| When China decided to build a railroad line, which | | | | technology both old and new. If you look at the GE |
| would be nearly 16,000 feet high a special locomotive | | | | C38AChe, you see that slightly resembles a |
| had to be built to run at these high altitudes, as well as | | | | locomotive, but it's guts are state-of-the-art technology |
| oxygen had to be secured for those passengers and | | | | on the leading edge of locomotive engineering. Here's a |
| locomotive engineers. This technology had to be | | | | picture; |
| borrowed from other sources and luckily there was a | | | | The GE C38AChe is able to operate over the |
| multinational corporation, which was able to handle this. | | | | Himalayas, something no other rail line has ever |
| General Electric has built the GE C38AChe, which is a | | | | achieved and a bold step for trade indeed. Apparently, |
| high altitude locomotive, which runs at optimum even at | | | | whether it is building a Treasure Fleet, Great Wall, |
| high elevations. In fact, General Electric has built 78 of | | | | Massive Cities or even a railroad; China thinks big and |
| these GE C38AChe Locomotives. Each one having | | | | boldly. Using the best technology in the World, China is |
| 4000 hp and to they are an engineering marvel of | | | | making the grade. Consider all this in 2006. |