Since Zhao Xin and his team founded Beihai Town seven years ago, a large number of mechanical equipment from another time and space have emerged one after another, not to mention the two large iron ships of Thunder and Thunder. Now, although there are still new immigrants who are curious about the tractors in the fields and stand on the ridges to watch during spring and autumn harvest, most people no longer regard these machinery as monsters.

For example, Zhu Dagui and other village representatives who were invited to attend the train opening ceremony were no longer surprised by tractors, cars, and inland river sailing boats. Now when they saw the posters of the train, they were all shaking their heads and shaking their heads and then turned the focus of the discussion to the question of how fast this thing can run and how much things it can pull.

In Zhu Dagui's opinion, there are endless magic weapons in the men's pockets, and whatever they take out is a good thing, which is definitely of great use. Only Wang Zhong, Hong Liangji and others were shocked and pulled Chen Qingsong to ask questions, trying to explore the truth in order to prove it from the Confucianism.

Although Chen Qingsong can drive a tractor, he doesn't understand the train and can only fool these two people with the principle of steam engines.

In another time and space history, China's first officially operated railway was not the one outside Xuanwu Gate in the capital, but the Wusong Railway built by the British, with a total length of 14.5 kilometers. This line was finally operated for only one year, and was taken back by the Qing Dynasty, and then...and then it was demolished!

So some people said that the Qing Dynasty was corrupt and did not understand science, so they often did things like taking off their pants and farting.

In fact, this railway was secretly built by a British consortium headed by Jardinei and foreign affairs without telling the Qing court. The news reached Shen Baozhen, the governor of Liangjiang and the Minister of Trade in Nanyang, and he became anxious immediately.

In his opinion, the British built railways without telling the court, with the purpose of expanding their power, and doing so also violated the Qing Dynasty's right to go. In the future, other countries will follow suit and will inevitably not be able to do so, so they will be demolished no matter what.

After the Qing court discussed, they thought that Shen Baozhen's view was correct. However, they did not dare to act arrogantly with the British, so they had to buy it back for 285,000 taels of silver and warn them in disguise by dismantling them.

In 1881, the Tangxu Railway, which was under the supervision of the construction and was completely controlled by itself, was officially opened to traffic.

As for the so-called destruction of Feng Shui during the railway construction in the late Qing Dynasty, the reason behind it was either that the people took the opportunity to cause trouble because of less money from land acquisition, or the dispute over the interests of conservatives and reformists in the court.

Throughout history, no one is stupider than anyone else.

After all the people from Beihai Town arrived, the opening ceremony officially began at 8:30 in the morning. First, Zhao Xin went to the stage and braddled it, which took 15 minutes. Then Chen Qingsong, Zhao Liang and others came to the stage to speak one after another, including a foreman who was a refugee from Henan.

What? You ask the island workers? There is no share in this kind of occasion, and the officials from the Tokugawa Shogunate stationed in the town of Kitakai, simply disagree.

According to the other party's explanation, it is very rude to let the ignorant of the word "Bitmin" on the same stage as the Zhaowangdian in Beihai Town. If you say the wrong thing, the beheading is a small matter and lose the face of the shogunate, it is a big deal. Maybe it will be passed to Edo, and you will have to have a caesarean section and apologize.

In another time and space, Zhao Xin occasionally attended several ceremonial ceremonies, mainly to take the opportunity to build relationships. He usually looked at himself with concentration, and silently greeted the families of those long-loving commentators. Unexpectedly, the feng shui has changed, and now he has become a member of Brabra, but he doesn't know if anyone is also sending a cordial "greetings".

Speaking of ceremonies, it was definitely new to the ancients in the 18th century, but to the time travelers, it was the foot binding of the old lady. So, two power plants did not attend the opening ceremony at all, but ran to the locomotive section.

To them, the steam train is much more interesting than Mr. Zhao's long-term discussion.

However, when two power plant members passed the inspection post with their chest passes and fingerprints, they hurried to the color steel tile greenhouse in the locomotive department, and saw that the steam locomotive was not smoking at all. The two of them couldn't help but mutter.

"Why hasn't the fire been lit yet?"

"Is there something wrong?"

"What happened to this, Boss Zhao is so embarrassing."

Speaking of which, the ignition of a steam locomotive is usually made of firewood and large pieces of coal. When the water pressure in the boiler meets the requirements, it can be delivered to air and drive. However, this method takes too long. From ignition to driving, it takes at least five or six hours, and the slowest is seven hours.

Just like this today, the train will be launched at 10 a.m., so the fire box must be ignited at two or three o'clock in the evening.

However, the scene that appeared before the two power plants was that the old railway man named Sun Zhenyong, who was fooled by Zhao Xin, was taking several students from the railway technical school, and installing something on the outside of the car body.

