Chapter 115: Picking up a train (I)

Xie Tian had never paid attention to the railway system behind the safety zone. This time he went with Lao Cheng to check it out and found that the scale here is actually very large, with several railway lines alone. Lao Cheng explained to Xie Tian: "These railways are used for marshalling and disassembly. And when the train comes in, you can unload the carriage here, and then drive back to the other end through another railway to complete the exchange, so that the empty carriage can be pulled away."

There is a rollover machine behind the power plant that specializes in unloading electric coal trucks, but this is not very useful to Xie Tian and the others. Lao Cheng ran to the green motorcycle and checked it carefully for a long time. There was a cab at both ends of the train, with the model Dongfeng 4b. Lao Cheng climbed into the cab and found that the doors of the two cabs were locked. He was a little disappointed and came down to say to Xie Tian: "The car has no keys. The small building opposite should be the dispatch building. I'll go there to find it to see if the keys are inside."

Xie Tian nodded and said, "I'll be with you."

According to Lao Cheng's explanation, the so-called dispatching building is to arrange the in and out of coal-carrying trains, dismantling and unloading command centers. Lao Cheng said that the code of conduct on the railway is very strict, and train drivers cannot carry the keys with them. After getting off the train, they must be handed back to the section or dispatching center, so he believes that the keys are in this building.

This building has been idle for a long time. Lao Cheng searched around for a long time before he found a string of keys nailed to wooden boards on the wall of an office. Then, Lao Cheng said excitedly: "I found it, it's this."

Xie Tian was also very excited. With this, the train could be driven away. If the railway line from here to Xinyu can be really cleared, then once you enter the grain warehouse, those grains will be an astronomical figure for the people in this safe area!

Lao Cheng was in his early fifties and was still healthy. He ran to the locomotive all the way and successfully opened the cab door. Then, he fiddled on the console, and all the relevant electronic equipment of the train lit up. Lao Cheng tried to start the internal combustion engine, and the train trembled slightly. Then, the high-power diesel engine in the center gradually roared.

For this quiet safety area, the huge roar of the train internal combustion engine was very abrupt. Most people ran to the coal yard to observe the situation here and found that Xie Tian actually started the train with a middle-aged and elderly person. They looked at each other one by one, wondering what Xie Tian was planning.

Immediately, Lao Cheng pushed the handle, and the internal combustion engine speed of the train increased again, and the train started slowly! After driving for only fifty meters, Lao Cheng stopped the train and said excitedly to Xie Tian: "Everything is good! This motorcycle is still in its prime!"

Xie Tian was also a little excited and said, "This train is not only heavy, but also very safe. There are only a few small windows and front glass. As long as these places are reinforced, there is no need to doubt the safety of the train. The most important thing is that when the train is driven, no matter how many zombies block the road, they can easily kill them. For it, zombies are not even as good as ants!"

"That's right." Lao Cheng nodded and said, "The total weight of this locomotive is close to 150 tons. Zombies are indeed not worth mentioning to it."

Xie Tian immediately said: "I will ask someone to bring a small generator to reinforce it now, and then organize more than a dozen people. Let's drive it out today to see if there is any hope of opening this railway line!"

Xie Tian didn't even have to eat breakfast, so he immediately organized several welders, used a pickup truck to pull the equipment directly to the coal yard, and then began to reinforce the glass of the locomotive. After two hours of reinforcement, Xie Tian immediately called Xie Xiaofei to go to the army to select ten strong people, bring firearms, and take necessary tools, and follow him out.

The ten soldiers were ready immediately. In addition to bringing guns, they also brought wrenches, hammers and other tools. Then, Xie Tian asked all of them to board the train, some of them were in the rear cab, and others were waiting in the middle corridor. Xie Tian, ​​Lao Cheng and Xie Xiaofei were in the front cab. Xie Tian used the intercom to instruct Song Hui to manage the order of the safety zone, and then said to Lao Cheng: "Lao Cheng, let's go!"

Lao Cheng nodded. The locomotive had an amount of 80% of the fuel, and there was no need to refuel. The locomotive also confirmed that there was no problem after inspection. Seeing that the preparations were done, Lao Cheng started the internal combustion engine again. After a while, the train slowly accelerated, drove out of the power plant, and went directly to the railway bridge.

After the train passed through the railway bridge, Lao Cheng did not accelerate the train, and the speed remained at about 20 kilometers per hour. According to Lao Cheng, the reason why he did not dare to accelerate was that he was uncertain of the position of the turnout entering the main line. If the turnout was closed at this moment, then if the train did not brake in time, there was only one possibility, which was derailment. The coal-carrying branch line was nearly twenty kilometers away from the power plant to the main line access point. An hour later, Lao Cheng began to slow down and pointed to two east-west railways hundreds of meters ahead and said: "That's the main line."

Fortunately, this is in the wilderness and there is no zombie hair around. Lao Cheng said, "Come a few strong men and ask me to check the situation of the switch in front."

Xie Tian said, "I'll go with you, Xiaofei, you can go with you, call three or five more people."

