"What? Work as a connector in the equipment workshop?"
When Liu Erfeng received the notice from the Labor and Resources Department, he was so shocked that his facial muscles were deformed.
Looking at the black and white words on the order, a vibrato escaped his throat involuntarily.
"Why, why?"
Zhang Mingrui, deputy chief of the labor and management department, saw him like this.
I thought he was too excited.
Patting him on the shoulder, he said: "Er Feng, you are in great luck. I heard that the driver in charge of the rescue mission took the initiative to plead for you.
Duan Li decided to give you a chance to start a new life, so he transferred you to the equipment workshop as a liaison officer.
Don't let that driver's kindness go down. "
Liu Erfeng's head was buzzing at this moment.
If you don't become an archivist, you won't have access to those drawings, let alone take them out.
Liu Erfeng's plan that he had worked hard to plan for more than a month came to nothing.
The beauties in cool clothes on the beach, the foreign wine in the bar, and the exciting movies were all like a gust of wind blowing past him. He stretched out his hand to grab it, but he couldn't catch it.
If possible, he would like to kill Li Aiguo.
But now in front of Zhang Mingrui, he had to show tears of gratitude.
It’s so frustrating.
"Thank you very much, Comrade Li Aiguo!"
"This is the correct attitude. It doesn't matter if you make a mistake. As long as you know your mistake, you should correct it. You are still a good comrade."
Zhang Mingrui raised his wrist to look at the time, stood up and said, "There is a shortage of manpower in the recent section. You should report to the equipment workshop now."
Liu Erfeng sent Zhang Mingrui away.
He slumped down on the chair, the knots on his brows looking like balls on his butt.
"It's all because of that damn Li Aiguo's troubles!"
"What should we do now? Do we just give up?"
"No, no, the connector is not a human job. I still have to find a way as soon as possible to sneak into the archives."
"When I get the blueprints and can leave here, I will get a gun from the pigeon market and shoot you secretly."
"Li Aiguo, just wait for me!"
Liu Erfeng made up his mind, took the transfer order, and came to the equipment workshop to report.
Although the maintenance department did not publish the list of mistakes Liu Erfeng made.
But there are no secrets in the locomotive depot.
The workshop director and deputy director of the equipment workshop both knew what Liu Erfeng had done.
In the maintenance section, all mistakes can be forgiven.
Only those sloppy dispatchers cannot be forgiven.
Over the years, countless accidents have occurred due to scheduling errors.
Some have also caused terrible accidents and caused huge casualties.
Therefore, after receiving the transfer order, the two leaders of the workshop did not have a good look towards Liu Erfeng.
"Liu Erfeng, have you ever been a connector before?"
"No, but I was trained as a connector in a technical secondary school." Liu Erfeng quickly patted his chest and assured, "I promise I can do it."
Liu Erfeng was now forced into a corner.
If he doesn't agree to be a linker, he will probably be fired from Duanli.
When introduced, there was no hope of entering the archives.
The director of the equipment workshop reminded Liu Erfeng: "Comrade Liu Erfeng, although the technical level of the connector is not high, it is very important. You must be careful in your work."
"Director, please rest assured. I also graduated from a formal technical secondary school. Is it still difficult to do such chores?" Liu Erfeng disagreed.
The workshop director nodded: "Okay, since you know what to do, go to the station and be on duty now."
Couplers are mainly responsible for the coupling and detachment of railway vehicles, as well as vehicle replacement and repair.
The specific work content includes picking up and delivering the vehicle, removing the air duct of the vehicle, lifting the hook, and preventing it from slipping.
Trains are heavy vehicles, and in order to ensure sturdiness, the equipment on the trains are relatively heavy.
Especially the couplers, each weighing dozens of kilograms, caused huge trouble to the coupler's work.
Passenger trains are better. In order to ensure the comfort of passengers, the train driver will be careful every time when connecting.
The driver of a freight train has a rougher behavior, and the freight train is heavier and the stopping distance is difficult to control, so the link operator has to put in more than half of his effort.
It can be said that freight train connector is one of the most difficult, tiring and dangerous jobs in the entire railway system.
Liu Erfeng wanted to get close to the archives.
I could only grit my teeth and collect the tools, and then came to the station to find the fifth shunting team on duty.
The connector is under the management of the shunting team and needs to obey the orders of the shunting chief.
Hu Dakai, the shunting commander of the fifth shunting team, looked Liu Erfeng up and down.
"You are as skinny as a chicken, how can you do this job? This is a job for men!"
Liu Erfeng was angry at the workshop director and was already angry.
Now I was being harshly lectured by an elder again, and I was not convinced at the time.
Just kidding, he also graduated from a regular railway technical secondary school. How could he bear to be lectured by such an uneducated person? !
"Why can't you do it!" Liu Erfeng's eyes widened.
"Okay, I'll teach you first, and you'll be on duty later."
Hu Dakai, the shunting commander, also had good intentions. He originally wanted Liu Erfeng to retreat when he saw the difficulties, but he thought that this kid didn't know the heart of a good person, so there was no need to be polite.