Since 1789, the Beihai Town Railway Construction Committee has opened a railway technical branch in Boli, which is affiliated with the Beihai Town Technical School, specializing in training railway technical workers.

There are many stations in life. For hundreds of thousands of refugees from Daoqing, the emergence of Beihai Town led to a major turning point in their lives. The emergence of railway schools also meant a new beginning for some of them. More than 800 young people changed from peasants to members of the working class.

Several teachers from the Railway Technical School were all old railway workers invited from another time and space, and their average age was over 60 years old. Zhao Xin talked to them about a five-year contract. After teaching the first batch of students, he would be the task to be completed for two years. Then, depending on the personal situation, he would consider whether to retain them.

Boli Locomotive Section has four major workshops for operation, maintenance, equipment and fuel, and two return sections, four locomotives. There are currently 500 apprentices who have not graduated. Because there are few vehicles, each car consists of 12 people, and three people are in one shift.

It is not easy to become a train driver in Beihai Town. You must go through four stages: school, apprenticeship, furnace, and deputy driver, and at least one year of experience and exams before you can get promoted to a driver. Overall, it will take as long as five years.

This chapter is not finished yet, please click on the next page to continue reading the exciting content below! According to the suggestions of several masters, after a year of theoretical study, students in Railway Technical School must enter a two-year semi-working and half-study period. After a combination of theory and practice, they can only be converted to a formal furnace after graduation. They must work for at least one year before they are qualified to take the deputy driver, and the deputy driver can only take the driver for another year.

Therefore, if you want to be a locomotive driver in Beihai Town, you have to be as fast as five years. You have to burn three years of fire and do a year of mechanical oil polishing work to be qualified.

This kind of learning method has actually been a force to grow. According to the opinions of those masters, it will take at least seven years from an apprentice to a driver. Drivers and deputy drivers must not only understand practical operation, but also the construction principles of the locomotive, fault analysis and maintenance, technical rules, transportation rules, and signals. Fortunately, the northeast is vast and the population is sparse, and the demand for technical talents is urgent, which gives those apprentices room to perform in advance.

Considering the level of apprentices, currently those who operate locomotives are time travelers, and only some apprentices who have learned very well are qualified to swing a large shovel to burn a boiler.

"Master Sun!" The two of them walked closer and greeted Sun Zhenyong.

"What are you two?"

Although they had met each other at the welcome meeting before, Sun Zhenyong, except for Zhao Xin and others, could not remember who was who? Besides, the thermal power plant is in the Bufrozen Port, nearly a thousand kilometers away from Boli, and there is no contact at all.

"My name is Yu Xiaolei, he is Fu Bin. We are from the thermal power plant. We are here to attend the opening ceremony today."

"Oh, then why did you two come here?"

"The leader's speech is really boring, come and take a look." While speaking, Yu Xiaolei took out a cigarette from his pocket, took out one and handed it over, and asked, "The motorcycle hasn't been lit yet?"

Sun Zhenyong took the cigarette and stopped it in his ears without looking at it. He said indifferently: "What's the hurry? I can't delay it."

Yu Xiaolei knew that these masters were all very angry, so he pointed to a long iron pipe extending out of the outside of the car body and asked, "What are you busy with? What are the iron pipes used for?"

"The one who sends air to the locomotive boiler is connected to the boiler."

After Sun Zhenyong said that, he pointed to the end of the iron pipe. Only then did the few people see a boiler standing on the concrete floor more than ten meters away from the railway tracks. Two apprentices were connecting the iron pipe to the exhaust port of the boiler.

Yu Xiaolei's position in the power plant is the deputy driver of the steam engine, mainly responsible for the start, shutdown and maintenance of the steam turbine. After thinking about it, he asked: "Are you going to use an external boiler to supply air and pressurize the front boiler, do you need to use a series of gas ignition method?"

Sun Zhenyong looked at the other party with a little surprise and asked, "Do you still know how to ignite the fire?"

Yu Xiaolei said: "I am responsible for steam turbines in the power plant. I have read the introduction online before."

The two of them said nothing. After a while, the fixed boiler on the other side had already been connected. Sun Zhenyong stopped talking, checked the seal at the connection, confirmed that there was no problem, and opened the valve to start air supply.

At the beginning, the air valve was not fully opened, until he asked his apprentice to check that there was no air leakage at the connections at both ends of the iron pipe, and then the valve was opened to the maximum. At the same time, another master named Qu Yongmin was guarding the driver's room at the front of the car, staring at the pointer of the boiler gas pressure gauge.

"Master District, how much does the air pressure need to be increased?"

Fu Bin, who came with Yu Xiaolei, has now entered the driver's room. Although he is thin, the problem is that the driver's room is not big, and there is a furnace steward standing there.

