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The Cosmopolitan Railway was one of the first documents envisioning a land route to Alaska, a corridor would later become the Alaska Highway . It also proposed a bridge to Asia via the Bering Strait, a vision that has been dubbed the Intercontinental Peace Bridge , and would be a pivotal link from Europe, Asia, and Africa to the Americas. However the formidable engineering problems with such a connection, plus the problems of building thousands of miles of railway through remote regions of Siberia , Africa , and the Canadian arctic, kept the plan as nothing more than a vision. Some aspects of Gilpin's Cosmopolitan Railway were realized seventy years later when a global network of Air Travel routes were established, overturning the longtime dominance held by ships and railways in international travel. |