The train driver in the courtyard

Chapter 526 Improved forward locomotive, train driver Yang Yi

"If the water of the Yellow River and the bridge of the Yangtze River cannot be cured, they cannot be repaired."

This ballad represents the voice of the common people.

After liberation, in order to facilitate the people to cross the river and connect the two sides of the Yangtze River, the construction of the Wuhan Yangtze River Bridge was quickly put on the agenda.

Because the upper layer of the Wuhan Yangtze River Bridge is a highway bridge and the lower layer is a double-track railway bridge.

In addition, at that time, Rabbit did not yet have the title of infrastructure maniac.

Only the railway department has enough technicians and workers to complete such a difficult construction job.

Therefore, this task was taken over by President Teng who had just become the Minister of Railways in 1950.

In 1952, a bridge design office was established and a surveying and drilling team was dispatched to obtain first-hand information.

The Wuhan Yangtze River Bridge project has become a key project of the "First Five-Year Plan" and has received strong support from the people across the country.

After saying this, the old engineer became excited, and his thin cheeks trembled several times.

This kind of locomotive designed and produced independently in China is cheap, but it also has shortcomings, that is, insufficient stability.

Especially under heavy load conditions, the failure rate far exceeds that of foreign locomotives.

Mr. Mao, a well-known bridge expert, was appointed as the chairman.

Fortunately, Li Aiguo is now as familiar with the forward locomotive as his wife.

You must be very energetic and don’t give up your choice! "

Li Aiguo calculated it over and found that the car could still run for three days. He could use this time to teach Huang Jing some more practical skills.

After one year and three months, the Wuhan Yangtze River Bridge was miraculously completed, a full year ahead of schedule.

"Patriotic, the Wuhan Yangtze River Bridge is currently the most important and greatest project in the country. It is related to the overall situation of national construction and the development of the railway industry.

He also drives trains all year round and knows the flaws of forward locomotives better than ordinary researchers.

The forward steam locomotive produced by Datong Locomotive Factory is the most advanced steam locomotive in China.

The forward locomotive improvement project is composed of five researchers from the institute and 12 engineers from the Datong factory.

Duan Chang Xing's face turned red with excitement, and he patted Li Aiguo heavily on the shoulder.

(The forward locomotive was designed by the Dalian Locomotive Factory. After four prototypes were produced, the mass production task was handed over to the Datong Locomotive Factory. The last batch of forward steam locomotives were in service until December 2005, 12.)
Therefore, the ministry decided to improve a batch of forward steam locomotives to be used exclusively for crossing the Wuhan Railway Bridge to reduce the chance of train failure during operation.

He knew the parameters of a forward steam locomotive very well.

This arrangement made Li Aiguo breathe a sigh of relief.

The project location is located in the Railway Research Institute. After the transformation of the first prototype vehicle is completed, it will be directly transported from here to the Wuhan Yangtze River Bridge construction site for testing.

In April 1953, the Ministry of Railways established the Wuhan Yangtze River Bridge Engineering Bureau.

Because the total length of the bridge is 1670 meters, once a train gets stuck on the bridge, it will not only be difficult to repair, but will also cause serious negative renovation effects.

In addition, the forward-type locomotives that need to be modified are also being transported, so the modification work will only start next week.

At the same time, heavy-haul trains will also be dispatched to inspect the bridge.

This time I can not only contribute to the country, but also continue to have children. Life is so beautiful!

"Comrade Patriot, this is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity for us!"

As long as the task is enacted, there is no possibility of refusal.

He knows better that in this day and age, the task is bigger than the sky.

After returning to the locomotive depot.

The excitement on Dong Gong's face immediately disappeared when he heard this.

The committee is the technical advisory body for the bridge project.

On September 9, the Wuhan Yangtze River Bridge project started as a key project.

"The greater the honor, the greater the responsibility, Old Director." Li Aiguo reminded.

In 1955, President Teng chaired a meeting of the Wuhan Yangtze River Bridge Technical Advisory Committee.

It can be said that everything from the design to construction of the bridge is closely related to the railway department.

Li Aiguo told Duan Chang Xing about his participation in the Wuhan Yangtze River Bridge forward locomotive transformation project.

Of course, this is not a design problem. Most of the reasons are due to the substandard domestic materials.

In the following years, Soviet experts joined the project, and the bridge construction was progressed in an orderly manner.

