TORNIO, Finland/KARLSKRONA, Sweden ¨C High above a railway bridge spanning a foaming river just outside the Arctic Circle, Finnish construction workers hammer away at a project that will smooth the connections from NATO¡¯s Atlantic coastline in Norway to its new border with Russia.
¡°We will be removing some 1,200 of these one by one,¡± says site manager Mika Hakkarainen, holding up a rivet.
Until February 2022, the €37 million ($41 million) electrification of this short stretch of rail ¡ª the only rail link between Sweden and Finland ¡ª simply promised locals a chance to catch a night train down to the bright lights of Stockholm.
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