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Chapter 711 Heavy Haul Railway (First update, please subscribe)
Of course, Li Yi'an, who was inspecting the United States, knew nothing about the "care" from that loving steel father.

During the inspection in Seattle, Li Yian even learned about Boeing's jetliner project when he visited Boeing's factory. But at this time... well, Boeing has not really started the project yet.

Even when Li Yian asked this question, the CEO of Boeing was a little confused.

In fact, even if Boeing was inspired by the "Comet" airliner and began to develop a jet airliner, it would still take two years from the early research plan to the launch of the project. In other words, Nanyang's "707 Project" is now the only one in the world, no, it should be the only three jet passenger projects that are being promoted. One is carrying out test flights and demonstrations with great enthusiasm, symbolizing the advancement of the British Empire. The most productive "Comet" passenger aircraft, while the other two... are both from Nanyang, one is a 707 and the other is a 717.

In the development of jet airliners, Nanyang is really far ahead!
However, Li Yi'an is not satisfied with this. After all, before the aircraft has been tested and put into actual use, all projects are "PPT" projects, the kind that are not worth mentioning.

After leaving Seattle, Li Yi'an went to Los Angeles again. Although it was the same as the last time, Hollywood tycoons once again warmly received him. It was here that he reunited with an old friend again - Jane Adele.

However, her stage name has now become Marilyn Monroe.

Since it was a reunion with old friends, it was necessary to have a long talk, so after the banquet, Monroe came to Li Yian's room again.

We were all friends, we just talked all night long. That's all. In fact, there were other choices, but people are always nostalgic.

Two days later, Li Yian, who had finished his visit to the United States, finally embarked on a journey back to Nanyang. However, after flying from Hawaii to Dongning, Li Yian did not return to Chang'an as soon as possible, but went to Australia.

In Australia, he has an estate. No, it should be Margaret's estate.

Although the land rights in the Pilbara region have now been transferred to Margaret, and development began later, after the Whaleback Mountain Iron Mine was developed, faced with this iron mine with reserves of billions of tons, the capital of various countries was at a loss. Not a burst of jealousy.

But jealousy is jealousy, and capital is still self-aware. After all, the land in this area is the property of Princess Margaret of the British Empire, and no one dares to seize it from the tiger's mouth.

But they still voted with their feet. After multiple iron mines were discovered in the Pilbara region, capital soon voted with their feet. A large number of British-funded related companies settled in Perth and began exploration and development in Western Australia. Over the past few years, the influx of capital into Western Australia has even outstripped the traditionally more favored East Australian region.

It is precisely because of the crazy influx of capital that Western Australia has successively discovered large-scale copper mines, gold mines, coal mines and other mineral resources. As the initiator, Li Yian certainly knows where the real source is.

"This is Whaleback Mountain!"

Standing on Jingbei Mountain, looking at the large mine carts driving on the open-pit mine, Li Yi'an couldn't calm down for a long time. In another world, the pain of iron ore has always restricted China's steel industry.

But Nanyang is even worse than China - there are only a few poor iron mines with low content in the mainland. Therefore, since the development of the Whaleback Mountain iron mine, it has become the source of raw materials for Nanyang's steel industry.

"Your Excellency, Whaleback Mountain Iron Ore is a rare high-quality iron ore in the world. Its average grade exceeds 70%. It can even be put directly into the blast furnace without magnetic separation, and its output is large. The current output of the mine is limited to two One is Nanyang’s demand for ores, and the other is shipping capacity. If the shipping capacity is sufficient, it can even be exported to the United States. "

Although the land in this area, including the Pacific Mining Company, nominally belongs to Margaret, she only came here a few years ago. The management of the company has always been under the responsibility of Anderson Witt, who is a typical British man. People have their own unique ideas about mining operations.

"Is it a railway?"

Li Yian asked.

Before the development of the Whaleback Mountain Iron Mine, there was no railway in Western Australia at all. Because the iron ore was located inland, a railway needed to be built to transport the ore. This railway was also invested by Pacific Railroad.

