A passenger train running between Shanghai and Lhasa has almost reached the Nagqu Station on its way north. The snow-capped mountains as the background are the Nyenchen Tanglha Mountains.

A passenger train from from Lhasa, Tibet to Xining, Qinghai.

NJ2 locomotive passes Cuona Nature Reserve with Cuona Lake as the background.

NJ2 locomotive passes Hoh Xil Nature Reserve with Yuzhu Peak as the background.

This is a train from Lhasa, Tibet to Xining, Qinghai. It passed through the whole Qinghai-Tibet railroad. At sunrise, the train passed the Yuzhu Peak and about to arrive at Golmud Station.

Traveling on the Qinghai - Tibet Railway at 4600m above sea level. Damxung is a Tibetan county 170km to the north of Lhasa.

A remote area in the mountains of Tibet at altitude 4.000 meters (12.400 feet). The train is on its way from Tibet capitol Lhasa to Xining. The 3 dieselengines of type C38AChe were built in 2006 b... (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

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)

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)

Qinghai-Tibet railway has a length of 1.142 km (710 miles). All in all 154 km (95 miles) of the track is placed on bridges and viaducts. This S-shaped highbridge is 2 km (1,3 miles) long. Altitude... (more)