After the simple teaching, Hu Dakai also conducted an assessment on Liu Erfeng.
Liu Erfeng connected the carriages together in a few clicks, picked up the pliers and struck the iron bars, and said proudly: "Team leader, how are you? Am I qualified?"
"There is no technical problem, but the most important thing for our linkers is to be careful. Whether it is connecting pipelines or placing iron shoes, everything needs to be done in one step."
Liu Erfeng took out a pack of cigarettes from his pocket, popped one out, put it in his mouth, and said nonchalantly: "I know, I'm a regular technical secondary school graduate, but I can't do the work of primary school students like you? That's ridiculous!"
"you"
Hu Dakai has never seen such unscrupulous workers.
Just as he was about to teach him a lesson, the fifth shunting team received a notice from the dispatching room.
[Freight train No. 261823 entered Lane 4 of the locomotive depot and stopped. The train was composed of 21 cars, with a total length of 23.2 and a total weight of 1,294 tons.
According to the plan, the train will have an additional carriage in the locomotive depot, between the 11th and 12th carriages at the rear. 】
After receiving the dispatching task, the dispatcher Hu Dakai didn't care about arguing with Liu Erfeng and hurriedly led him to the 4th lane of the station.
Shunting requires the cooperation of the train driver.
Hu Dakai walked to the locomotive, stepped on the ladder, and reached out to pat the locomotive.
A bearded train driver poked his head out, his eyes bloodshot: "It's Old Hu, it's your turn to be on duty today."
"Yeah, I'll have to ask my brother to cooperate with me when we make arrangements later." Hu Dakai took out a few cigarettes and passed them through the half-open car glass.
When it comes to scheduling operations, the biggest fear is that the driver will not pay attention.
The train was too powerful and traveled too far, unable to connect with the carriages behind it.
The force is too small and the distance is too short, and it is easy to injure the linker.
"Easy to say, easy to say, I'll pull the valve later, just take it easy." The bearded driver took the cigarette and put it on, turned to look outside.
When he saw Liu Erfeng, he was surprised and said, "What's the matter? You have a new member in your shunting team?"
"Yes, this product is a good product. He made a mistake in the dispatch room and was sent to me."
"Isn't he the dispatcher in the dispatch room who dispatches trains without coal?!"
"it's him"
"Damn it, this kid can't be spared!"
Hu Dakai saw the bearded driver grabbing the iron rod and rushing off the locomotive, so he quickly stopped him.
"Lao Bi, you must not do it. He has already been criticized. We don't want to do it in private."
"For this kind of dispatcher, if the labor and management see each one, they will beat him to death!"
The bearded driver who had been so pleasant just now was now in a state of complete irritation, and the beard under his lips exploded like a hedgehog.
"Don't he know that random scheduling can really kill people?"
No wonder the bearded driver is so angry.
Trains can only run on rails, and the train driver is blind and deaf when he is driving.
The dispatcher is their ears and eyes.
If there's something wrong with the dispatcher, it's only a matter of time before the train crashes.
Hu Dakai could understand the bearded driver's mood, and sighed and said: "Old Bi, give me some face, let's forget about it for now, we have to get on the carriage quickly!"
"That's you. If it were anyone else, I would have to go down and give this guy a slap in the face today to make him remember a lot!"
"Thank you, brother. I'll pay you in a few days. Brother, I'll treat you to a drink."
Hu Dakai calmed down the bearded driver.
He began to stand on the train floor and direct Liu Erfeng to connect the carriages.
He wasn't worried about the bearded driver breaking it.
Because at work, no matter how angry two people are, they will not get in the way of each other.
This is the professional ethics of the locomotive depot employees.
"What the hell, I didn't hurt anyone. Do you need to glare at me? These train drivers are all rough! They have no culture at all."
Liu Erfeng also heard the conversation between the two people below.
He spat disapprovingly and rushed to the back of the 11th carriage with the guys.
Because there are so many carriages mounted on the train, and the rails are so curved, it’s impossible to see what’s behind from the front.
Communication between the dispatcher and the linker can only be done through shouting.
After shouting, I learned that Liu Erfeng was in place.
Hu Dakai, the dispatcher, pedaled on the locomotive, half-suspended in the air, and shouted into the intercom:
"Liu Erfeng, put down your iron shoes and unscrew the gate."
"knew."
Liu Erfeng put down his iron shoes under the trolley in the 11th carriage, then picked up the tools and started to twist the gate.
Because the gate at the rear of the carriage has been twisted and deformed, it is really difficult to tighten it.
Liu Erfeng spent a lot of effort to unscrew the front gate.
"Damn it, this shitty job really isn't done by humans. We still have to find a way to get him transferred as soon as possible!"
Liu Erfeng looked at his palm, which was bruised and red by the hammer, and cursed while sucking his lips.
The voice of the shunting commander came from a distance. The high-pitched voice was slightly distorted by the wind: "Why haven't you unscrewed it yet?"
"It'll be ready soon, why are you urging me so much?"
Liu Erfeng shouted in front of him at the top of his lungs.
