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   Gary McGath to Keith F. Lynch   
   Re: Montreal wins 2027 Worldcon bid   
   17 Aug 25 20:12:11   
   
   XPost: rec.music.filk   
   From: garym@mcgath.com   
      
   On 8/17/25 11:53 AM, Keith F. Lynch wrote:   
      
   > I know it's possible to take a train from the UK through the Chunnel   
   > to Europe, and presumably also to Asia.  But unfortunately, there's no   
   > railroad tunnel or bridge between Siberia and Alaska, so I doubt you   
   > can get the whole way to Montreal by rail.   
   >   
   > Maybe plans for such a connection were discussed at the recent Alaska   
   > summit meeting.  That way something productive would have come from it.   
      
   I don't think you can get to the Russian side of the Bering Strait by   
   rail. About the closest you can get is Yakutsk.   
      
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