A container train speeds by on a beautiful summer evening

A passenger train running between Shanghai and Lhasa has almost reached the Nagqu Station on its way north. The snow-capped mountains as the background are the Nyenchen Tanglha Mountains.

The Soviet locomotive class P36 (Russian: П36) was a Soviet mainline passenger steam locomotive type. Between 1950 and 1956, 251 locomotives were built. The locomotives were nicknamed "Gener... (more)