"Yes, the current transportation has reached the bottleneck. Western Australia's iron ore and coal need to be transported through this railway. Although we have increased the frequency of flights, in the future, we need to add repair lines to Meet transportation needs.”

"Double-tracking, well, this is very necessary. In the future, hundreds of millions or even hundreds of millions of tons of iron ore, coal and other minerals may need to be transported here every year. However, just relying on double-tracking is not enough."

After thinking about it, Li Yian said,
"The company can work with the Railway Technology Research Institute to study heavy-haul railways and find ways to improve train transport capacity, yes, that is, heavy-haul railways." "Heavy-haul railways?"

Anderson asked with some confusion.

“What is heavy haul rail?”

"Heavy-haul railways are very simple. They are trains with a total weight and axle weight that carry bulk cargo. How should I put it? It is to increase its transportation capacity by increasing the power and carriages of the train. In the past, a train could only transport 3000 tons. By It may even be possible to transport tens of thousands of tons..."

In another world, heavy-haul transportation originated in North America more than ten years later. At that time, the American coal train was 6500 meters long, weighed 44000 tons, and consisted of 6 locomotives and 500 carriages. In the 99734st century, the world record for a heavy-haul train towing a total weight of tons was set on Australia's Mount Newman to Headland heavy-haul railway.

By the mid-to-late 54000th century, heavy-haul trains had become the most common basic technology. For example, the largest first-class railway company in the United States, the Union Pacific Railway Company, which has 14900 kilometers of railways, has an average traction weight of all its trains of tons! It can be said that overloading has basically been fully realized.

Of course, China is not bad either. China has the longest single heavy-haul railway in the world, the Daqin Railway, with a designed annual transportation capacity of 4.5 million tons. However, within a few years of reaching the designed transportation capacity, it only used million tons. The annual transportation volume of tons has successfully set a world record for heavy-haul railways.

After briefly explaining the principles of heavy-haul railway, Li Yian said.

"The company can cooperate with the Railway Technology Research Institute to study the overloading of railways. This is also a very important technology. If it succeeds, the technology can be exported in the future."

It is indeed possible to export technology. After all, heavy-duty railways are the future development direction. Perhaps Nanyang, which is surrounded by seas, does not rely on railway transportation, but it can be exported to the United States, Europe, South Africa, Brazil and other countries.

Nanyang cannot become a major railway country, but it is not impossible to become a major railway technology country!
In fact, this is the difficulty of Nanyang. It is limited by territory and natural environment. No matter how hard we try, there will be many restrictions. For example, railways, no matter how much they are built, are not as strong as ships, but honestly It is also a good choice to become a technologically powerful country with advanced research technology.

Who said that if a country doesn’t have many railways, it can’t be a country with strong railway technology?

In the next few days, Li Yian inspected Pacific Mining's copper mines and coal mines in Western Australia. These mines were commercially acquired by the company. The reason why those British capitals were willing to sell them was because... the railway was owned by Pacific Mining Company. , if they wanted to develop it, they would build the railway themselves, so those companies finally chose to cooperate with Pacific Mining Company and jointly develop it by selling mining shares.

This also allowed Pacific Mining Company to monopolize the mining industry in Western Australia. It was not a monopoly, but a cooperative development.

Of course, if those people refuse to cooperate in development, then the railway company will definitely refuse to transport their goods.

Of course, things must not be done so obviously. Railway companies will only use another method - increasing freight.

They could even increase the freight to something close to the price of building a railroad.

In this situation, everyone knows what choice to make.

Therefore, in the end everyone will happily choose to cooperate with Pacific Mining Company.

It's all voluntary.

Lamenting the active cooperation of the British and American capitalists, Li Yi'an was lamenting his own advantages at the moment.

"This is the benefit of first-mover advantage! We must firmly seize this advantage in the future."

(End of this chapter)