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t2contra said:

It takes less than half a day to change wheels.

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South Korean coast guard reach the capsized fishing boat near South Korea's western waters, Jan. 21, 2018. Three people were found dead as a suspected Chinese fishing boat capsized near South Korea's western waters, Yonhap news agency reported on Sunday. (Xinhua)

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A crew member opens the inflight wifi service on board the flight CZ6365 of China Southern Airlines, Jan. 20, 2018. More Chinese airlines have begun to allow mobile phone use on their aircraft or announced plans to lift a ban. Passengers on board the aircraft can use portable electronic devices (PED), such as smartphones and tablets, but phones still have to be switched to airplane mode. (Xinhua/Chu Hongyu)

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A crew member helps a passenger connect his mobile phone to the inflight wifi on board the flight CZ6365 of China Southern Airlines, Jan. 20, 2018.

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A man with mask rides in fog on street of Nanning, capital of south China's Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, Jan. 21, 2018. (Xinhua/Zhou Hua)

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Tourists read books at a book bar in Xuyi County of Huai'an City, east China's Jiangsu Province, Jan. 21, 2018. The book bar in Tieshan Temple National Forest Park opened free to the public on Sunday with about 100,000 books available for tourists to read. (Xinhua/Zhou Haijun)

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The gilded silver sachet with canary patterns is exhibited at the Nanning Museum in South China’s Guangxi Zhuang autonomous region, Jan 18. [Photo/VCG]
Exquisite gold and silver wares from ancient China went on display at Nanning Museum in South China's Guangxi Zhuang autonomous region from Jan 18, 2018.
The gilded silver sachet with canary patterns is one of the biggest draws as its design resembles the silver sachet shown in National Treasure, a hit CCTV program on historical relics.
The over-1,000-year-old sachet, which has sophisticated mechanics, still functions well. No matter how the outer globe rotates, the inner case with kindled incense always stays upright so no sparks sprinkle outside.

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A decorated vessel is on display at the Nanning Museum in South China’s Guangxi Zhuang autonomous region, Jan 18. [Photo/VCG]

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Shaolin drama "Soul of Shaolin" is performed in Venice, Italy, on Jan 18, 2018. Chinese artists performed engagingly at the famous La Fenice Opera House in Italy's lagoon city of Venice Thursday, on the eve of the official launch of the 2018 China-EU Tourism Year. [Photo/Xinhua]

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B.I.B. said:

Sorry, but I don't understand how that fits in with the possibility of making only a one or no stop trip from Xian to Hungry or Yixinou to Madrid. The latter trip requires 3 stops to shift the load onto different wagons because of incompatibility of track gauges.
Most modern tracks are monitored electronically but as far as I know because I actually saw them at work in parts of Russia and Eastern Europe they still employed "wheel tappers." When the train is stopped they walk along the length of the train tapping the wheels with a bar. A wheel with a crack makes a different sound to a wheel that hasn't. So I guess along a trip that involves less modern tracks and can take as long as three weeks provides another reason to shift the load onto another set of pre checked wagons where the gauge changes.

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t2contra said:

According to my source, the containers are shifted onto different gauge wagons alongside. A 41 car train can be transhipped in under an hour.

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B.I.B. said:

Which then brings us around to my original post where I suggested more than one stop was necessary for the previously mentioned reasons.

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t2contra said:

Eighteen days should be sufficient to cover the distance with one more stop if you do the math.

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Workers work on the construction site of Longyan railway station to join three existing railways to a new railway linking Nanping and Longyan in Longyan city of Southeast China's Fujian province, Jan 19, 2018. The project, involving 1,500 workers, is completed in less than 9 hours. The 246.55 km-long Nanping-Longyan railway, designed to run at a speed of 200 km per hour, is a part of the plan to improve the local transportation system. [Photo/Xinhua]

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Workers sew a shopping bag in Lyu Xiaofang's(L) factory in Shangshui county, Henan province. [Photo/Xinhua]
ZHENGZHOU－A decade ago, Lyu Xiaofang was one of millions of young Chinese women who left their rural homes to find work in distant cities.
Now, the 30-year-old migrant worker has returned to her village in Shangshui county, Henan province, and built a business making shopping bags, enabling other village women to earn money.
Wearing shiny earrings, lipstick and a stylish woolen coat, Lyu owns nine factories. In 2011, she set up the first, using sewing skills she mastered while working in Jiangsu province. She employs more than 300 young women from nearby villages.

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Postman Yang Yinke walks on a mountain road to deliver mail to villagers in Hongtiguan township of Pingshun county, North China's Shanxi province, Jan 17, 2018. The 60-year-old postman walks on a rugged path in the remote Taihang Mountains every day to deliver mails for villagers deep in the mountains. Equipped with a stick and a bag, Yang has been working in the mountainous area for 30 years and traveled a distance about 200,000 kilometers these years. [Photo/Xinhua]

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Postman Yang Yinke prepares to deliver newspaper to Huaishuping village of Pingshun county, North China's Shanxi province, Jan 17, 2018. [Photo/Xinhua]

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Postman Yang Yinke (R) talks with villagers at Hongtiguan township of Pingshun county, North China's Shanxi province, Jan 17, 2018. [Photo/Xinhua]

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