1958年12月，兰新铁路铺轨过红柳河大桥，进入新疆境内，结束了新疆没有铁路的历史。1962年底，铺轨到自治区首府乌鲁木齐，与全国铁路贯通，翻开了新疆交通运输史上的新的一页。现在我局共有职工五万四千多人，由汉、维、哈、回、锡伯等17个民族组成。全局所辖线路，大都处在茫茫戈壁滩上，从“百里风区”、“三十里风口”，以及海拔3000米的高寒山区通 In December 1958, Lanxin Railway was laid over Hongliuhe Bridge and entered Xinjiang. It ended the history of no railway in Xinjiang. By the end of 1962, it went to Urumqi, the capital of the autonomous region, and penetrated the national railway, opening a new page in the history of transport in Xinjiang. At present, our bureau has a total of 54,000 workers and staffs and is composed of 17 ethnic groups including Han, Victoria, Ha, Hui, Xibe. The overall jurisdiction of the line, mostly in the vast desert Gobi, from the “Barry wind area”, “thirty miles tuyere”, and 3,000 meters above sea level alpine mountain pass