Chapter 316: The test was successful
Orders were issued one by one, and eight long legs were almost running without touching the ground. However, they were trained and their efficiency was very high. In just two hours, a large group of technicians and workers appeared in the factory, including Baotou recently, who had some experience in railway construction recruiting across the country. They will become the main body of the Railway Construction Corps in the future, and will join Zhan Tianyou to fight on the construction site of the Baotou Railway, and are also one of the first users of these machinery.
The empty warehouse suddenly became lively. Many workers who were called looked at the locomotive strangely, especially some workers who were familiar with road construction. The first feeling they felt when they saw this locomotive was familiar, but then they felt that the locomotive was somewhat different from ordinary locomotives, but they couldn't say how different they were.
A group of people surrounded the locomotive, and there were two foreign engineers, but they were the exceptions of everyone. They were the providers of the previous transmission device. At that time, they only provided a device that could transport half a ton of long items to a fixed direction, requiring strict and stable control. They solved this very well, and some of the advantages were also applied to the locomotive by Yang Yuanzhao. However, after seeing the actual object, they found that the device was actually integrated on the train.
I circled around the train, especially when I observed the things added by Yang Yuanzhao, which were not unexpected by them, because Yang Yuanzhao's mission was just a transmission device, but now it is indeed a complete platform, using transmission and transportation devices on this train is such an innovation.
Creativity is not worth it if it is pointed out. Many amazing inventions in history are not how difficult this invention is, but I just didn't expect it. The window paper is a little bit. Once it is invented, it will be quickly learned by countries with the same industrial and research standards. This road construction machinery is like this. Simple things, if combined together, will play an excellent role. It will even bring about the geometric improvement of efficiency.
This is the case with this rail fixture installation machine. Among the workers who called, there were train workers. Under Yang Yuanzhao's order, they first got onto the train. The whistle sounded and the train started.
The trains of this era are steam locomotives, which are already amazing, and even more so in closed rooms. When the steam engine is turned on, steam permeates the entire room, making the room of thousands of square meters look smoky. After Yang Yuanzhao's serious improvement, the smoke of the steam engine has been significantly reduced. The power has also become much more stable and the noise is not very large.
The train driver is skillfully driving the train and performs slow movements on tracks less than 500 meters, and cannot increase force. The locomotive control performance is extremely strong. Even if the steam engine is too powerful, it can be dispelled by transmission, etc., which highlights the performance of the locomotive. After all, for a train locomotive, speed and horsepower are the key. However, for road construction machinery, speed is not important, and horsepower is careless. The key is control, precise control, and reasonable allowance, so that the entire laying work can be reasonable and fast.
After the driver became familiar with the train, the follow-up personnel got on the train under the order of Yang Yuanzhao and began to use various control machines to carry out laying operations. Because they were not familiar with it, and there were some inadequate considerations in this machine. After all, Yang Yuanzhao only solved the problem of machinery and rigor, some comfort, and even the shortcomings that can be discovered only after starting work, which need to be solved through continuous practice.
Fortunately, everyone can see that the purpose of this machine is rarely used in the field of railway paving, and it was created by Yang Yuanzhao to create a decent machine. Although there are certain problems, it also greatly saves manpower.
After an entire afternoon of experiments, the locomotive and transmission equipment cooperated with extremely high efficiency, but there were minor problems. With the help of a large number of engineers and technicians, some details were modified. In the end, the machine could operate successfully, with relatively high efficiency, even exceeding everyone's imagination.
The rail laying machine was successfully completed, and the next one was sleeper. Even in later generations, in Yang Yuanzhao's opinion, there was no good method for sleepers, and it was impossible to use all manpower. This cost too much and would slow down the overall speed. Yang Yuanzhao chose two solutions. One was a small vehicle that could lift and drag the sleeper separately. The other was a large machinery similar to rail laying. This machine could not accurately lay the sleeper to a suitable position. It could be moved and laid simply in one step. This saved a lot of manpower. Large and small sizes were used. In this way, the laying speed of sleepers could keep up with the laying speed of rails. There were a little flaws, but it was not obvious. However, compared with rail laying, the manpower used would be increased a little.
