The Trans-Siberian Railway
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Thousands of Russian troops march straight across Lake Baikal to reach Port Arthur, a harbor in Manchuria. It is there that the Japanese have launched an attack on the Russian naval fleet. The Trans-Sabirian Railway runs uninterrupted for over 5,700 miles across Russia from Moscow and the west to Vladivostok in the east. But this is the most treacherous stretch of its journey as it has to go overLake Baikal. As the ice groans and creaks under the weight of a locomotive but is pulling several carriages loaded with supplies and more troops. Now soldiers with sledgehammers fight to detach the carriages from the engine. If it sinks
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