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The Longest Train Journey On Earth

In 2000, to celebrate the millennium, I took a train ride. In fact it was not a short ride; rather, it was made up of 30 different trains and it took 60 days, though in retrospect it seemed like a very short ride. And it was not across the world; it was merely as long as a train ride can possibly be, from the southeast corner of Asia in the equatorial Pacific, to the northwest corner of Europe, in Arctic Scandinavia. The idea was to view as much of the world as possible, both contiguously and continuously, by train. Along the way I observed the world from three vantage points: from train windows, from inside the great bazaar of the train itself, and from brief but relatively intense walks (again, the theme of continuous movement) through cities and countryside in Singapore, Malaysia, Thailand, Cambodia, Vietnam, China, Turkistan, Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, Turkmenistan, Azerbaijan, Georgia, Turkey, Bulgaria, Romania, Hungary, Czech Republic, Germany, Denmark, Sweden and Norway. There are more images and an on-line journal at the Runaway Trains web site.
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Gallery: Train stations along the way
[ Gallery: Train stations along the way ]
Singapore
Singapore
Singapore Chinatown
Singapore Chinatown
Singapore temple - refreshing pause
Singapore temple - refreshing pause
Singapore dining on the Quay
Singapore dining on the Quay
Kuala Lumpur Station
Kuala Lumpur Station
Kuala Lumpur Petronas towers
Kuala Lumpur Petronas towers
Kuala Lumpur
Kuala Lumpur
Kuala Lumpur shop
Kuala Lumpur shop
Pinang
Pinang
Butterworth
Butterworth
00-0519-Bangkok2.jpg
00-0519-Bangkok2.jpg
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