Wang Qi was not surprised when he heard that a group of wealthy people from Red Rock City had gathered to watch the railway construction.
Not to mention the immediate productivity, even in the industrial age, there will still be a lot of people watching when railway construction passes, but the purpose of the two is slightly different.
Preparations for the construction of the railway have been going on for a long time, and so far, not all problems have been solved. However, capturing Red Rock City in advance made Wang Qi decide to speed up the progress and solve some small problems slowly after they are applied.
In Wang Qi's view, the magic world has a very serious productivity limiting factor, which is that the level of personal force is too high.
A high level of force seems to be a positive factor, but only in terms of construction. On the other hand, the destructive power of high force will have a multiplier effect.
Taking the railway as an example, if a cat or dog passes by at random, several sections of the rail will be detached from the roadbed or even deformed.
High-tech integration also means high capital density. With the support of early blast furnace productivity, the capital density of railways is not too high. If it were an internal combustion engine production plant or an oil refinery with thousands of kilometers of pipelines, and a mage who casually ran into a few links and blew himself up, it could be said that the hard work of several generations would be lost in an instant.
Magic itself is a powerful productivity tool. He believes that as long as the world is big enough, it is impossible that there will be no mages who promote productivity. The world will stay at the current productivity level, which can only be related to safety.
This problem also has no solution for Wang Qi now, but he believes that he can find a way.
For example, simply turn all the territories under your control into forbidden magic areas!
It is not that easy for a single individual to destroy a large factory covering dozens of hectares with physical attacks. There is no time to call the security forces.
Of course, it's not possible yet.
Before that, railways needed to have speed limits, otherwise they would not be able to stop in time when they saw the faulty section ahead, and people could jump off the train to try their luck to survive. It would be more time-consuming to repair goods and broken rails if they were mixed together.
But I can only think about the speed limit in front of me. The industrial pearl is not so easy to control.
Not to mention the speed limit, the railway will be laid to Nanzhen soon, and there is not even a timetable now.
There are watches in the royal city. In addition to those brought by Wang Qi and others, there are also a small number of mechanical watches among the private sector. The problem is that they cannot be produced for the time being.
Moreover, even if a timetable is produced, it will not be very useful due to communication limitations. You have to see the station time before you can start the train in the opposite direction.
During the construction of the railway, there was a small thing that made Wang Qi happy - finally a blacksmith tried to build a machinery factory.
To put it mildly, a machinery factory is actually a larger-scale workshop that mainly produces ratchets, iron wheels, hand cranks, road spikes, etc. needed for railway bureau vehicles.
This large workshop was established by five blacksmiths after the blacksmiths received the first batch of orders for handcart parts.
In order to support the spontaneous construction of factories, the ironworks sent people to guide them in building their own steel-making furnaces. However, due to limitations of the technological level, the effect of carburizing in the furnaces was average, and a certain degree of subsequent manual work was still required.
Of course, there will not be trains carrying hundreds of thousands of tons on the railways at this stage, and the requirements for steel do not need to be so strict. Machinery factories can cooperate with iron factories to slowly improve the technology. If the direction is right, everything will be fine in the future.
They are not involved in the production of rails. They are mass-produced using the roller-rolling method. That is, two iron rollers are used to squeeze incandescent iron, and the strips of iron are squeezed out from the inside to become the rails.
The power is on the roller, or it is driven by human power. It is limited by the transmission efficiency and the quality of handmade steel. The work site is not far from the stick. One side is incandescent iron, and the other side is the liquid quenching mechanism of the shower head. The working environment is extremely harsh, and even if you work with a sharp blade for half an hour, you have to change shifts.
It is not difficult to improve the rail production environment, but Wang Qi has limited energy and will not spend too much time on such minutiae.
After more than two months of construction, the railway from Wangcheng to Nanzhen was finally completed.
After the railway is completed, it will not enter regular operation immediately. There will be a period of trial operation. The railway bureau will try its best to explore the most efficient combination of transportation under existing conditions.
