The train driver in the courtyard

Chapter 119
In the morning, in the faint morning light.

The rescue train left the Turpan locomotive depot and set foot on the newly laid railroad tracks.

Surrounded by unpacked road-building equipment.

Wooden sleepers, steel sleepers, fasteners, gauge rods, rail braces, hammers, picks, shovels, etc. Various road construction equipment are neatly placed on both sides of the rails.

There are also barracks and tents in the wasteland not far away.

The Corps suddenly received an order from its superiors the night before.

Considering that they have worked hard for a while, the superiors specially gave them a day off if they had a good rest so that they could devote themselves to work better.

but.

Before the holiday, all the equipment on the rails must be cleaned up, and there will be a special inspection.

It was a rare day for the railway soldiers to rest. After breakfast, they went to the county town fifty miles away to buy daily necessities such as toothbrushes and toothpaste.

Hearing the roar of the train, they all ran out with bowls to watch the fun.

How can a train pass by if it has not yet opened to traffic?

Could it be that the so-called rest is to make way for this train?
What is the origin of the people on the train?
Confusion flashed in the eyes of the railway soldiers.

Under the bewildered eyes of the railway soldiers, the train was traveling a certain distance and entered the mountain stream along the rails.

The terrain in the mountains is steep and the tracks are undulating.

In the past, when more than a dozen carriages were loaded, the power of the train seemed insufficient, and the driver Li Aiguo had to follow Master Zheng to shovel coal.

but.

Now the locomotive has only seven carriages on it.

It's like a long-distance runner who has lost his weight, full of strength, and shuttles quickly between the mountains.

"Attention drivers, there are unfinished slow running lights ahead, and we are about to enter the turning area."

Liu Qingquan retracted his head from the car window.

After receiving the report from the co-driver Liu Qingquan, Li Aiguo pulled down the gate, and the train slowly slowed down.

The road construction work in the turning area was far less complete than before. After driving for a certain distance, Li Aiguo felt that the train was shaking from side to side.

This is caused by the cracks in the bolt holes and welded joints of the rail joints, and the displacement of the sleepers under the rails.

Before it is opened to traffic, if someone is sent to inspect it, it will definitely be inspected and repaired.

Cao Wenzhi, who was supposed to change shifts, was a little worried, so he also came to the driver's building at this time.

Feeling the swaying of the train, he asked worriedly: "Patriotic, how is it?"

"The problem shouldn't be too big, the shaking range does not exceed the carrying value of the car body."

"It's fine."

The voice just fell.

Peng!
The train shook violently, the train tipped to one side, and Cao Wenzhi's head hit the window hard.

Fortunately, he reacted quickly and shrunk down extremely quickly, thus avoiding a competition of hardness with the window.

As an old train driver, Cao Wen knew it all.

On the rails under the train, the loose screws fell off during the high-speed impact of the wheels, and a section of the rails was displaced.

A part of the originally smooth rail suddenly bulged, and the high-speed rotating wheels hit the bulge, causing the train to sway violently.

He squatted on the ground, his face turned pale, and dense sweat oozes from his forehead.

The magnitude of the shaking will become larger and larger, eventually leading to the derailment of the train.

When the train is running at high speed, once it detaches from the track, the driver's building at the front of the train will be crushed even if it is on flat ground.

What's more, the train is now running halfway up the mountain, with jagged rocks on both sides.

Both Liu Qingquan and Master Zheng froze in place, their faces darkened, and their eyes were full of panic.

In the driver's building, the only two people with normal expressions were Li Aiguo and Lao Mao.

The old cat stopped fiddling with the radio, sighed deeply, and turned his head to look at the hearth. The bright red flames were reflected in his eyes, dancing and jumping in the black pupils.

He seemed to see the bright red faith.

However, Li Aiguo's expression did not change at all.

Because he has already analyzed the height of the raised point of the rail through the vibration and violent noise of the rail.

Two centimeters. Just two centimeters.

The raised point is located on the left wheel.

At this time, the train was passing a right-turn curve, and the right wheel had already been suspended in the air.

The only way to avoid derailment is to.
"Old Zheng, light the fire!!"

"Give labor and capital a boost!!"

Li Aiguo suddenly roared, waking up everyone in the driver's building.

They woke up from their daze and rushed to the hearth.

Old Zheng stepped on the furnace door, picked up a big shovel, and desperately filled the furnace with coal.

At this time there was no need to look around, the co-driver Liu Qingquan jumped down from the co-pilot's seat, picked up the co-pilot shovel, and threw a lump of coal into it.

