thirty years. The costs of maintain nd repair are enormous, and it is not really operationnal.
As far as I can tell, they stop below 190K, as well as most things do, even gulag: the steel breaks! And the BAM lays in the frendlier part fo Siberia.
If they want to build it, they'll have to face the same difficulties: temperatures below 190K (-40C), rugged terrain, permafrost... Plan 50 years to build the railway TO the bering strait. I guess no democratic nation could ever complete such a project. It costs too much money, lasts for much too long for politicals to be interessed, and there are no gulag workers...
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The closest railway to my knowledge on the west of the bering straight is the BAM. It seems not finished yet (the last shortcut tunnel is to be build), and isn't profitable. A link to Japan looks like a way to make it sustainable.
And think a bit about what it took to build the BAM: thousands of prisoners, and more than thirty years. The costs of maintain nd repair are enormous, and it is not really operationnal.
As far as I can tell, they stop below 190K, as well as most things do, even gulag: the steel breaks! And the BAM lays in the frendlier part fo Siberia.
If they want to build it, they'll have to face the same difficulties: temperatures below 190K (-40C), rugged terrain, permafrost... Plan 50 years to build the railway TO the bering strait. I guess no democratic nation could ever complete such a project. It costs too much money, lasts for much too long for politicals to be interessed, and there are no gulag workers...