Chapter 927 Unique Passenger and Freight Carriages

The white mist that the steam locomotive spewed out to both sides was like the breath of a monster, and the sound of the whistle above was like the roar of a monster.

Whoosh whoosh -

streams of high-pressure steam pushed the piston back and forth to do work, the steel wheels rolled, and the locomotive was smoothly driven out of the workshop.

The slaves were all stunned. They didn't dare to imagine that there would be such a monster in the world.

"Is this a car?" Someone asked stupidly, looking at the locomotive with a pure metal structure.

"It should be, right? Look at this thing, it also has wheels, and it is just as wide as the two iron bars they laid, so this road is specially for this guy to run, right?" The companion next to him also looked at the train wheels that were stuck on the track and said.

"Look at the back of this car, isn't that what is filled with the coal blocks we dug out? So this car is specially used to transport coal?" Someone else speculated while looking at the locomotive in front of him.

"Why are you all thinking about this? Aren't you curious about how this thing can move forward without cattle or horses to pull it, and without people to push it?" The crowd raised their voices of surprise again.

However, everyone around shook their heads. It was not that they were not curious or did not want to know, but they naturally thought that no matter what incredible things appeared in the Han tribe, it should be normal. What's so strange about it?

Just like the Han tribe's large sailing ship, as long as a piece of cloth is hung, it can be blown away by the wind. Who dared to believe it when they had never seen it before?

Just like when they were captured, the Han tribe used the kind of weapon that could shoot iron balls several miles away. If they hadn't experienced it personally, who would believe it?

And the windmill driven by wind, or the super-large iron car in front of them, who knows what it relies on to move forward, but does it have anything to do with them? It's enough to know that this is a kind of car made by the Han tribe.

The slaves present, or all the people in the Han tribe, had long been numb to the technological explosion brought about by Luo Chong. All kinds of magical things would pop up from time to time, and everyone was no longer surprised.

They only needed to know that this was the leader's idea, what this thing was used for, and what impact it would have on them. Knowing these was enough. As for the principle of this thing? I'm afraid only a very few people would be interested in it.

Whoosh-whoosh-whoosh-whoosh-

when the train spewed white smoke past them and finally stopped two hundred meters away, the craftsmen and supervisors came to greet them.

"Okay, don't just stand there, follow me to the workshop, let's push out the carriages at the back and hang them on the front of the train, and you can load all the remaining rails onto this train, so you don't have to carry them on your shoulders."

The supervisor called the slaves to the workshop to push the carriages, and said that they would use this train to transport the rails. Everyone was immediately excited when they heard this, because they already knew in the morning that they had to deliver a total of 200 rails to the construction site today, but they had only gotten more than 30 rails so far. If they had to carry the rest to the construction site on their shoulders, they might really be exhausted to death, and even if they were exhausted to death, they would not be able to finish the work today.

A group of people followed the supervisors from each village into the workshop. After entering, everyone found that there were many tracks on the ground here that were the same as those outside, and there was even a circular track turnout inside, and those carriages and the front of the train could be turned freely inside.

A group of 20 people were divided into a group. Each group pushed a bare carriage truss out of the workshop and pushed it to the back of the locomotive. There was a craftsman waiting here. He held a steel pin as thick as a rolling pin in his hand and plugged the carriage hook with the hook at the tail of the locomotive. It was very simple to connect a carriage.

The slaves were very surprised. It turned out that all these things could be hung behind the locomotive? Think about the many carriages parked in the workshop just now. Are they all going to be hung on it?

Oh my God, if they are all hung together, then this car will be as long as a snake? !

"Are they asking us to connect all the cars just now to this?" Someone asked in disbelief.

"It must be. Didn't the supervisor say just now? Let us install all the rails on it. Think about how long the rails are? I don't think we can install the rails without hanging more than ten sections." Someone else analyzed affirmatively.

"Well, that's right!" Everyone nodded and continued to get busy.

The carriage trusses were hung on the front of the train, eight in total, each twelve meters long, plus the space between the carriages, exactly one hundred meters long, and then workers inserted some iron bars on both sides of the frame as clasps to prevent the rails from falling off the sides of the cart.

When the three villages responsible for transporting the rails began to carry the rails onto the train, the other village responsible for transporting the sleepers had already hung the other eight carriages at the back. These eight carriages all had walls and were designed to carry ore, but now they could also be used to carry sleepers, so a group of people began to load materials up.

As the slaves were loading things on the train, they discussed in a low voice, "I just counted, and this train, not counting the red front, has sixteen carriages hanging at the back, loaded with either rails or large logs. How heavy must all these things be together? Can this iron train really pull it?"

"It should be able to, otherwise they wouldn't ask us to load it. Anyway, they can't ask us to push it after it's loaded, right? Even if we want to, we may not be able to push it."

