Stretching nearly 6,000 miles from Moscow to Vladivostok, the Trans-Siberian Railroad is one of the most ambitious engineering projects ever undertaken. Started in 1891 on the orders of Czar Alexander III, it was completed less than 15 years later, despite having to cross vast stretches of the most remote and unforgiving land on earth and being built by forced labor.MODERN MARVELS® explores the incredible history of this legendary line through a modern-day ride across Russia, archival footage and photos of its construction. It is a tale of irony, contradiction and conflict--intended to bind a vast nation together, it instead witnessed the fall of an empire; built to help provide for defense, it sparked a war. But over a century after the first rails were laid, THE TRANS-SIBERIAN RAILROAD remains a vibrant and vital part of life in the largest nation on earth.