Li Aiguo also knew this.

They have been married for more than a year and he has been busy outside most of the time. Although Chen Xueru has no complaints, it has affected the great cause of having children.

It is scheduled to be officially opened to traffic on October 15th this year.

It was the Railway Corps that undertook the construction of the Wuhan Yangtze River Bridge.

This is also the real reason why Liu Guozhang named Li Aiguo to participate in this task.

Because the engineers from Datong Factory have not yet come to the research institute.

Li Aiguo put his feet together and said with a serious face: "Commander, please don't worry, I will definitely not lose our front-door maintenance section person."

After speaking, he paused for a moment, rubbed his hands and said, "Logically speaking, I am on a mission this time. Shouldn't our section provide some assistance?"

Duan Chang Xing: "."

There was no way he could compare the current Li Aiguo with the righteous young man just now.

Money junkie, this guy is just a little money junkie.

It's just that this mission is too important. In addition, Duan Chang Xing felt that it was a bit too much to force Li Aiguo to have an apprentice a while ago.

He thought for a moment and said, "Well, your job subsidy will be doubled this month."

Train drivers can receive an additional five pounds of soybean sprouts and two pounds of refined white flour every month. This is called a job subsidy.

"That's it?"

"If you're not satisfied with this, how about I just give you the position of Duan Chang?" Duan Chang Xing pretended to be angry and made a sullen face.

"How can a section leader be as comfortable as me being a train driver?"

Li Aiguo took his wristband and hummed a tune and left the office with satisfaction.

2 pounds of white flour and 5 pounds of soybeans are a lot.

Especially soybean sprouts are valuable nutrients.

When I came to the supplies department, I happened to meet a group of drivers who were also receiving subsidies.

There were a few familiar faces in the driver group. Li Aiguo said hello casually and prepared to stand behind the team.

Huang Jing walked in from the outside and said with a smile: "Master, I just went to Duan Zhang's place to look for you, and I learned that you came out. I knew as soon as I guessed that you must have come to get something."

Most of the workers in the Qianmen Locomotive Depot are gay men, and the few lesbians sit in the section office.

Huang Jing, wearing a train driver's uniform, appeared like a flower popping up in the desert, immediately attracting the attention of the train drivers and stokers.

Everyone has heard that Li Aiguo has accepted a female apprentice.

The locomotive depot is a place where women act like men and men act like cattle.

As long as you get on the big train, there will be no second gender.

Who among the normal girls would be a train driver?
They originally thought that Huang Jing was a tall and thick woman with hair on her heart and a trembling Adam's apple, but they never expected that she turned out to be a delicate girl.

Seeing Huang Jing chatting with Li Aiguo in a soft voice, these big bosses suddenly felt a little bit disgusted.

Their apprentices are all rough men, and their voices are louder than gongs. How can they compare to such a beautiful girl.

Li Aiguo didn't care about those looks.

It was just a young man wearing a train driver's uniform who kept looking at Huang Jing. The lustful evil in his eyes could not be concealed.

Li Aiguo took a deep look at the man and turned to look at Huang Jing.

"You're still a disciple and you're smart enough. Is something wrong?"

"Master, Director Huang from the Education Department asked me to inform you that since you are about to go on a mission, you should give a lesson to the students of Sentie in the afternoon."

"Forest Iron."

Li Aiguo has never paid attention to the trainees since he brought them to the locomotive depot, and he really forgot about those people.

This was also an important task, and Li Aiguo nodded and agreed.

"Wait until I receive the subsidy first."

"Master, let me help you line up. You can rest on the chair next to you."

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It feels good to have an apprentice.

Li Aiguo didn't refuse. After handing the ticket to Huang Jing, he leaned on the chair and smoked comfortably.

His left leg was drooped on his right leg, and his toes trembled from time to time, which made people hate him so much.

The train drivers, stokers, and workers were all envious of Li Aiguo's good luck in meeting such a good apprentice.

"Oh, my apprentice is just a lump of wood. He doesn't even know how to pour tea every time." "Pouring water? My apprentice eats a lot. I give him half of the food at noon every day."

"Stop talking, my apprentice has a big appetite and is also a lump of wood."

Amid the envious discussions, a strange and sinister voice came over.

"By asking apprentices to queue up, Li Dache's behavior is exploiting his apprentices. It is no different from those trains before liberation!"