If other engineers participating in the experiment knew that Yang Yuanzhao would have such an idea, they would definitely be shocked. A locomotive would require almost 7 people to operate. The sleeper laying is used because of the many machines used and fine-tuning, which requires about 70 people in total. However, the efficiency is that 72 steel rails were laid in 15 minutes in an incomplete laying coordination. This is more than 800 meters, almost one kilometer. Such a speed is almost a construction volume that 500 people may not be able to complete in a day. Moreover, it is a light rail, not a heavy rail that is much heavier.
The completion of road construction machinery made Yang Yuanzhao extremely excited. He combined the construction workers and teams, temporarily running in and laying them in experiments, using manpower alone, and using machines. The difference is the proficiency. From the series of factories built in Baotou, it can be seen that a worker who has just started to work has a greater difference in production efficiency than a worker who has been trained for a long time and cooperated with others.
Baotou does not have the conditions for laying, but there is one in Baiyun Obo. With the construction of blast furnaces, a large amount of materials need to be freely travelled in the factory. Among them, using other means of transportation is not as good as using railway tracks. Even if there is only a small mine car on the railway track, not a real train locomotive.
Relatively speaking, such a factory road only requires convenience and use of wheels, not speed. Even if there is a little problem, it is nothing. With the joint efforts of 2,000 people, and the help of dozens of tractors, the train locomotive was dismantled into a pile of parts. It took only two days to transport it to Baiyun Obo and was successfully assembled.
In the next period, Yang Yuanzhao got a lot of parts for the workshop. Although the Baotou Road Construction Machinery Factory was not listed, a large number of senior technicians were drawn from major factories and machine factories to assemble these parts. Yang Yuanzhao knew that in the future, once Zhan Tianyou completed the investigation and returned to Baotou, the vigorous railway construction would be started. 30 sets of road construction machinery are the most basic needs. The Beijing-Zhangjiakou Railway, which will take 4 years to be built, is not what he wants. It is not that high speed and efficiency, the real essence of Baotou.
After the road construction machinery was basically solved, on the other hand, he also turned his attention to Zhan Tianyou. When he returned to Baotou, it means that the railway construction is on the fast lane.
When Yang Yuanzhao was in the factory, Zhan Tianyou was not idle. He almost traveled on the Mongolian land with a tractor with a 200-kilometer-long journey every day. You should know that he would focus on inspecting the railway from Baotou to Zhangjiakou and Datong Taiyuan, which started construction first, but there were several routes. The rigor of the engineers showed undoubtedly in the measurement. Baotou's unprecedented huge manpower, as well as the map Yang Yuanzhao obtained from later generations, which concentrated the common wisdom of countless science and personnel in later generations. The determined direction may not be the best, but the most suitable one.
Zhan Tianyou was also deeply touched. During the observation, he encountered better stations and routes than this. However, after really comparing them all together, he found that whether it was the length of the route, the difficulty of investment, the difficulty of railway construction, etc., the plan given by Yang Yuanzhao was the most suitable.
Zhan Tianyou became more and more frightened the more he looked at it. From the initial examination to the belief later, to the end, he directly conducted a series of inspections based on the preliminary investigation results. As long as the basic standards are met, it is enough. Without considering whether it conforms to the overall situation, Baotou has proved their correctness with iron-like facts. In the tight time and heavy tasks, there are one or two subsequent double-tracks of 1,500 kilometers. There are almost 4,500 kilometers of railways that need to be started. Even if Baotou has abundant manpower and nearly a massive amount of funds, the road must be built a little bit.
No longer consider checking for omissions, but just checking the preliminary route. Zhan Tianyou's speed has been significantly accelerated, and later it even reached a speed of 600 kilometers per day. You should know that when the tractor is traveling at full speed, 50 kilometers is almost the limit, which is equivalent to half a day of rushing. Although most of the journey is at night, Zhan Tianyou has completed all the preliminary exploration in about half a month, the subsequent basic data and the most detailed construction plan. It is necessary to wait until he returns to Baotou and check the updated data before he can basically determine it. However, the preliminary work of the two most major railways has been basically completed. It can start construction after returning to Baotou. With the feeling of returning home, Zhan Tianyou is also considering what Yang Yuanzhao has produced. As he said, it is really as he said, reducing the labor intensity several times and improving efficiency? (To be continued)
Chapter completed!