Foreign trade is insufficient to meet domestic demand. This is something Wang Qi learned in his previous life.
After the floating island became a floating island, the transportation capacity almost dropped to zero. There was some improvement after the aviation bureau came on board, but the effect was also very limited. Because the aviation bureau needs to ensure the safety of aircraft and personnel, it can only have a certain degree of friendliness in docking and can accept a small number of city defense troops stationed locally. Cities and regions in China are also required to have certain local protection capabilities for routes.
Many demands require a long diplomatic cycle to rebuild the market size, and actual transport capacity is also limited by the number of aircraft and pilots.
At this stage, maintaining production capacity still depends on domestic demand.
This domestic demand cannot be for personal consumption. On the one hand, there are not enough people, on the other hand, the industrial chain is not perfect, and consumer goods are still relatively lacking.
Therefore, just like the reason for building the railway track in the first place, after the plate took off, the Railway Bureau started the geological exploration phase of the ring-plate railway in accordance with Wang Qi's order.
However, the internal growth of the plate made the previous geological exploration work useless and had to stop. A few days ago, the plate stopped and exploration was resumed.
Because of the production characteristics of trains, the General Locomotive Factory could not wait. It helped the automobile factory to increase production capacity for a while, and it was tossing around with diesel locomotives.
Counting only diesel locomotives, there are only 7 in total in the whole territory, but there are thousands of carriages.
The original railway was a twisting north-south double-track single line. After the loop line is changed, the Wind Valley and Dark Land blocks will become "∞" shapes. There are many outsiders' territories in the Pangxun Block. Ignore them for the time being. There are only two. The sector needs at least fifteen to eighteen train heads to ensure a certain arrival frequency.
It's just that it's not that difficult for diesel locomotives to shift sectors.
The original Benz Type 1 has a power of 2,200 kilowatts, which is almost 3,000 horsepower (calculated as 735 watts), and an empty weight of 85 tons. The original ropeway can only be hoisted in splits.
However, even if the 85-ton locomotive is dismantled, it will still weigh more than ten tons. Off-site assembly is extremely difficult and requires a special assembly workshop with a crane spreader.
This problem caused great headaches for factory director Benci and the workers.
Only after actually seeing it did I realize that it was not just a problem with the workshop, but also a problem with how to move those huge things on the front of the car from the cableway platform to the workshop.
Then after the assembly is completed, the front of the car needs to go directly onto the track. This track connecting the workshop will limit the orientation of the assembly workshop. Of course, the track can also be made more complicated and occupy a larger area to accommodate the curved track.
Anyway, it was very difficult, so I formed a small group to squat on the red stone every day to study the suitable location.
In fact, it’s not suitable anywhere.
The place where the two plates are disconnected is not flat land, but a mountainous area with a certain slope. Although the slope is not very large, to pull down the twenty-meter-long frame of the locomotive front, the truck's semi-trailer must be redesigned. The semi-trailer has its own power and brakes, otherwise it would be too dangerous.
Fortunately, the exploration work for the railway around the floating island has been stuck, and the Locomotive and Locomotive Factory is not in a hurry. While maintaining communication with the automobile factory for preliminary research, it is also working on the problem on its own, trying to shorten the front of the locomotive.
Their diesel locomotives have a cab, engine room, water tank area, and personnel rest area from front to back.
The existing personnel rest area of the Benz I is a mixed lounge, including the driver, lookout and two additional lounges with upper and lower bunks, which can be used by both passengers and armed cargo. ….
The shortening of the personnel rest area can reduce the length by three meters, but the length of the vehicle is still over 22 meters despite these three meters reduction.
We can only find a solution from the computer room.
The engine room needs to replace the engine.
In fact, the first thing that the Locomotive and Locomotive Factory was working on was the V-type engine. However, due to poor reliability at high power, it was eliminated by two in-line eight-cylinder engines.
The project has continued, and a 2,200-kilowatt V16 is now in use.
The V16 inline also has eight cylinders. The shape of the cabin area has changed from a single corridor of "｜】[｜" to a double corridor of "｜[]｜". The change in length is relatively limited.
If you want to reduce the power, you have to talk to the railway bureau.
The Railway Bureau was idle and sent a bunch of technicians responsible for locomotive maintenance to join in the fun.
There are many people with many ideas, and some useful opinions have indeed been put forward.
For example, if a V-type engine is modified, will the area in the middle of the engine room be wide enough to place bunk beds horizontally? Just make two capsule-style horizontal nests for the driver and lookout, which saves half the length of the compartment.
Also, since the V-shape is in the middle of the car, with access to both sides, is it possible to hang the water tank outside the car? After all, there is an aisle between it and the engine, and there is no risk of a cylinder explosion.
The railway bureau changed the standards once, and the width limit of the locomotives was increased from 3.3 meters to 3.4 meters. This means leaving 70 centimeters of aisles on the left and right sides. There is indeed still two meters of width in the middle to fit a capsule room, but 2 meters plus partitions, The length is more worrying, and it is not friendly to some drivers.
And from the driver’s perspective, sleeping directly in front of a 2,200-kilowatt engine would be too exciting!
But moving the water tank forward is really good.
The 2200 kilowatt V16 is not as wide as two meters. It contains some emergency functions and cooling pipes, which are about 1.6 meters. If the channels on both sides are deducted, the side wall can indeed integrate two water tank walls with a width of less than 20 centimeters, and it will not even The sandbox pipes that go down from the roof of the car can also serve as a buffer layer to prevent the disaster from expanding in the event of an explosion.
Next, redesign the fuel tank structure and shorten it a bit.
But still only a little.
The real solution is to change the V12 and reduce two cylinders longitudinally. The explosion power is reduced. In addition, the length of the cylinder can be reduced by almost 1.5 meters.
This is a bit of a peek at the blind spot of the motorcycle factory. Their research on V12 may not be as good as that of the automobile factory.
It can be done, but the power loss exceeds a quarter, the prototype test power can only reach 1600 kilowatts, and the reliability is not as good as the V16 version.
Both the V16 and V12 engines were subjected to endurance tests under the supervision of Railway Bureau personnel. The results were not surprising. Because the V12 stopped twice during the endurance test, the Railway Bureau decided to use the V16 version.
Then the Railway Bureau began to step up manufacturing. The locomotive engines were too big and the manufacturing cycle was very long. It took a year to arrange the four units required by the Dark Land.
While we are building it here, we are also communicating with the automobile factory, hoping that the automobile factory can come up with a semi-trailer for transporting parts.
As for how to transport the semi-trailers transporting motorcycle parts across the scourge between floating islands... this is what the automobile factory needs to consider.
The automobile factory was also in bad luck. It was impossible to transport the motorcycles to Hongshi. The 20.5-meter frame and the corresponding semi-trailer had to use a folding structure, otherwise they would not be able to drive out of the factory.
But how to make the folding structure, the car factory has never thought about it, who has nothing to do with this kind of thing.
Moreover, the sales of special transportation semi-trailers peaked at 4, and the business was too bad.
Fortunately, good news came from the ropeway station that 110-ton cargo could be safely transported, which saved the life of the automobile factory, but the motorcycle factory seemed to have been busy in vain.
...It's not all in vain. At least the inline eight-cylinder 2 was changed to a V16. The front of the car was shortened without losing capacity, which was also progress.
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