Chapter 324 – The Great North Manchurian Oil Field (1)

From Houten to Shinkyo. From Shinkyo to Harbin. And from there, toward Qiqihar.

The entire journey covered a distance of roughly 650 kilometers. Including transfers, even by limited express it took nearly half a day of travel.

And along most of the railway line, aside from the occasional small town the train passed through or farmhouses visible far in the distance, nothing but vast open plains stretched endlessly onward. I had experienced something similar in America, but even America had more variation than this place.

Because agricultural development still had a long way to go, the tracks simply continued in a perfectly straight line without end. Other than the railway itself, the only thing running alongside it was what looked like telephone lines strung together like power cables.

Fortunately, we were not taking the first train of the morning, so we enjoyed a