As soon as these words came out, the expressions of the train drivers and stokers suddenly changed.

Before liberation, train drivers especially liked to bully their apprentices.

If you want to learn to drive a train, apprentices must first feel comfortable with their master.

Serving tea, pouring water, and emptying the toilet are all trivial matters. In the winter, the master has to warm the bed and fan him in the summer.

Some train drivers are particularly bad.

At night, because he felt he was bitten by mosquitoes, he asked his disciple to strip naked and stand in the room so that he could sleep soundly next to him.

After liberation, everyone became equal. In order to break the old master-disciple relationship, the locomotive depot issued several notices asking train drivers to raise their ideological awareness.

Exploitation of apprentices must not occur in the locomotive depot.

With this big hat on, even if Li Aiguo doesn't shed his skin, it's almost the same.

Li Aiguo looked up and saw that it was the wretched man who made the accusation just now.

Master Zhang pulled the wretched man's arm: "Yang Yi, you are just helping to line up, what are you talking about!"

Yang Yi?

Is this guy the star driver who was on board train 2314? Li Aiguo's eyes narrowed slightly.

This guy has fair skin and decent facial features. He should be considered a decent person.

It's just that two buttons of his work clothes are undone, he wears protective leather shoes, and his trousers belt hangs diagonally on his shoulders. It seems that he can never put his trousers on, giving people a sloppy feeling.

Li Aiguo looked at Yang Yi, and Yang Yi was also looking at Li Aiguo.

He was transferred from the Harbin Locomotive Depot. While in the Harbin Locomotive Depot, he heard that an incredible train driver had appeared in the Qianmen Locomotive Depot.

Within more than a year after joining the Qianmen Locomotive Depot, I received continuous commendations from the Locomotive Depot and the labor union, and even participated in a New Year tea party.

Yang Yi is quite talented in driving trains and has been rated as an outstanding train driver in the Harbin Locomotive Depot for three consecutive years.

He thinks that his ability is no worse than that of Li Aiguo, but he is not so well-known in the railway system. The reason lies in the platform.

Although Harbin Locomotive Depot is a large locomotive depot, Harbin City cannot compare with Beijing.

If he could be in the Beijing locomotive depot, nothing would happen to Li Aiguo.

Yang Yi worked hard to transfer to the Qianmen Locomotive Depot through his relationship with his daughter-in-law's natal family, preparing to do a big career.

He does have some abilities, and he broke Li Aiguo's speed record just a few months after he started working.

He originally thought it would cause a sensation, but in the end, the train drivers opened and closed their mouths all because of Li Aiguo, which made Yang Yi feel a little depressed.

What's even more annoying is that after learning that Huang Dache's daughter is going to the locomotive depot to learn to drive a train.

Yang Yi applied several times to Duan Lili, who was Huang Jing's master, but Duan Lili rejected them all.

Duan Chang Xing clearly told him that the rectification of this matter was of great significance, and Huang Jing's master could only be the best train driver in the locomotive depot.

Yang Yi almost fainted when he heard this!

Isn’t Yang Yi excellent? !

Yang Yi was even more angry now that Huang Jing was so beautiful, so he couldn't hold it back for a while.

After being pulled back by Master Zhang, Yang Yi had already backed down when he saw the train drivers frowning.

But his eyes fell on Huang Jing's pink face, and a surge of anger surged into his heart. Yang Yi scratched his neck and said: "Forcing apprentices to line up is exploitation. Li Dache is an excellent train driver in our locomotive depot. He should be Set an example, but the result is so disappointing.”

Huang Jing had met Yang Yi several times before and had a bad impression of this person, so she didn't speak out immediately just now.

Now seeing Yang Yi slandering his master, he couldn't bear it anymore.

"Master Yang, I volunteered to help him line up, what does it have to do with you!"

Huang Jing's voice was as clear as a lark's call, even when she was angry, it was still so sweet.

The train drivers were shocked to the core, and they all accused Yang Yi.

"Xiao Yang, you are just meddling in other people's business. If Huang Jing is willing, you can do it."

"I see, this guy is just jealous of Li Dache."

"This kind of person still wants to be an excellent train driver!"

Yang Yi did not expect that the situation would become one-sided. When he was in the Harbin locomotive depot, both the workshop leader and the workers would protect him and let him go.

Now he is being criticized by everyone.