"It's enough to have five or six kilograms! It's for air supply."

Fu Bin looked around curiously. This was the first time he entered the driver's room. He noticed that on the right side of the air pressure gauge, there was a long, round thing with two ends, half red and half white, and a thick piece of glass covered with it.

"Is this a water meter?"

"Um."

“How much water does this need to be added?”

“A quarter.”

Qu Yongmin was in a good mood today, so he didn't shy his face when he saw Fu Bin coming in. If it were normal, his nose would have been no longer a nose, and his face would have been no longer a face. However, the other party asked something like a curious baby, which made him a little impatient.

"Master, just take a look and go down. I will spray fuel into the fire box later. You can't fiddle with it."

Fu Bin had heard of this bad temper and knew it was not easy to mess with. He nodded quickly and turned around and got out of the car. When his feet fell to the ground, he saw four apprentices pushing a small flat car to the outside of the driver's room, and there was a large gasoline barrel standing on the car.

But strangely, holes were opened on both sides directly opposite the gasoline barrel, and joints were installed, connected to two rubber hoses that were more than 20 meters long. One of the hoses was connected to an iron pipe that was more than 2 meters long, and there was a valve on it.

Fu Bin asked Sun Zhenyong: "Master Sun, what is this?"

"Oil tank! It is used for injecting oil and ignition."

"Where is this iron pipe?"

"spray gun."

While talking, two apprentices dragged a long hose to the train's lobe, connecting the hose and the brake tube. Yu Xiaolei and the others also came to the front of the car, watching the people operating intently.

Fu Bin couldn't help asking, "What are you doing?"

A sweaty apprentice clamped the connection and explained, "Sir, we are connecting the main air cylinder, and then..."

Yu Xiaolei suddenly said: "Put the pressure in the oil tank?"

"Yes, sir."

"Oh~~~I understand!"

Fu Bin asked, "Leizi, what do you understand? What are they doing?"

Yu Xiaolei explained: "I have read the introduction online before, saying that in addition to burning wood and coal, the method of ignition of steam trains is also a kind of gas ignition method. Look, the flat-bottomed truck is equipped with an oil barrel, which connects the main air cylinder and pushes the compressed air into the tank. The iron pipe connected to the other end becomes a high-pressure spray gun, which can spray the oil in the barrel into the fire box. Previously, Master Sun used a boiler to supply air and pressurize the boiler at the front of the truck, so that there is no need to wait for the boiler to pressurize. With pressure, the air supply can work and can be ignited directly."

Fu Bin said thoughtfully: "Do you think this is the same as the flamethrower?"

Yu Xiaolei smiled and said, "The meaning is almost the same. Although it is April now, it is cold outside the pass. If you use firewood and coal blocks to ignite it, it will take at least six or seven hours to wait until the boiler pressure is enough. It is even more troublesome in winter. Before the fire can burn, the water in the boiler will freeze. So, ignition is the most suitable."

Fu Bin suddenly realized: "Oh~~~"

When Sun Zhenyong, who was standing by, heard this, he said with approval: "Xiao Yu, you can!"

At this time, a thin layer of fuel mixed with crushed coal and coal powder had been evenly laid in the fire box in the driver's room. When Qu Yongmin saw that the number on the pressure gauge had reached 500 kPa, he came to the door and shouted outside.

"Give me the coal!"

"Here you come!"

As soon as he finished speaking, a young apprentice walked quickly with a shovel in his hands. In the shovel, there were a few large pieces of coal that had been burned red.

He came to the door of the driver's room, saw the position, and drew a quarter circle with his arms. The head of the shovel containing coal-fired shovel fell steadily in front of the driver's room. As he pushed the shovel forward, the apprentice responsible for burning the boiler had already taken the shovel into his hand.

The movements of the two of them are smooth and seamless, and they can be seen as the result of practicing thousands of times.

When the boiler put the large piece of coal into the fire box, he hurriedly dodged, and then it was Qu Yongmin's turn to come on. He held the simple spray gun made of iron pipes and came to the front of the fire box and lowered his waist, saying, "Changshun, I'll open the air supply later. Remember, don't drive too big at the beginning."

"Remember, Master."

Qu Yongmin aimed the spray gun at the pieces of coal burning in the fire box and opened the wrench valve at the end of the iron pipe. Soon, a scattered and tiny oil column sprayed out from the spray gun.

The oil in the flatbed oil drum is specially used for the axle oil of the railway locomotive bearing shell. The ignition point is 180 degrees. When it falls on the red coal block, the fire suddenly becomes bigger. Seeing this, Qu Yongmin shouted: "Open the air supply!"

"Why!"
To be continued...