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how high is the world's highest railroad? 16,400 feet (where is the oxygen mask?)
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here's an update...make your bookings <br /> <br />Qinghai-Tibet luxury tour train ready to roll by 2007 <br /> <br />PEOPLE will get to see the beautiful scenery of mysterious Tibet on the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau aboard a luxury train by the end of 2007. <br /> <br />According to an agreement signed in Beijing on Saturday, the Qinghai-Tibet Railway Corporation and the Railpartners Inc of the United States will set up a joint venture to operate the tour business. <br /> <br />The train will run 2,040km from Xining, capital of northwestern China's Qinghai province, to Lhasa, capital of the Tibet autonomous region in south-western China. The tour will be part of the country's gigantic Qinghai-Tibet Railway project. <br /> <br />It would take three days to complete the one-way travel, and rail stations have been built near scenic spots, a Qinghai-Tibet Corporation release said. <br /> <br />With the railway open to traffic from July 1 next year, scenic spots on the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau such as Qinghai Lake, the Kekexili Nature Reserve, Potala Palace and the Taer Lamasery – the sacred place of Tibetan Buddhism – will be linked together. <br /> <br />Railways Ministry transport bureau director Zhang Shuguang said it would take only 48 hours to travel from Beijing to Lhasa once the railway is open next year. <br /> <br />“Given that the railway is located at an average altitude of 4,500m above sea level, trains including sleeping carriages, a dining carriage and domed carriages will be equipped with an oxygen system to combat the thin air,” Zhang told reporters. <br /> <br />The Qinghai-Tibet Railway, which connects Tibet with the rest of China, was completed in October after four years of construction. – China Daily
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