(Asia)--Silk Route by Rail. Trailblazer. This guide covers the recently-opened line which follows the old Silk Route. You can now travel by rail from Moscow via the Central Asian cities of Samarkand and Tashkent across western China to Beijing. This second edition has been fully updated and includes new maps. ISBN 1-873756-14-3. 2nd edition, March 1997. 320 pages, 37 maps and 30 color photographs.