Seven or eight people got out of the car and walked towards the switch in front. Lao Cheng stepped forward and saw that, as expected, the switch was closed at the moment, so he spoke, "I'll pry the switch open, and then we artificially connect the switch to the main line."

Immediately, Lao Zheng used tools to pry an iron box on the side of the road, then pointed to a retractable pole in it, and said: "Push this hard and just make the fork and the main line fit together."

Xie Tian smiled and said, "This is easy, I'll do it." Then, he used an iron pickaxe to penetrate, pry it hard, and with a click, two forks were pushed out, closely connected to the main line.

Immediately, everyone noticed the situation nearby. Looking west from the main line, they could not see the specific situation ahead, because the railway has a long bend here, and they could only see the situation a few kilometers away. Lao Cheng said: "At present, there are no other trains to stop us. Let's get on the train and continue driving forward and take a look."

The train successfully merged into the main line through the switch and drove westward, driving about three or four kilometers forward. Xie Tian saw the rear of a train parked on the railway line several kilometers ahead. From the rear, it can be seen that it was a cargo train.

Let Lao Cheng start to slow down gradually. Lao Cheng soon discovered the train blocking the railway line in front. When approaching, it began to slow down slowly. It stopped less than 100 meters away from the rear of the train. Xie Tian said, "Let's go down and check it. If this train has the supplies we need, take it back to the power plant."

Lao Cheng nodded and said, "We also need to thoroughly check if there are any zombies."

Xie Tianxiao said: "This is not a big problem. Since it is a cargo lineup, at most the driver will turn into a zombie."

Xie Tian ordered the accompanying soldiers to check their weapons and equipment, and then everyone got off the train together and walked west along another railway line. The cargo line was very long, with twelve trolleys behind it. I couldn't see what was inside. Then, there were some oil tankers, about twenty, marked with diesel, gasoline and kerosene.

Xie Xiaofei said excitedly: "Brother Xie, we don't have to worry about so much oil in the future!"

"More worrying." Xie Tian smiled wryly, scratched his head, and said, "We don't have much demand for gasoline now. The only thing that consumes a lot is diesel. We only have the main generator set. Even if we drive at full power, the consumption of diesel will not be too high. The most fatal thing is so much fuel, at least a few hundred tons. It is a problem to pull it back and put it in. It is consumed slowly. I don't know when it will be used."

"There are containers in front." Lao Cheng pointed to a row of flatbed trucks in front, and a large container was fixed to each flatbed truck.

"I don't know what's inside." Xie Tian said, "It would be great if there was food."

"It's so bad." Lao Cheng said: "There are usually special grain transport trains. Such marshals are circulated at first glance, and all kinds of materials are available. Small batches of grain generally do not use railway transportation, but mostly highway transportation, otherwise the railway will be too troublesome."

Xie Tian sighed with some disappointment. He originally thought that even if he could find a truckload of grain, he would have sent it. After all, a truckload of grain is at least dozens of tons. But as Lao Cheng said, if you want to find grain on the railway, you should either find a large amount of grain in one breath. You can basically not think about the small amount. A truck of grain can be easily pulled away. If you want to take it, you can take it wherever you want. No one will choose to turn around the railway. In the end, it will be transferred to road transportation. It is too troublesome.

Going further, there are basically open-air cars on the top, and the supplies are also different. Some are made of steel and some are made of large logs. Xie Tian counted all the way, and the whole train had 58 car skins. When everyone reached the front end, Lao Cheng pointed to the locomotive and said, "This is an electric locomotive, but we still have to drag it back and we can't stay here to block the road."

"I'll go up and take a look." Xie Tian climbed up the ladder at the front of the car and looked inward along the window. A zombie in the cab was awakened and quickly got up. Xie Tian took out his pistol and exploded the other party's head through the window. After a closer look at the inside, he found that there was a corpse with only a skeleton left.

"There are zombies?" Seeing Xie Tian put away his gun and jumped down, Xie Xiaofei asked hurriedly.

"Well, it's just an ordinary zombie." Xie Tian said casually: "There is another corpse that has been gnawed away."

Lao Cheng nodded and said, "Then it's okay. There are only two drivers in the train, and there will be no other zombies. Let's go back. I will connect the front of the car with this car. As for what is in these containers and caravans, I can only wait until we pull it back before we can watch it slowly."

Xie Tian had no objection. After all, there was only one internal combustion engine that could be used, and the road ahead was blocked by this cargo train. If you don’t drag the car back, you won’t be able to move forward again. Then, more than ten people turned around and walked back.

After Lao Cheng got on the motorcycle cab, he started the motorcycle and walked slowly until he connected to the parking space in front of the car. After the hook was connected, Lao Cheng connected the air duct and checked the air pressure. Then he said to everyone: "Okay, the air pressure is fine, let's go back."

After everyone got on the front of the car, Lao Zheng came to the cab in the opposite direction and prepared to drive the train back in the opposite direction.

Xie Tian couldn't help but sigh: "The end of the world is the end of the world. Everything is used to pick up. This time I just picked up a train and went back..."

