Luxury Rail Across Continents
Things with no place
How does this exist in spatial relation to other knowledge?
This arrangement is schematic. Distance and direction on this diagram carry no physical meaning — it shows how these things relate, not where they are. Nothing here is measured position, live telemetry or a simulation.
Ideas and conditions23
Something with no place at all: a condition, a plan, an idea.
- Ruling gradient
- Track gauge as a colonial decision
- Compagnie Internationale des Wagons-Lits
- Georges Nagelmackers
- James Sherwood
- Baron Maurice de Hirsch
- Permafrost as a track foundation
- The Balkans
- Siberia
- Baikal–Amur Mainline (BAM)
- The Blue Train
- Canadian Pacific transcontinental main line
- Chemins de fer Orientaux (Oriental Railway)
- Chinese Eastern Railway
- The Ghan
- Orient Express
- Rovos Rail
- Trans-Siberian Railway
- Venice Simplon-Orient-Express
- Circum-Baikal Railway
- Severomuysky Tunnel
- The through sleeping car
- The main-line steam locomotive