Can you survive it?
This question is difficult to answer.
The person most qualified to answer the question should be the butler of Lord Dok of Blackwater City, Grand Steward Estelle. The newly-entered Elte City has not yet connected to the train, so naturally it is impossible to know what it is like.
In the beginning, the general manager only made comments like "too much money to burn" and "fool" for things like railways. The "fool" part was quickly removed, but it did not hinder his expression of the capabilities of the railway. question.
This thing seems to be profitable, and the general manager has made up his mind long ago. Although he adheres to the principle of "the more you know, the sooner you die," the railway operation itself is not a project that can be kept secret.
There are two inspection trains on the railway section from Junction to Heishui every day. In the past, these two trains passed through in the morning and evening. Later, after lights were installed, they were changed to the early morning and after nightfall.
The inspection car does not transport cargo, and its speed is much lower than that of ordinary trains. If there are problems such as the rails being moved or the ballast sinking, a light wooden track hand car will be separated from the inspection car to notify the two stations respectively.
No vehicle is allowed to depart while the inspection vehicle is on the track, and three hours must be set aside for them every day.
In addition, the railway also has inspection personnel, and there are about 100 people on the section from the intersection to Heishui, which is more than 40 kilometers long.
There are also many people at each station who specialize in transportation accounting. They calculate mileage fees based on various materials, whether they are transported on a regular basis for a long time, and other conditions.
The general manager helped calculate the cost of these logistical tasks. In fact, there was no money to be made from the railway mileage fee. If the cost of railway paving and guardrails on both sides of the railway were included, it would be a pure loss.
However, the railway bureau has a subordinate logistics department, which will transport some goods by itself, and probably make some profits. All in all, it is only a small profit.
After spending a lot of effort to make a small amount of money, the chief manager really couldn't figure it out.
But after the train appeared on the railway, the general manager finally realized that he was wrong. The gap between manpower and trains cannot be measured in miles. The railway must be aimed at the trains from the beginning.
The top speed of the two hand-cranked trucks with eight stations at the front for transporting more than 20 tons of cargo is about the same as that of a train, but its acceleration and deceleration are extremely slow. The total distance between departure and arrival at the station is estimated to be seven to eight kilometers. The train transports 200 tons of cargo. The total length of acceleration and deceleration is still controlled within five kilometers, which means that the actual transportation capacity of one train exceeds that of ten hand trucks. Taking into account the processes of train formation, the efficiency gap will be even greater.
The general manager is not very clear about the specific utilization rate, but after the train is put on the road, it is roughly estimated that the annual freight volume of the railway may be more than one million tons.
million tons!
!
The chief steward has lived for most of his life, and he doesn't dare to count silver coins in millions, but others end in tons!
Based on this capacity, the Phoenix King's entire garrison could be transferred to Blackwater from Phoenix City or the outskirts of other cities in one day.
One day is not even enough to wake up the lord army under him! And it's useless to wake up. Blackwater City is not a force that relies on soldiers to fight, but relies entirely on Lord Dok's personal intimidation.
This realization made the Grand Steward extremely painful, and he did not dare to tell Lord Dok. With Lord Dok's temper, once he spoke out, he might have to single-handedly go to the Phoenix King for a duel. I don’t know whether the Phoenix King will win with a pick or not, but he probably won’t give Doc a chance to fight in a duel. The change of ownership of Blackwater City is just around the corner.
While the train has greatly escalated the security crisis in Blackwater City, it has also brought new development opportunities.
Appearing on the railways a little later than trains, the Railway Administration introduced standard containers, seemingly at the behest of the special envoy.
The whole thing is made of good steel!
Standard containers are divided into two sizes: long and short. The new flatbed truck can hold two short boxes or one long box in one section.
It’s one thing that the boxes are made of luxurious materials, but what’s even more striking is that the size of the containers is inconsistent with the original railway standards.
Previously, the width limit for trains and goods on the railway was 3.3 meters, but the newly launched standard containers have an outer width of only 2.5 meters. I heard from the Railway Bureau that this is the future road transportation standard.
After much deliberation, the chief manager didn't think that other than the great magician, there was no other species that could drag this thing on the road.
This thing is not ready to go on the road now. The change it brings to Blackwater City is the improvement in the efficiency of cargo loading and unloading.
When there was only one train, the Railway Bureau built an all-steel pulley spreader at Blackwater Station. At first, it was thought that there was no room for the steel, but now it seems that it was prepared for containers.
The pulley spreader uses both human power and animal power. The animal power is responsible for the heavy work in one direction. The workbench is a bit like a millstone, larger in size, and two oxen can be yoked to four. The manpower side is like the windlass used to draw water from wells. Two people operate one, and a crane has two sets of these.
The new pulley spreader uses special locks at the four corners of the top surface of a standard container to transport a box of goods directly from the truck to the cargo yard. Before that, I had to work on the car for half a day and had to divide the unloading area into four parts.
Nowadays, the transportation capacity is greater, but it saves time. The standard containers are in the cargo yard, with the door open to the outside, and the customer number is posted on the door. Each merchant can find his own container, ask the staff to stamp the cargo order number, and take the goods away.
Some businessmen use the double-ox tractor that they learned from Fenggu before and modified it to transport the entire short container directly. However, those who transport the boxes need to pay for the boxes themselves.
The station is still so big because the loading and unloading efficiency has increased several times due to the emergence of containers.
The larger volume of goods drives prices down, attracting more and more merchants, caravans, and firms. Recently, the General Manager has been reluctant to collect transaction taxes.
But it's not all a good thing. The iron from the own iron factory cannot be sold.
To be honest, the general manager is very concerned about the iron factory in Blackwater City. After all, it is the place where a thousand laborers go, and it is related to the livelihood of hundreds of families. If these strong laborers can't work, trouble may occur.
Previously, due to the railway, the profits of our own iron factory had dropped again and again. If the general manager had not taken care of it, the per capita iron production was not bad, and we would have lost money long ago.
What happened to the iron factory this time was very strange. The general manager had never heard of such a thing since he was a child - because the merchants' transportation capacity could not transport more things to other directions, so they did not want iron no matter how cheap it was. Only when it comes to finished products will we consider whether they are cheap enough.
Estelle also sent people to inquire on the business road, but it turned out that there was no need to inquire at all.
In addition to the north direction in Blackwater City, there are two relatively wide roads and two narrow roads heading south. These four roads are all blocked, and there are all kinds of fights between cattle, camels and beasts of caravans going north and south.
Maybe the road that could originally carry thousands of tons of cargo in and out a day, uu Reading, has a lower capacity because of too many caravans and the road is congested.
After receiving the news, the general manager suddenly realized, would Blackwater City also want to build a railway to other places?
Maybe the Phoenix King's original construction of the railway had little to do with trains, but it was because there were too many railways and too cheap and there was no place to go?
But is the railway easy to build?
If you think about it carefully, the threshold for this thing is actually quite high.
The rails of the Railway Bureau are 20 meters long. I heard that they are made so long to prevent bandits. To put it bluntly, it is quite difficult to make them so long and ensure quality.
Soon the chief manager stopped worrying about the railway, because his subordinates saw a car coming from the north and pulled him to watch.
The general manager's intelligence was online. When he saw this car, he realized that his company had a way out.
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