Day 4479: 180 Rice Fields & China's Haoji Railway Bridge

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The Kunugidai Rice Terraces in the town of Asahi (Yamagata Prefecture) are uniquely beautiful this time of year. It's peak-harvest season and the 180 rice fields are lined with stakes where rice is sun dried before being shipped.

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Her 30th birthday, Long Beach, CA 1945. I was 4

This is the 1,813-kilometer-long Haoji Railway Bridge in China. It is the longest railway bridge in the world, the bridge is used for the transportation of coal. The total cost was around 28 billion US dollars. It was built to transport 200 million tons of coal from Inner Mongolia and Shanxi to the southern provinces of China. It is a heavy rail system with 1435 gauge tracks The railway is also China's first north-south railway that is dedicated to coal, and is built to avoid existing coal transportation routes that pass through coastal cities by boat. The line reduces transi: time from 20 days by sea to just 3 days by rail. The line connects with existing railways at several points to share maintenance facilities.

The design speed of the railway is 120 kilometers per hour. It is operated by China Railway. The line was

approved in 2014 at a cost of 27 billion USD. It was financed by China Railway and several large national coal mining companies. The railway was inaugurated on September 28, 2019.

 

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