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Photographs of "life on board the Trans-Siberian Railway, and beyond the carriage window". Russian Railways official website; Overview of passenger travel today "A 1903 map of Trans-Siberian railway". Guide to the Great Siberian Railway (1900) Mikhailoff, M. (May 1900). "The Great Siberian Railway" . the North American Review. 170 (522).
In 1904, a syndicate of American railroad magnates proposed (through a French spokesman) a Siberian–Alaskan railroad from Cape Prince of Wales in Alaska through a tunnel under the Bering Strait and across northeastern Siberia to Irkutsk via Cape Dezhnev, Verkhnekolymsk, and Yakutsk (around 5,000 km [3,100 mi] of railroad to build, plus over 3,000 km [1,900 mi] in North America).
Map of the Trans-Siberian (red) and Baikal–Amur Mainline (green) Railways. The Trans-Siberian Railway and its various associated branches and supporting lines, completed in 1916, established the first rail connection between Europe and Asia, from Moscow to Vladivostok. The line, at 9,200 kilometres (5,720 mi), is the longest rail line in the ...
English: Trans-Siberian Railroad map. Red: Route of the Trans-Siberian Railway since 1930. Blue: Route in the west before 1930. Violet: Route in the east until 1916. Black: Southern variant in Siberia. Green: Baikal–Amur Mainline. Orange: Amur–Yakutsk Mainline. International Version with Names in local language and English translation.
This is a route-map template for the Trans-Siberian Railway, a railway in Russia.. For a key to symbols, see {{railway line legend}}.; For information on using this template, see Template:Routemap.
Map of major railways in Russia, with Trans–Siberian Railway shown in red, BAM in green and Amur Yakutsk Mainline (including "Little BAM") shown in orange. The line is single-track, excepting the double-track section from Tynda to Bestuzhevo, which is shared with the Baikal–Amur Mainline (BAM). The full length of the line is not electrified.
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A further proposal for a bridge-and-tunnel link from eastern Russia to Alaska was made by French engineer Baron Loicq de Lobel in 1906. Czar Nicholas II of Russia issued an order authorising a Franco-American syndicate represented by de Lobel to begin work on the Trans-Siberian Alaska railroad project, but no physical work ever commenced.
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