China is home to some of the most breathtaking railway journeys on Earth 🚆✨ From the roof of the world on the Qinghai–Tibet Railway, where tracks cross vast high-altitude plains and snow-capped mountains, to the charming Jiayang Steam Railway in rural Sichuan, where vintage locomotives wind through bamboo forests and rice terraces. Travel south and you’ll find railways threading through the dramatic mountains of Yunnan, while routes near Guilin glide past iconic karst limestone peaks straight o

China is home to some of the most breathtaking railway journeys on Earth 🚆✨ From the roof of the world on the Qinghai–Tibet Railway, where tracks cross vast high-altitude plains and snow-capped mountains, to the charming Jiayang Steam Railway in rural Sichuan, where vintage locomotives wind through bamboo forests and rice terraces. Travel south and you’ll find railways threading through the dramatic mountains of Yunnan, while routes near Guilin glide past iconic karst limestone peaks straight o

China is home to some of the most breathtaking railway journeys on Earth 🚆✨ From the roof of the world on the Qinghai–Tibet Railway, where tracks cross vast high-altitude plains and snow-capped mountains, to the charming Jiayang Steam Railway in rural Sichuan, where vintage locomotives wind through bamboo forests and rice terraces. Travel south and you’ll find railways threading through the dramatic mountains of Yunnan, while routes near Guilin glide past iconic karst limestone peaks straight o

Astonishing aerial view of Qinghai-Tibet Railway, the world's highest and longest railway built on a plateau. | China Xinhua Sci-Tech

4.2K views · 160 reactions | All aboard! Step inside a carriage on the Qinghai-Tibet railway, the highest railroad in the world. | China Plus Culture | Facebook

Modern engineering feats are central to the development of the US – from the Hoover Dam and Golden Gate Bridge to the Transcontinental Railroad built largely by Chinese immigrants. Similarly, in Tibet, 16,000 feet above sea level, rests the world’s highest railway station – just one stop on the 2,000 mile-long Qinghai-to-Tibet Railway that crosses plateaus and snakes through mountains. Its construction battled frozen soil, fragile ecology, and limited oxygen. But since opening in 2006, it has br

Six people died and 10 others are missing after a construction cable broke at around 3 a.m. Friday at a bridge under construction on the Qinghai section of the Sichuan-Qinghai Railway, according to the relevant department in northwest China's Qinghai Province. Search and rescue efforts are underway. The bridge being built over the Yellow River is a steel truss arch construction. Its main span was expected to be closed by the end of this month. #Trending | CCTV

Yuan Wancai, a previous construction worker at the Qinghai-Tibet Railway with rich experience in building high-altitude railways, now leads the formidable task of constructing the Sichuan-Tibet Railway's extremely challenging Tongmai section. This section is a key pass of the Sichuan-Tibet Railway, characterized by hazardous terrain and loosely packed mountains. It is also home to the second-largest debris flow area in Asia, with over 300 geological disasters occurring annually. Historically, it