"Yeah, you're right, and no wonder the road we built is made of iron, with so many logs underneath. If we put such a heavy train directly on this dirt road, I'm afraid the wheels will be crushed down, right?!"

Everyone nodded in agreement, and continued to load the goods on the train. After two hours of work, when the rails and sleepers were full, they were called to the workshop again, and then pushed out four more carriages that were different from the previous ones. These were the passenger and freight carriages that the locomotive factory had obtained according to Luo Chong's plan.

The Han tribe currently has only two types of carriages. One is a carriage specifically used to pull ore. This type of carriage has solid walls on all four sides, with angle steel used as ribs and frames, and solid wood planks embedded inside. It is very sturdy and can easily hold a whole box of ore.

In addition, there are discharge ports on both sides of this carriage specifically for unloading ore. As long as you use a crowbar to open the port using the principle of leverage, the ore inside will pour out. Although it is not a dump truck, it can be regarded as a simple self-unloading carriage.

This type of carriage has no roof, and at most it can be covered with a layer of canvas, or even without canvas. In the current situation of the Han tribe, at most it can be covered with a layer of straw curtains.

In addition, this type of carriage specially used for pulling ore can also be used to carry live animals, such as cattle, horses, sheep and other living creatures. With this type of carriage, livestock can stand directly in it, and it is originally a coal-pulling car, so it is not afraid of dirt, and it is acceptable to get some feces and urine.

In addition, there is another type of carriage, which is the passenger and cargo carriage that the slaves just pushed out.

Yes, the Han tribe did not have a dedicated passenger carriage at all, because no one was running around anyway, so why would they need such a professional passenger carriage?

The reason why this version of the passenger and cargo carriage was created was also to take into account possible passenger needs, and it still met the passenger needs of this era.

In a normal passenger carriage, the seats are all arranged horizontally, and a narrow aisle will be left in the middle. For a train with a track gauge of about 1.5 meters, the carriage can be 3.3 meters wide, which is the most common layout of a passenger train, with an aisle in the middle, two seats on one side, and three seats on the other side, and five seats in a row, which is the most conventional layout.

Narrow gauge trains with a track gauge of about one meter are the most common in Japan. The width of its carriages is narrower, with an aisle in the middle and two seats on each side of the aisle, four in a row.

For example, the 75cm track gauge of the Hanbu train has a carriage width of 1.6 meters. If it is designed according to the conventional layout, only three seats can be placed in a row, with an aisle in the middle, two seats on one side, and a single seat on the other side. Moreover, the aisle and seats are very narrow. After all, it is only 1.6 meters, which is about the same width as a family car. Imagine that there are three people sitting in the back seat and an aisle is left in the middle, and you will know how narrow it is.

Moreover, once it is arranged like this, it will be necessary to cram a lot of seats into the carriage, and it will be impossible to decorate anything else. In the future, it can only be used to attract passengers. However, it is still unknown whether there are so many people in the Han tribe who take the train. The tickets sold may not be able to fill a carriage. In this case, the passenger carriage with a conventional layout will inevitably lose money as long as it is built.

So Luo Chong changed the layout of the carriage and arranged the carriage, which is 12 meters long and 1.6 meters wide, as the corridor of the hospital. Those

who have been to the hospital should have seen that in the corridor of the hospital, there are often some long seats on both sides of the wall for patients to rest temporarily.

This design is very suitable for the current situation of the Han tribe.

Luo Chong directly asked the craftsmen to build a clean and tidy carriage first, and then use the carriage as a corridor. On the walls of the carriage on both sides, a row of foldable wooden benches were installed. If passengers are needed, the benches on both sides are lowered from the wall, and then two rows of passengers can sit face to face on both sides of the carriage, and the open space in the middle is used as an aisle.

If there are many people on that day, you can also stand some more people in the middle aisle like on the bus. And don't think about selling seats for wooden benches. If someone buys a ticket, it will be sold by the number of people.

The advantage of wooden benches is that they are cheap and easy to clean. In addition, there is a large margin for the number of passengers. Four people can sit and eight people can squeeze in. This is the advantage of benches.

If there are no passengers taking the train that day, but goods need to be transported, then all the benches on both sides can be folded up and attached to the wall, and then the entire carriage will instantly become a carriage with four sides flat and empty like a container, so that it can be used to load various goods.

However, considering that passenger and cargo carriages may be used to transport passengers at any time, there are also regulations and requirements for the goods carried in such carriages.

For example, cotton, food, equipment, utensils and the like can be placed in such carriages, because such goods are basically clean and will not make the carriage very dirty, affecting the passenger experience.

If you are transporting ore, logs, and other things, you can just throw them into the carriages dedicated to ore transport.

