China launches mountain rail route to Myanmar, Indian Ocean
NorthSouth Freight - Report 001: Punching through Himalaya's Gaolingong to reach the Bay of Bengal. Rocks were so hard and sediments so water logged that each time they punched a hole through, water would rained from the dammed-up natural reservoirs to flood the work areas. After that, it took weeks to pump off the water. As a result, inside Hengduan, the mountains just outside of Baoshan, the drilling, blasting and digging for a tunnel managed to advance 1 metre a week, 156 metres after two years...