Wang Qi decided to be lazy for a long time and took a ride in a hand-operated cart with Li Xiang. Because Li Xiang was famous enough, there were not many people who forced him to follow him, so he brought two top students from the garrison. The goods were Bai Xiaojiao and Some iron tools.
The first phase of the railway is a single-track track, from the inside of the city wall to the opposite city wall, a total of 26 kilometers. The rail standard used is 45 kilograms per meter. Two rails are laid in place. The total iron consumption is 3100 tons. The extra few hundred tons are road spikes. and the weight of the bifurcated loading and maintenance areas at both ends of the site.
The distance between the rails is 1.5 meters, which is much better than the standard rail 1435 in Wang Qi's previous life. The obsessive-compulsive disorder is ecstatic.
In fact, hand-operated railway cars cannot use such a wide track gauge. This is set for future upgrades.
The disadvantage of broad gauge is that the turning radius is larger. Wangcheng and Nanzhen are relatively straight. If expanded to all directions, the total length of broad gauge will be longer due to the need for turning.
Its advantage is that the vehicle is more stable during operation and helps increase the cargo weight.
A standard combination vehicle for two people and one bear, it is composed of a hand truck itself and a freight flatbed truck, and the connection is the famous James coupler.
The force strength of Zhan's coupler is far inferior to that of an iron chain. If it is made according to standard trains, it can withstand the pulling force of hundreds of carriages.
Of course, such a large pulling force is not needed now, but its other characteristics make Wang Qi have to get it out, and there is no need to make any detours.
The biggest advantage of this type of coupler is that it only uses four parts, two structural parts and two latches. It automatically locks when two vehicles collide, without manual operation. It only requires manual labor to pull out the latches when unlocking.
Don't look at it as just an action of pulling out a latch. It can save a lot of manpower when the railway is running, and the connection is safer, and there will be no situation where the front brake is behind the wheel.
The standard for the front handcart is also set by Wang Qi. The width is 3.3 meters and the length is not limited for the time being. It only has to be equipped with a rest area.
The reason why the width is limited is because this value directly affects railway safety. If we first use 3 meters wide and then change it to 3.3 meters, the entire railway safety process and railway guardrails will have to change accordingly. It is better to be troublesome now than to bother tossing it over and over again.
Of course, there are no guardrails at all now. This thing will be constructed from accident-prone areas as it is used.
The handcarts and pallet trucks were all open-top, and there were no special vehicles for Wang Qi. He didn't care much about it. Anyway, the person in front of him couldn't often ride in the car, so don't waste resources.
However, even if the railway bureau is attacked in a wave, the locomotives taken out will still be OK.
The front is driven by a four-person hand crank. Of course, this kind of physical work requires sharp blades. The Night Clan can use eight people.
There were two alternate players sitting very uncomfortably in front of Wang Qi and Li Xiang.
The entire rest area of this car is very large, with three rows and a total of twelve seats. It is to facilitate the railway bureau personnel to move to work stations, but it is only wooden chairs.
The cart at the back is almost eight meters long, with a small white corner lying on it. There is still a lot of space for stacking goods. There are no fixed chains, and the goods are not packed in crates, they are just piled together.
After the car started moving, Wang Qi looked back from time to time.
"What's so interesting about a bunch of hammers and chisels?" Li Xiang prefers to look at the scenery.
"I'll see when they roll down."
"Ah?" Li Xiang also started to look back frequently.
As a result, it did not fall because there were not many transported items and the edge of the stacking area was still some distance from the edge of the vehicle body. Several tools that rolled down did not fall successfully.
But it also shows that there are problems with the transportation method. Such small items still need to be crated, or changed to a regular box truck.
Let the railway bureau take care of it slowly. He is not a nanny.
When the vehicle arrived at Nan Town, they checked the operating status of various departments in Nan Town. Without doing anything, they just walked around and looked around. The four of them and one bear walked around and then returned.
There is no on-site pointing, which means nothing is wrong. There are now a few residents of Red Rock City in South Town staying for a long time. They seem to want to see how the railway's transport capacity is. They obviously want to make money.
Don't let them down too much, after all, Wangcheng also needs this kind of people to help enrich the product types.
