It's the last month we could watch steam locos in Pingdingshan.

The General Electric built NJ2 0061 and NJ2 0069 are hauling the Lhasa-Xining train K 918 with 14 cars on its way north above a village in the mountains of Tibet. Altitude 4.000 m (12.400 feet).

The platforms in Lhasa station is huge, so they can be used for ceremonial use. The locomotives of the Tibet railway were built as type C38AChe by General Electric, Pennsylvania, USA. This train h... (more)

The Lhasa-Chengdu train on a mountainplain in altitude 4.300 m (13.320 feet)

The 7 tunnels and 286 bridges on the new Qinghai-Tibet Railway has a total length of 80 km (50 miles). The train Lhasa-Xining is seen at altitude 4.100 m (12.750 feet)

The daily train from Tibet capitol Lhasa to Beijing leaves Lhasa so early, that the sun is still behind the mountains. The 4.064 km (2.540 miles) long journey will take 46 hours

A freighttrain pulled by a class SS1 going east towards Nan Jing seen passing Xian main station. Class SS1 from 1968 was the first electric mainline engines in China. 819 locos were built untill 1... (more)

A empty coaltrain heading east between Nan Jing and Xian - both towns with millions of inhabitants. The doublelocomotive class SS4 has a output of 6400 kW. The type has been in production since 19... (more)

China Rail developed a new enginetype for the Qinghai-Tibet Railway, but ended up buying 78 units of type GE C38AChe from General Electric, Pennsylvania, USA. Passengercars for the line were built... (more)

The train from Lhasa to Xining is one of only four passengertrains a day on the new Qinghai-Tibet railway. The locomotives were built in 2006 by General Electric, Pennsylvania, USA

The new Qinghai-Tibet railway is 1.142 km (710 miles) long. A total of 960 km track (600 miles) are laid on permafrost - that's soil frozen all year, except for a thin layer in the surface that wi... (more)

Engine JF1-304 was very famous in China, because Chairman Mao had his portrait on the front. 304 was built 1941 in Japan.

Baldwin built this steamer in 1947 as one of a batch supplied by UNNRA to China for economic recovery after Second World War.

Qinghai-Tibet railway at km 1405 - that's 544 km (338 miles) north of Lhasa. Tanggula station is located at altitude 5.068 m (16.628 feet) and thereby the highest placed railway station in the wor... (more)