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Back on Track
Bound for Siberia on the Golden Eagle Trans-Siberian Express.
by Caroline Seebohm
 We're sitting on a cobalt-blue train clanking out of Moscow's Kazanskaya station on the first leg of a ride into unknown territory. The Trans-Siberian Railroad's route stretches almost 5,800 miles from Europe to Asia, passing deserts, forests, mountains, steppes and the remote, unexplored communities of Siberia. Both my fellow traveler and I have ridden many trains, including the California Zephyr and the Broadway Limited in the U.S. and the Palace on Wheels in northern India, but nothing has prepared us for the spectacle and exoticism we are about to experience on this eight-day trip.
The train, which debuted last summer, is the star, of course. Each of the twelve sleeping quarters on the Golden Eagl ....
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