I picked up the thing, endured the pain in my hands, and prepared to turn the rear gate.
At this moment, he felt some tremors under his feet. Looking down, he saw a slight tremor from the rails.
Liu Erfeng turned his head and looked subconsciously.
This didn't matter, the whole person was so frightened that the seven souls were frightened and the six souls were scared away, and he stood there blankly.
I saw that more than ten carriages behind me had slipped away.
"Oops, I forgot to put iron shoes under the platform of carriage 12!"
If we were to chase him, we might be able to catch up because of the shorter distance and slower speed.
But at this time, Liu Erfeng was already panicking, and his heart was beating like a panicked rabbit.
He picked up his iron shoes and rushed over. His feet gave way and he fell to the ground.
The dozen or so carriages were retreating faster and faster, and the distance was getting farther and farther.
Only then did Liu Feng realize the seriousness of the problem.
He stood up and wanted to sound the alarm, but he couldn't hold back the sound in his throat.
"This guy looks pretty smart, why is he so slow to get things done?"
The dispatch chief at the front had no idea what was happening behind him and wanted to continue urging.
At this time, a panicked voice came from the distance: "The dispatcher has slipped away! The train has slipped away! The train has slipped away!"
"What!"
The dispatcher asked subconsciously before reacting.
He felt his scalp was numb, so he quickly jumped off the train and climbed onto the cement block next to him.
When he saw more than a dozen carriages running towards Main Line No. 2 like an out-of-control steel dragon, this man who had worked in the locomotive depot for decades felt his legs become weak and his face looked frightened. Rutu, his tongue was blocked and his throat was suffocated.
For a moment, the whole world seemed to freeze, darkening little by little, and finally fell into darkness.
It was Lao Bi, the driver of freight train 261823, who was the first to react.
"Lao Hu, hurry up, call the dispatch room, call the section immediately." Lao Bi slapped the car window and shouted at the top of his lungs.
"Ah, yes, yes, yes"
Dispatcher Hu Dakai took a deep breath, bit his lip, and tried his best to calm down.
Without taking a good posture, he jumped down from the cement block and staggered towards the dispatch room.
When I ran to the door of the dispatch room, I lost one of my shoes at some point.
"boom!"
Break open the door to the dispatch room.
Panting and shouting:
"Emergency, emergency. When freight train 261823 was adding carriages, an accident occurred. More than ten carriages slipped. Now the carriages that have slipped are running towards the No. 2 main line."
boom!
These words were like a thunder that exploded inside the dispatch room.
The entire locomotive depot was shaken to the point of shaking.
The other side.
Li Aiguo also rode his bicycle to the locomotive depot early in the morning.
I originally wanted to receive yesterday's reward plus Yan Jiecheng's work clothes early, but who would have thought that the comrades in the Materials Department have not gone to work yet.
I can only wait until I get off work in the afternoon to collect it.
The workshop director already knew about the rescue train yesterday.
At the morning meeting, the workshop director praised Li Aiguo and called on all crew members, drivers and police officers to learn from Comrade Li Aiguo.
Learn from his spirit of not being afraid of hardships and having the courage to risk his life to complete tasks.
The workshop director's words caused a burst of warm applause.
Among them, Zhang Yazhi drummed the most energetically, even her little hands turned red.
After morning meeting.
Li Aiguo followed Cao Wenzhi and the others to the station yard as usual, inspected the locomotive, and prepared to start a new day of busy work.
Sudden.
A rushing voice sounded from the loudspeakers scattered throughout the locomotive depot.
"Emergency notice, emergency notice! A train slipping accident occurred inside the locomotive depot. More than ten carriages slipped along Route 4 towards Main Line 2. All trains departing from Route 4 are requested to temporarily stop running. , the specific opening time will be awaited for follow-up notification.”
This notice completely broke the peace in the maintenance section, and everyone stood there dumbly.
"Slip the car."
Li Aiguo had only heard his father talk about car slipping before.
If the car is rolling away on flat ground, there is still a possibility of saving it because the speed of the rolling car is not high.
If you are driving on a slope.
His heart was in his throat.
"Snapped!"
Cao Wenzhi suddenly clapped his hands, and his face changed drastically: "Exit from Route 4 of our locomotive depot, and then walk forward along Main Route 2. For more than a hundred miles, everything is downhill. Now we are in big trouble. ”
Why is Cao Wenzhi so clear?
Because after train 131 departs from Beijing, it reaches the main line 2.
"Click"
Old Zheng, who was smoking a dry pipe, let go of his hand and the pipe pot fell to the ground.
"We're in big trouble. That bear ball thing is picking up speed, just like a tank. If a train passes along the line, it will definitely crash and kill people."
Tank car. Old Zheng also underestimated the rolling train.
If the car continues to go downhill, the speed of the car can reach two to three hundred kilometers per hour.
Imagine what it would be like to have more than a dozen carriages weighing hundreds of tons crashing into each other at 200 to 300 kilometers per hour.
Even a big mountain has to tremble three times.
(End of chapter)
