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Built: 1891-1916.
Workers: Chinese, Italians, Japanese, Koreans, Persians, Russians and Turks.
Cost: approx. US$583 million (including East Chinese Railway).
Length: 5,853 miles.
[M 037 / Connection]: Yekaterinburg-[V 011 / Vladivostok].
Travel Time: Seven days (approx. 170 hrs, 5 min).
Time Zones Traversed: Seven.
Stops: 91.
Average Speed: 35mph.
Highest point: over 4,000 feet in Yablonovy mountains.
[I 009 / Carriage] weight: average 56 tons.
Locomotives:
Electric: Czechoslovakian Skoda ChS2 (max. speed
99mph) and ChS4T(max. speed 112mph).
[P 003 / I 001 / Diesel]: Soviet TEP70 (4,000hp; max. speed 99mph)
and TEP75 (6,000hp; max. speed 99mph)
Gauge: five feet. The differences in gauge between the Chinese and Polish rail systems and that of Russia requires carriages to be lifted off their [P 029&P030&P031&P032 / bogeys] at the border and replaced with those of a different gauge.