Anyway, wood and other things are not afraid of getting dirty. Another point worth noting is that this kind of passenger and cargo carriage is not completely closed. In other words, although there is a roof on it, it is only the kind of roof used for sunshade. Of course, it can also be used to block rain, but the upper part of the walls on both sides is empty. It is usually completely open and there are no inlaid glass windows. There is only a rolled bamboo curtain that can be manually lowered to temporarily block the sun and rain.

However, only one curtain has limited effect after all. If it is used to transport passengers, there is no need to do other unnecessary operations. If it is used to transport goods, a layer of tarpaulin can be covered on the roof to block rain.

In a word, Luo Chong did not expect this thing to really play any role in passenger transport. More design aspects are prepared for transporting goods. He doesn't care whether it transports passengers or not.

But now such a design has played its due role.

After the four empty passenger and freight carriages were also hung to the back of the train, the supervisors and foremen began to call the slaves to get on the train.

"Okay, hurry up and line up. These four carriages are for your four villages, one carriage for each village. Hurry up and get on the train. Do you see the chairs on the walls on both sides of the carriage? Put them down and sit on them.

Everyone, take your tools and squeeze each other. If there is no room, sit on the floor of the middle aisle."

Everyone was overjoyed when they heard this. They had been busy all day. In the past, no matter where they went, they had to use their legs to measure step by step. Unexpectedly, the Han tribe would give them a car to sit in today, and it was such a high-end car.

In the four carriages at the back, everyone found a seat and sat down, leaning comfortably against the wall behind them. Looking at the people sitting opposite them in the same posture, everyone smiled knowingly. There were fifty people in a village, and this carriage was just enough for them.

Someone couldn't help but sigh, "What should I do if I suddenly regret it?"

"What do you regret?" The person next to him asked curiously.

"I regret that I listened to the chief and followed them to rob the city of the Han tribe. Otherwise, I would not have ended up like this.

Look at what the Han tribe is like! When our tribe didn't even popularize horse-drawn carriages, the Han tribe had already built this kind of magical car. This car can actually hold fifty people, fifty people! And there is still space in the middle.

This is just one of the carriages. There are three more carriages like this in front of us, and it seems that the carriages of this car can be added or subtracted at will. Doesn't this mean that if there are more people, just hang a few more carriages?

Do you dare to think about such a magical car? Anyway, I don't even dare to think about it. I don't know how the people of the Han tribe came up with these good things, and not only did they think of them, they also made them.

We actually regarded the Han tribe as an enemy at the beginning. Now it's ridiculous to think about it. I'm afraid the Han tribe never looked at us straight in the eye. Compared with them, we are like monkeys who have just learned to farm."

Everyone around was completely silent. At this point, they didn't know what to say. Regret? Who wouldn't regret it? But what's the use of regret? !

Just when everyone was sitting in the train car and sighing, there was a sudden sound of "Duang" from the rear of the car. It turned out that after several foremen discussed, they felt that it was already evening and they would definitely not come back at night after going out to the construction site. After discussing, they simply hung two more dining cars on the train.

One car was used to carry food and other ingredients, as well as clean water. The other car had several coal stoves and a chopping board, which was specially used for cooking.

After the two dining cars at the back were loaded, the supervisors of each village also carried a portable calcium carbide lamp and got on the four passenger cars.

In the evening, the passenger car was already a little dim. After a calcium carbide lamp was brought up, it instantly illuminated the entire car, from the front to the back of the car, and also shone on the faces of many slaves. They all looked at the bright light involuntarily, and heard the supervisor say.

"We have been busy all day, and it is getting dark. Let's take a break first. When we get to the construction site, we will cook and eat, and then we can rest today.

Tomorrow, our village will not need to move rails. The rails and sleepers loaded on this train should be enough for one or two days. Then you can all learn to install the tracks, which is the work of hammering nails.

Everyone should seize the opportunity, watch carefully, and learn well. When the project of this line is completed, you can all learn the technology of laying railways and obtain the household registration of the Han tribe.

Your Xin tribe is a thing of the past. Open your eyes and look at the future. Look at the train and railway of our Han tribe. Our train is so powerful. It doesn't need to be pulled by oxen or horses. It can move with a stove in front to boil water. Not only can it move, but it can also carry so many people and things at a time.

I won't hide it from you. This is the train that our Han tribe has just developed. The railway you built is the first railway of our Han tribe. When this road is built, you will know how powerful this train is. It can carry more than a ship and run faster than a horse. In the future, when our Han tribe has such things, there will be no other tribe in the world that can compete with us.

And you are the first batch of railway workers in the Han tribe. As long as you learn this craft, settling down in the Han tribe is the most basic thing. If you want to live a good life in the Han tribe, that's even more of a piece of cake, because the tribe will definitely build more railways in the future, and you will be the most experienced railway workers. "

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