The Trans-Siberian Railway is the longest single railway in the world. Single means one connected route, not a web of separate lines.
It links Moscow with Vladivostok and crosses Russia from end to end.
The trip without long stops takes seven days.
The passenger stays on the same train.
Rivers, cities, and the continent change.
The line passes 87 cities.
And 12 major rivers — the Volga, the Ob, the Yenisei, and the Amur.
The route starts in Europe, but Asia covers 81 percent of the miles.
That is the heart of the journey.
The record does not come from the speed of the train.
It comes from one line that never breaks across the whole country.
And 5,771 miles (9,289 kilometers)?
That is about 82 hours of driving at 70 mph (113 km/h), the usual US interstate limit, with no stop at all.
So a comparison with an ordinary train fools the eye.
The scale is in the miles under the wheels, not in the height of the car.
Europe ends early on this route.
Asia takes nearly all the rest.
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