Dangxiong 4,293 m, clean and empty railwaystation
Salama and Albin inside the compartment
A look outside the window
The railway goes mostly on piles
The track goes along the Tsang Po valley
The Qinghai-Tibet Railway
Modern tourist bus runs beside the Tibet train
The Tsang Po river also called Yarlung Zangbo Rive…
Crossing the Tsang Po river
View over the grain fields to the highway
Just out of Lhasa
Along the Zang Po river
Our group is boarding the train
Boarding the coach No. 11
The train is ready for Beijing
Modern construction in the railway station
The gate to board the train to Xining
The waiting room in the railway station
Lhasa railway station
The tickets for a sleeping car
The map of the railway from Lhasa to Xining
The floor inside along the coach
Unending foothills in front of the high mountains
Riverbed of Nam Cho
No one on the highway
Snow just in a bit higher altitude
The remain of workers temporary accommodations
Small pool beside the track
Impressive cloud formations
Near Amdo
Cuona Lake near Amdo
Close ride beside the Cuona Lake
Cuona Lake
Cuona Lake
View out the window to the Cuona Lake
Nagqu River near Amdo
Erosion protection
Amdo Station
Climbing to the high Tanggula Mountains
Climbing more and more higher and higher
Erosion protection every where
The high mountans in the background
Vista to the landscape near Thangla Ri
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The trail on the piles
There were and are many technical difficulties for such a railway. About half of the second section was built on barely permanent permafrost. In the summer, the uppermost layer thaws, and the ground becomes muddy. Chinese engineers dealt with this problem by building elevated tracks with foundations sunk deep into the ground, building hollow concrete pipes beneath the tracks to keep the rail bed frozen, and using metal sun shades. Similar to the Trans-Alaska Pipeline System portions of the track are also passively cooled with ammonia based heat exchangers.
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