Google Virtual Train

[Amby 490]

Armchair explorers can now travel the length of Russia's Trans-Siberian railway - at the click of a mouse.

Google's Virtual Train combines Google Earth with YouTube video footage to follow the full 5,600 mile journey.

Travellers can cross seven time zones, 12 regions and pass through 87 towns and cities between Moscow and Vladivostok.

They can pass the 150 hour journey admiring the views and listening to audio books of Russian classics, such as Leo Tolstoy's War and Peace.

But if sitting through the entire trip is a bit much, users can navigate to specific areas to just catch the highlights.

Multimedia stop-offs include a virtual stroll around Yekaterinburg, oil prospecting in Tyumen, reciting Buddhist mantras in Ulan-Ude or hearing the sound of the cannons on Russkiy Island.

Konstantin Kuzmin, marketing director for Google Russia, said: "We want to demonstrate how unusual and fascinating Russia really is and how much it can offer to a curious tourist.

"I know few people who have travelled along the Trans-Siberian railroad but I am sure that a lot of people feel enthusiastic about this trip.

"That's why we hope that this project will become the starting point not only for the virtual but also for the real trips across Russia."

Google's Virtual Train is at: http://www.google.ru/intl/ru/landing/transsib/en.html

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[Pinocchio Liberal 268]

Can I drive it? can I do a cyber derailment?

[Pinocchio Liberal 268]

Can you pick-up cyber babes and do em in the sleeping cars?

[Amby 490]

[spookyturtle 9,466]

Can you pick-up cyber sheep babes and do em in the sleeping cars?

Fixored.

[Calypso 465]

No free ticket or free trial?

[Lorenzoid 12]

I did a Trans-Sib trip in 2005 with a group of friends. Six months later and totally unknown to me at the time, the woman who is now my wife but who was just an acquaintance at the time did the same trip with a group of her friends. Chatting about this trip and other travel is probably one of the things that sparked our friendship and then romance.

[Peikko 1,575]

That's cool but completely odd.

[IR5FORMUMSIE 850]

Armchair explorers can now travel the length of Russia's Trans-Siberian railway - at the click of a mouse.

Google's Virtual Train combines Google Earth with YouTube video footage to follow the full 5,600 mile journey.

Travellers can cross seven time zones, 12 regions and pass through 87 towns and cities between Moscow and Vladivostok.

They can pass the 150 hour journey admiring the views and listening to audio books of Russian classics, such as Leo Tolstoy's War and Peace.

But if sitting through the entire trip is a bit much, users can navigate to specific areas to just catch the highlights.

Multimedia stop-offs include a virtual stroll around Yekaterinburg, oil prospecting in Tyumen, reciting Buddhist mantras in Ulan-Ude or hearing the sound of the cannons on Russkiy Island.

Konstantin Kuzmin, marketing director for Google Russia, said: "We want to demonstrate how unusual and fascinating Russia really is and how much it can offer to a curious tourist.

"I know few people who have travelled along the Trans-Siberian railroad but I am sure that a lot of people feel enthusiastic about this trip.

"That's why we hope that this project will become the starting point not only for the virtual but also for the real trips across Russia."

Google's Virtual Train is at: http://www.google.ru/intl/ru/landing/transsib/en.html

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That's great but it's still a virtual train. You don't go anywhere, you're just riding that train in vain.

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