What was even more difficult for him to accept was Lao Fang and Xiao Zheng, who were the co-drivers and stokers of the 2314 driver team.

As comrades in a team, these two should be his brothers, but now they are standing by without saying a word.

There was a lump of air in his throat, Yang Yi's eyes darkened, and he almost fainted.

"Okay, okay, if you form a small group and exclude me, a foreign driver, I will go to the locomotive depot to file a complaint."

Hearing this, the train drivers burst into laughter and looked at Yang Yi like a clown.

Li Aiguo felt a sigh of relief in his heart. Yang Yi's skills were indeed pretty good among train drivers, but there was just something wrong with his brain.

Most railway workers have bad tempers, and frictions are inevitable during work.

The guys made an appointment in the woods outside the locomotive depot. You give me a fist, and I slap you, and we have a fist and kick fight.

The one who won the fight naturally let out a sigh of relief, and the one who lost the fight thought that he was not good at boxing and kicking, and he didn't look for any consequences.

After the competition, they were still good brothers who depended on each other for life and death at work.

Only those cowards will go to the leaders to complain.

It seemed that the officers from the Materials Department had also gathered around. They all laughed when they heard that Yang Yi was like a child and wanted to complain to his parents.

Those laughter were like sharp knives, peeling off Yang Yi's clothes, and he felt that he was standing here naked for everyone to see.

"You're going too far!" Yang Yi couldn't bear it anymore, stamped his feet, turned around and ran out of the Materials Department.

Lao Fang and Xiao Zheng, the drivers of train 2314, looked at each other and felt so embarrassed.

Lao Fang stepped forward, took out a cigarette for Li Aiguo, and said apologetically: "Li Dache, Xiao Yang is still young and ignorant. You must not argue with him."

Li Aiguo took the cigarette, laughed, and patted Lao Fang on the shoulder: "Lao Fang, it's really difficult for you to follow such a driver."

When mentioning this matter, Lao Fang's face was filled with grievances and he sighed.

"Who says it's not the case? Xiao Yang has been pursuing you to break your speed record these days. He often ignores safe driving regulations and grabs cars at the buzzer. I'm scared every time."

The train is started under the command of the dispatcher. Generally, the dispatcher will blow the whistle about two minutes in advance to give the train driver and co-driver enough time to prepare.

In order to save time, some train drivers prepare in advance to start the train after the whistle blows and increase the air pressure to the maximum.

In this way, the departure speed will be greatly accelerated.

The co-driver who is responsible for the lookout will be particularly stressed and may easily cause an accident if he is not careful.

This is a matter within the driver's team. It is considered a family scandal. It is difficult for me to talk to others about these matters.

"Thank you for your hard work, Lao Fang." Li Aiguo took out a cigarette and handed it to Lao Fang, and put his hands together to light it for him.

Li Aiguo is the banner of Qianmen Locomotive Depot and an advanced train driver.

In later generations, that would be a real star idol.

In the eyes of these drivers, co-drivers and stokers, they are almost like their own big brothers.

Seeing that Li Aiguo was very concerned about this matter, Lao Fang could no longer suppress his inner emotions. He took a few puffs of cigarette and continued: "The last time I drove to Shishi, when I was crossing a gate, a member of the commune pulled me A donkey cart walked right onto the railroad tracks.

The donkey was frightened by the train and ran wildly on the tracks, getting its hoofs stuck in the tracks.

The commune member also saw the train. He wanted to escape, but he couldn't let go of the donkey and wanted to pull the donkey's hooves out of the tracks.

At this time, the speed of the train is not high because it has just passed a turn, and there is enough braking distance.

I reported the situation at that time and asked Yang Yi to stop immediately!

Yang Yi just blew the whistle and did not give up.

I was stunned for a moment at first, although according to the regulations, as long as the whistle is pulled, even if someone is killed, our driver group does not have to take responsibility.

However, it is a living life.

I no longer cared about that much, rushed directly to the console, put down the emergency, and the train was able to stop.

After braking, I questioned Yang Yi for not braking.

This fellow actually told me that once the train brakes it takes a long time to pick up speed, so it is better to just crash and let the local switching station handle the rest. "

These things have been pressing in his heart for a while, like a big stone weighing him down.

Now that he had said it, Lao Fang felt relieved and his whole body felt much more relaxed.

(End of this chapter)