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Sichuan-Tibet Railway climbs from Sichuan Basin to ‘Roof of the World’

Updated: Oct 18,2018 9:13 AM     Xinhua

A track laying machine works at the construction site of the section between Lhasa and Nyingchi of the Sichuan-Tibet Railway in Gonggar county of Southwest China’s Tibet autonomous region, Oct 16, 2018. The Sichuan-Tibet Railway climbs from the Sichuan Basin several hundred meters above sea level to the “Roof of the World,” at an altitude of more than 4,400 meters. [Photo/Xinhua]

A worker directs a track laying machine at the construction site of the section between Lhasa and Nyingchi of the Sichuan-Tibet Railway in Gonggar county of Southwest China’s Tibet autonomous region, Oct 16, 2018. [Photo/Xinhua]

A track laying machine works at the construction site of the section between Lhasa and Nyingchi of the Sichuan-Tibet Railway in Gonggar county of Southwest China’s Tibet autonomous region, Oct 16, 2018. [Photo/Xinhua]

Workers lay railway tracks at the construction site of the section between Lhasa and Nyingchi of the Sichuan-Tibet Railway in Gonggar county of Southwest China’s Tibet autonomous region, Oct 16, 2018. [Photo/Xinhua]

A track laying machine works at the construction site of the section between Lhasa and Nyingchi of the Sichuan-Tibet Railway in Gonggar county of Southwest China’s Tibet autonomous region, Oct 16, 2018. [Photo/Xinhua]

Workers lay railway tracks at the construction site of the section between Lhasa and Nyingchi of the Sichuan-Tibet Railway in Gonggar county of Southwest China’s Tibet autonomous region, Oct 16, 2018. [Photo/Xinhua]