Only one half of a 2ZAGAL locomotive, # 009, is pulling the famous 11 car train # 4 "Trans Siberian Express" from Moscow to Beijing (7622 kilometers) through the loop of Khonkhor. It is sunday morning 08.14 AM now, the once a week train started at Moscow Yaroslavski station on tuesday evening 11.55 PM and will arrive at Beijing main station the following day (monday) at 11.40 AM. The cars are from the chinese railway, excluding the dining car, which is from Mongolia on this part of the journey. On this place at the omega shaped loop, the distance between the two tracks is 80 meters only, the difference in height about 12 meters. The grade of the line is around 0.7 %.
