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Sunday, July 14, 2019
"Allegro Train Review, and Russian-Finnish Border Crossing"
Since I visited a couple of Finnish cultural centers in Ohio
(part of my own book research for the novel) Saturday, I thought I would select
a video of the Allegro train that connects Helsinki with St. Petersburg.
The best short video available now is by Ekain Munduate and
is called “Allegro Train Review and Russian-Finnish Border Crossing”.
The border check isn’t made to sound like a big deal, and
the announcements are in Russian, Finnish, and English. Russian rail gauge standards is slightly
narrower than Finland’s, which causes problems with some freight trains but not
with the Allegro, which runs at 220 km per hour, with a 3-1/2 hour journey
including border check (390 km).
Yet I would wonder about tourists going into Russia from the
West, if they had made themselves controversial online in social media or even
with other writings.
I haven’t heard much about this.
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By Otto Karikoski - Own work, CC BY-SA 3.0, Link
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