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MAY 15, 2000 VOL. 156 NO. 19

Web Crawling

  TRAVEL WATCH
Do-It-Yourself Luxury on Thailand's Railways
The romance of rail travel is alive and well in Southeast Asia.

Detour
Visitors to Kota Kinabalu can take a trip back to colonial times on the newly refurbished North Borneo Railway

Web Crawling
Depots for sites providing information on passenger rail travel throughout Asia and Russia

Railway Fan
(web.kyoto-inet.or.jp/people/t-koto/kdoc1e.html)

RAIL RAGE Trainspotting is not the easiest hobby to understand, but Takashi Koto's website dedicated to his photographs of railways all over Asia goes a long way toward explaining the obsession. Koto has ridden passenger trains in Malaysia, Thailand, Korea, Taiwan, China and Japan. His site includes a travelogue and maps that chart out his journeys through each country. If you're planning your own Asian rail adventure, pull your e-train into this station.

Rail Serve
(www.railserve.com/passenger/asia)

ASIA WIDE This serves as a depot for sites providing information on passenger rail travel throughout Asia and Russia. The list ranges from Baku, Azerbaijan to Yokohama, Japan and all stops in between. Whether you want the timetable for the Taegu line in Korea or route maps for the Philippines, you'll find it here. The site also includes links to the public transit systems in large Asian cities.

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