https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_Eastern_Railway
The Chinese Eastern Railway, a single-track line, provided a shortcut for the world's longest railroad, the Trans-Siberian Railway, from near the Siberian city of Chita, across northern inner Manchuria via Harbin to the Russian port of Vladivostok.This route drastically reduced the travel distance required along the originally proposed main northern route to Vladivostok, which lay …