Even Cao Wenzhi and Lao Mao rushed to help.

Without a coal shovel, they filled the furnace with coal lumps in their hands.

The old cat's nails were hit by sharp coals, and the blood was flowing. He resisted the pain and threw the blood-stained coals into the furnace.

They didn't know Li Aiguo's purpose, nor did they know if it was useful.

But at the moment of life and death, if you don't do something, you will have to wait for death.

With shovel after shovel, handfuls of coal were filled into the hearth, and the flames in the hearth rose to an unprecedented height.

Bursts of black smoke came out from the chimney at the front of the car, and the pointer of the speedometer climbed up little by little.

The train tilted more and more, and with a hand stretched out of the window, it was enough to touch the boulder next to it.

The ferocious markings on the boulder are clearly visible.

"Not enough, not enough, just go faster!"

Li Aiguo's eyes were fixed on the speedometer, and his hands were tightly gripped on the brake valves on the front of the car and the car.

Seeing this scene, Cao Wenzhi was so frightened that the train was running at almost [-] kilometers per hour.

At such a high speed, the train is easy to derail under the huge force of the carriage when the brakes are taken suddenly.

All train drivers know that when the train is heavily loaded, even if there are people standing on the track, it cannot brake.

Doesn't Li Aiguo know this?

Cao Wenzhi was just about to speak.

The train swayed violently again, and this time the sway was even bigger. Liu Qingquan was thrown out, and his head hit the hearth, dripping blood.

Cao Wenzhi smiled wryly, anyway, the train is about to derail, so what's the point of derailing again?

These thoughts were fleeting, he picked up Liu Qingquan's coal shovel, and desperately shoveled coal into the furnace.

"Ninety, one hundred."

Li Aiguo calculated the speed of the train, the weight of the train, the tilt angle of the train, and the deflection angle of the wheels.

Pull down the brake valve on the front of the car suddenly.

The brake air duct sends compressed air to each auxiliary air cylinder to apply pressure to the brake shoes, and the brake shoes are pressed to hug the moving wheel to force the locomotive to brake. The wheels and rails rub against each other violently, bursts of sparks come out, and ear-piercing noises are emitted.

Under the effect of inertia, the fast-running car behind rushed towards the front of the car.

After a violent collision, the carriage was tilted high.

Only the brake head?
This does not change the tilt of the train, Cao Wenzhi's thoughts have not yet settled down.

Li Aiguo suddenly let go of the brake door on the front of the car and pulled up the brake door on the carriage.

Different from the air supply brakes on the front of the car, the brakes on the carriages use exhaust brakes.

The large brake quickly discharges the air pressure, the decompressed air cylinder recovers, and pushes the brake shoe to hug the wheel.

At this moment, Li Aiguo pulled up the brake valve on the front of the car again.

The car that just landed on the rails decelerated violently, and the front of the car was slightly displaced due to the drag of the car.

The inclination angle of the car was also slightly reduced because of the different braking force of the two brakes.

It's like a rope, in the process of pulling with two forces, it will deviate from the original position.

Could it be that Li Aiguo is trying to use the locomotive and the car to exert force on each other during the braking process, so that the train can return to the track!
Cao Wenzhi couldn't help but gasp.

As a veteran train driver with millions of miles, he knew this too, but it never occurred to him that he could do this.

Because the timing of the two valve pulls is too critical and too difficult to grasp.

Once there is an error in the timing of the two brakes, the train will lose control, and eventually the car will crash and people will die.

Therefore, in the driver's handbook, the locomotive depot stipulates that drivers are strictly prohibited from using the large gate and the small gate alternately.

Li Aiguo actually used this forbidden method to save the train that was about to overturn.

Cao Wenzhi came to his senses, and immediately picked up the coal with all his might, and filled it into the furnace.

Liu Qingquan, Master Zheng and Lao Mao didn't know how Li Aiguo did it, but they could clearly feel that the angle of inclination of the carriage became smaller.

Seeing hope, he started to shovel coal with more energy.

The only thing they can do now is to add some power to the train and relieve Li Aiguo's pressure.

As Li Aiguo operated the valve again and again, the tilt angle of the train gradually decreased.

　... The little white rabbit was knocked down by a piece of watermelon.

　　No watermelon on a rainy day...learn your lesson!
　　I can't hold on today.

　　I'll go to the hospital for a drip later.

　　Only this chapter left.

　　Sorry.

　　
　
(End of this chapter)