On July 1, the Chinese government celebrated with great fanfare the opening of the final stretch of its railway to Tibet. The section runs between the city of Golmud in Qinghai province and the ...

Yak herders in Damxung, north of Tibet’s capital city, are banking on the new Qinghai-Tibet train to bring prosperity to their pristine but poor land. The sleek train, the world’s highest, snaking ...

LHASA, China, July 3 -- -- LHASA, China, July 3 -- After rolling under snow-covered peaks and crossing 2,500 miles, the first train ever to travel from Beijing to Tibet pulled into a station here ...

In the summer of 2006 the Chinese government fulfilled a fiftyyear plan to build a railway into Tibet As noted by Abrahm Lustgarten in his book Chinas Great Train Since Mao Tse Tung first envisioned ...