Google worked with RZhD to put a virtual ride on Youtube a few years ago: http://www.theguardian.com/world/2010/feb/16/google-tran-sib...

The link to Google.ru 404s [1]. Does anyone know if this is a real 404 and this site is gone, or if this is Google's dumb idea at localizing content (they send 404s depending on how they think your IP represents your geo location ... for some reason).

1: http://www.google.ru/intl/ru/landing/transsib/en.html

Or even some torrent?

I don't think most people would want to download 200 gig of video just to get a glimpse of this.

why not? I've got a spare monitor to run as a realtime Trans-Siberian window view ;)

I'm in the neighborhood and have been thinking about making the trip.

If anyone wants to fund a ticket and a camera (GoPro?) I'll make a video.

Based on some incredibly cursory pre-coffee googling, it would be about $1200 for the ticket (assuming you want a decent private-ish berth), probably around $500 for a GoPro and various equipment (a way to mount it on the window, spare batteries, chargers, memory, etc.) and somewhere in the neighborhood of $800 for the flight back (I wouldn't want to subject you to eight hours on an S7 flight.)

$2500 is a pretty reasonable goal to throw up on a crowdfunding website.

Good idea! I've never run a crowdfunded project, but this seems like a good use-case.

I just created a Kickstarter, let's see what happens once it's approved.

I'm a bit surprised there isn't already a video of the entire journey.

For example, there's a 5+ day long video of the entire Hurigruten route along the coast of Norway at http://nrk.no/hurtigruten/?lang=en .