Xie Xiaofei smiled and said, "Brother Xie, we just don't have the talent to fly planes, otherwise it would be no problem to pick up a few planes."

After the train was hung on dozens of shabby, the starting speed was significantly slower. The train was slowing down for a long time before it raised the speed. The road conditions were clear when they arrived, and Lao Cheng's speed no longer deliberately slowed down. The train rushed back at a speed of 60 kilometers per hour, and after half an hour, it was approaching the railway bridge behind the power plant.

The train began to slow down, slowly passed through the railway bridge, and continued to slowly drive to the marshalling yard behind the coal yard with inertia. People in the safety area found that the locomotive that had not been out for a long time was dragged back to a train, and they all came to watch the fun. More than a thousand people were surrounded by the marshalling yard. Xie Tian temporarily dispatched soldiers who were training to maintain order, and then began to count the materials of the entire train.

Xie Tian did not have much hope for the supplies in this cargo line. After all, his main goal was to clear the railway line and go to Xinyu's grain warehouse. This cargo line was just a burden that was forced to be dragged back. The steel and wood were of no use. There was too much steel in the entire power plant, and the wood could only be used to burn stoves. Compared with the mountain-stacked more than 100,000 tons of coal, these woods were really not enough to see.

Only those caravans still have some hope, after all, they don’t know what is installed inside. Only by opening one by one can we determine whether there will be any unexpected surprises. The soldiers rushed over and forced the refugees who watched the fun to block the fun twenty meters away. Then, Xie Tian took a few young and middle-aged men and began to check from the caravan at the rear of the train.

The box car is sealed with sliding doors on both sides. There is only a railway-specific lock hanging on it, which can be broken with a hammer head.

Xie Tian first smashed the lock of the last boxcar in front of more than a thousand people, and then as the door was pushed open, it was filled with boxes sealed with wooden strips. Xie Tian opened it and found that the box was filled with various glassware separated by stuffing objects, including glass cups the most, which looked very exquisitely made. It seemed that it would be a very high-end thing if it was placed in ordinary times.

Looking at it, it was full of these boxes. It seemed that this was a glass product of a whole carriage. In the end of the world, it was really useless. The only use was that you could hear a sound when you fell on the ground.

Xie Tian threw one of the boxes to Xie Xiaofei below. Xie Xiaofei took them and opened them in public. When everyone found that it was filled with glasses, he couldn't help but sigh in disappointment.

After thanking the world, I went straight to the second box car. After opening it, a strong chemical smell came over me. It was filled with white woven bags, and bags were neatly stacked together, looking very similar to rice bags.

"Food!" The survivor watching from afar roared excitedly.

More than a thousand people roared and were so excited that they were all happy. Xie Tian jumped out of the car, his face was black, and he shouted in dissatisfaction: "Who... says it's food? Come, move it back and eat it! It's all... urea!"

With a swish, more than a thousand people were speechless. Then Xie Tian threw a bag of urea from the car, then jumped down and cut the woven bag with a dagger. Only then did everyone see the white particles inside. Then, the special smell was emitted, and everyone was disappointed. Urea, what is the use of this thing? Is it for farming?

"It's still urea."

“It’s urea again.”

Xie Tian was a little depressed and drove eight boxes in a row, all of which were filled with agricultural urea. Xie Tian even lost the motivation to continue driving, but when he drove the tenth box, he finally made a good discovery.

The vehicle was still full of boxes with wooden seals, but the words "Hong Kong Dingxin Import and Export Company" could be seen on each box. Xie Tian opened one of the boxes and found that there were twelve bottles of royal salute whiskey inside. He thought that the things he found this time were of some use, and it was actually some good foreign wine. It was probably sent to a city agent.

Xie Tian asked some soldiers for help and began to move all the boxes of wine below. What Xie Tian couldn't believe was that there were all high-end foreign wines, including not only whiskey, vodka, tequila, but also Bailitian, fruit wine, champagne and high-end red wine. The wines were all native to France, and there were even the famous Lafite. A whole truck was counted, and there were more than 7,000 boxes of various wines.

Xie Yufei was here too, so Xie Tian called her over and said, "Yufei, bring ten soldiers and use a pickup to bring all the wine back."

Xie Yufei looked at so much wine and said in a little embarrassed manner: "Brother Xie, where can I put so much wine?"

Xie Tianxiao said: "You are in full control of all the rooms on the first floor of the General Control Building, and you can use whatever room you want."

Xie Yufei nodded and asked, "Then you don't need to bring these urea back, right?"

"What are you doing with it..." Xie Tian said embarrassedly: "These urea will be left in the car and may be of use in the future."

"Okay." Xie Yufei hurriedly asked ten soldiers for help, and one of them drove the pickup truck over, and the rest began to load it into the car.

There are only two left in the box car and it has not been opened. Xie Tianxin said: Until now, only one car of wine is of barely useful. If you have these two cars, try to get something useful, so that you won’t be able to pick up a train, but you will be happy.
Chapter completed!