What if During Today’s Meeting in Alaska Trump and Putin Made a Deal to Build an InterContinental Railway Connecting Russia With the United States?
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Photo Credit: Intercontinental Railway
By Stan Szymanski
(Thanks to the amazing Brian Byrne for the ‘heads up’ on this subject)
The President of the United States, Donald J. Trump and the President of The Russian Federation, Vladimir Putin meet later today in Alaska. The discussion allegedly includes potential dialogue on land swaps, security assurances, nuclear arms restraint, and economic collaboration.
What if part of the ‘economic collaboration’ talks included plans to build and ‘intercontinental railway’ between Russia and the United States?
Preposterous you say? Not if you look into the history of the subject and consider the place where Putin and Trump are set to meet.
It starts with the Transcontinental Railway.
The history for the desire for a transcontinental railroad goes all the way back to 1845 and a businessperson named Asa Whitney. Whitney was a New York importer active in the China trade who was fixated on the idea of a railroad to the Pacific. In early 1845 he appealed to Congress for a charter and grant of a sixty-mile strip through the public domain to help underwrite construction.
Further:
…’The Railroad Act of 1862 put government support behind the transcontinental railroad and helped create the Union Pacific Railroad, which subsequently joined with the Central Pacific at Promontory, Utah, on May 10, 1869, and signaled the linking of the continent.’…(The Transcontinental Railroad)
President William McKinley (and presidential model of tarrifs imposition for President Trump) was a proponent of an Intercontinental Railway:
…’And not just in words did President McKinley take on the British Empire, but by his actions too in proposing with Russia that they jointly create the largest railway system in the world that would stretch from Europe, across the Bering Straight into Alaska, continue down through North America into Mexico, and end in the South American nation of Argentina—and that President McKinley labeled as “the future for humanity”. (—-Please also see ‘The New Silk Road Becomes the World Land-bridge, Volume 2’)
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Friends, there is indeed a current project known as ‘The InterContinental Railway (ICR)’:
…’The InterContinental Railway (ICR) involves the design, engineering and construction of nearly 5,500 miles of new railroad, connecting existing railroad networks from Yakutsk in Eastern Russia, across the Bering Strait and Alaska to Fort Nelson, Canada to create a continuous rail transportation link between North America, Russia, Asia and Europe. Although the entire railway is below the Arctic Circle, the project will require the construction of the longest railway tunnel in the world - a 70 mile long tunnel more than 160 feet deep under the Bering Strait. Dual gauge tracks or wheel gauge changing technology would be required for train operation across Eastern Russia.
The InterContinental Railway is projected to carry at least 100 Million Gross Tons (MGT) annually of double stack container unit trains, coal, grain, oil unit trains and automobile shipments for foreign trade between the United States, Canada, Russia, China, Japan and Europe. Shipping via ICR trains will take less than half the time of ocean shipping and avoids expensive and time consuming cargo transfers and the delays of ships waiting for berths at seaports. A proposed Trans Korean Main Line would also provide direct service to North and South Korea.
The total cost of the $100+ billion dollar project would be financed by access to resource development rights along the route, waybill fees for shipments, government incentives and low interest government loans.’…(Intercontinental Railway)
At the current oil price in the world, it is cheaper (and more ‘eco-friendly’ for tree huggers) to send goods by an Intercontinental Railway than by cargo ship and would shave weeks off of shipping times:
…’With $50+/barrel oil (2019 pricing; currently $63.68 at last look), rail is a faster, more cost effective alternative than ocean shipping via the Pacific Ocean/Panama Canal and Trans-Arctic Ocean routes. Provides flexible international market access for North American oil, grain and coal exports. Bypasses the environmental and port expansion constraints of Trans-Pacific shipping’…(InterContinental Railway)
As Trump and Putin meet later today in the shadow of Denali (previously known as Mt. McKinley) the realization of 180 years of economic dreams could be on the table. The time for cooperation between the two largest nuclear superpowers to have a big project to work on instead of a war may just have come; and perhaps just in the nick of time. If not, please consider preparing for nuclear war, famine and at least a few big earthquakes.
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