And finally, and somewhat more recently, the last link tonight that I’ve stolen from the Here Be Dragons community at LiveJournal is this doozy of a map of the railroads of the former Soviet Union. Different colours represent different kinds of rail line: passenger or freight, electrified or not, narrow gauge or standard, that sort of thing. The map is in Russian, so you’ll likely have a hard time with the place names, but there’s an English legend.