I board a green train with a yellow stripe in Xining - Episode 3

I board a green train with a yellow stripe in Xining. 

This is not just any train, like the one Polish singer Maryla Rodowicz once sang about during the communist era, the days of socialist realism, but a train made up of carriages equipped with oxygen capsules.

 

Communism has survived in the PRC, but in the technological race it is overtaking the old, worn-out lions of the West.

You can already hear the rumbling coming from Washington, D.C.

And nothing more. Growls that might frighten, at most, a few little mice.

I’m boarding a train in Xining. This is the highest railway in the world, and in 22 hours I’ll be in the heart of Tibet, in Lhasa.#Tibet #Xining #train #China pic.twitter.com/A6btIhmcUz

— Leonard Szuszkiewicz (@Tribudragon) September 28, 2026