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Snow ripples over sleepers between curving rails on the new Trans-Siberian railroad, October 28, 1978. Across some of the world's most inhospitable terrain 100,000 Soviet builders are at work on a second trans-Siberian railroad. It will be 2,000 miles long, running through a region plagued by mudslides and earthquakes, through 1,800 miles of permafrost and seven mountain ranges, through regions where winter last for nine months and the temperature can drop to 60 degrees below zero Celsius. (Photo by Boris Yurchenko/AP Photo)
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