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Re:The world’s longest train journey now begins in China by privong on Tuesday December 09, 2014 @07:17PM (#8726776)
I wasn't sure if "Fright?" was meant to ask if there was a freight rail line with a connection or if you were suggesting that freight traffic would provide the demand.. If the former, the Alaska railroad does not have a rail connection to other railroads in North America. It looks like barges are used to link it to the North American rail network.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alaska_Railroad

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Re:The world’s longest train journey now begins in China by jrockway on Tuesday December 09, 2014 @08:47PM (#8727209)
Basically, I'm guessing that people in this thread assumed "rail = passengers" but I'm guessing that's not why a rail link was proposed, that's all. Passenger rail barely makes money (in the US) running tiny distances between population centers. It's probably not going to make money going from the middle of nowhere Alaska across an ocean. But clearly the idea came from somewhere.
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