ABOARD THE BEIJING-LHASA EXPRESS, China - A $4 billion high-altitude train climbed past melon fields and herds of sheep Sunday on its way from Beijing to Tibet - a new element in China's ...

China's new train from Beijing to Tibet arrived in the ancient capital of Lhasa Monday, ending its maiden journey after climbing to elevations so high that ballpoint pens and packaged foods burst.

Chugging past shaggy yaks and fluffy clouds that look low enough to lasso, the train from Beijing to Lhasa makes its final climb into nosebleed territory pulled by three locomotives instead of the ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... ABOARD THE BEIJING-LHASA EXPRESS- Chugging past shaggy yaks and fluffy clouds that look low enough to lasso, the train from Beijing to Lhasa makes its final ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... ABOARD THE BEIJING-LHASA EXPRESS, China- China's first train from Beijing to Tibet made the final leg of its journey Monday on the world's highest railway, ...

Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. Even on her journey of a lifetime, Beijing official Yang Hong felt terrible. As the railway ministry's boss of dining ...

The first passenger train from China 's capital, Beijing, arrived in Lhasa, capital of Tibet Autonomous Region Monday night. The train, carrying some 800 passengers, arrived in the Lhasa Railway ...

In spite of the benefit of being ruled by a “living Buddha,” decades of planning and a cost of billions of dollars, parts of the Beijing-Lhasa railway, China’s “engineering miracle,” are sinking.

A view from the train on the way to Tibet Feedloader (Clickability) In 2006 when the People’s Republic of China started railroad service from Beijing to the Tibetan capital of Lhasa—a 2,525-mile route ...