The job of shunting connector is not big, but the risk factor is not small, but anyone who is engaged in shunting work must start from the connector, which is also an industry norm.

The main work of the connector is to carry out the demarshalling of the train, the connection of the vehicle, the transfer of the line, the de-hanging of the locomotive, the vehicle to the cargo position, etc., which belongs to the skilled work.

Generally, the master and apprentice can work alone for more than three months, because the working conditions are open-air stations, regardless of day and night, cold and hot seasons, wind and rain, and the locomotive and rolling stock are in a state of motion, which has a certain degree of danger.

When there is work when there is work, there is no work at any time to rest, the intermediate station is generally two shifts, one day and one night, one day and one night, each shift is composed of two to four people, a shunting chief, two or three connectors, divided into one, two, three connectors.

The work of the shunting officer is directly under the command of the shunting chief, who uses the red and green signal flag to direct the operation of the locomotive during the day, and the connecting officer uses the freehand signal during the day to guide the shunting chief to direct the operation of the locomotive at night, so as to realize the shunting operation plan and complete the operation of the vehicle, such as throwing and hanging, marshalling, and pairing the cargo position.

Zhuge Huaizhi took three months to pass the exam and became a qualified shunting connector.

Thanks to the uninterrupted exercise at school, Zhuge Huaizhi was physically flexible and strong, so that he could flexibly board the freight ladder during the train operation, stand firm and grasp it, and guide the driver to complete the shunting operation.

During an evening assignment in September, Zhuge Huaizhi almost had an accident.

On that day, Zhuge Huaizhi served as the first connector, standing at the rear of the train and guiding the driver to jack the ten wagons into the freight yard and align the cargo space.

The driver was a young man in his twenties, and those who knew him well said that this guy had an impatient and reckless personality, and he had to be careful when working with him.

After successfully taking off the 35 wagons at the tail of the train to the departure line, Zhuge Huaizhi instructed the train driver to transfer to the freight line of the freight yard, preparing to send the ten wagons full of goods behind the locomotive to the designated cargo space for freight unloading.

There are still ten cars away from the cargo space, Zhuge Huaizhi used the shunting light in his hand to send a distance signal, and the shunting chief standing in the front of the car received the signal and also used the shunting light in his hand to send a signal to notify the driver.

After the driver whistled in response, the train did not slow down, and continued to drive towards the end of the freight line, there were still five cars away, Zhuge Huaizhi used the shunting light in his hand to send a signal, and the driver did not slow down after responding.

Zhuge Huaizhi was in a hurry, seeing that there were still three cars away, Zhuge Huaizhi finally pressed the shunting light, and the driver still maintained a fast speed.

The last distance between the two cars is over, and if they don't stop, the truck will rush out of the roadbed, causing an accident! Zhuge Huaizhi immediately made a decision, jumped off the train, and pressed the light in his hand into a red emergency stop light.

The train braked with a scandium bang and stopped at a car still from the end of the line.

"What do you want to do!" Liu Minghe, the shunting commander, was furious and grabbed the driver, "This is going to kill someone, do you know that you are seriously violating the rules! If Zhuge hadn't reacted quickly, such a sudden brake would have thrown him out of the car!"

Zhuge Huaizhi stood on the roadbed, the beads of sweat on his head rolled down, and he was afraid that a second of time might be two completely different results.

Since then, Zhuge Huaizhi has always paid attention to the contact with the drivers, fully communicated before the operation, reminded them to concentrate, and avoided the danger again.

When it was time to rest, Zhuge Huaizhi found that men also like to gossip together, and the biggest topic is the object, who had a fight with his wife last night, who and who fell in love with which girl, and ran to Zhuge Huaizhi while talking about the topic.

"Zhuge , do you have a partner?

"Zhang Hongliang, pull it down quickly, you can know a few high-level girls, what kind of object was the one you introduced to Xiao Li in the passenger transport last time, don't talk about it, it's like a shrew!"

"That's it, let's let our commander introduce you, his lover is from the county people's hospital, and he is surrounded by beautiful little nurses!"

Everyone giggled, so that Zhuge Huaizhi didn't know what to say, to be honest, Zhuge Huaizhi was not in a hurry to find a partner, he was only twenty-three years old, do a good job first, and it was not too late to consider personal problems after two years.

What's more, he has never been able to let go of a person in his heart, although this girl doesn't seem serious, so he sometimes can't see her thoughts clearly.

Zhuge Huaizhi clearly remembered that before graduation, the girl took his hand and said goodbye, and promised to come to Yimeng to find him when she graduated, but it had been several months since she came back, and she hadn't even sent a letter, and Zhuge Huaizhi's heart was full of frustration.

"What's the matter? Zhuge don't speak? Is there someone in my heart?" Liu Minghe smashed Zhuge Huaizhi with his arm.

"What's the matter! I just got up too early today, and I'm a little sleepy!" Zhuge Huaizhi lay on the bed in the lounge, pretending to close his eyes, and his thoughts flew back to school.

In the autumn of 1988, Zhuge Huaizhi was full of gratitude and joy and came to the Railway Adult Secondary School, ready to start a three-year full-time study.

This secondary school is located on Jiefang Road in Lixia District, with the Party School of the Road Bureau in the west, the Railway Signal Factory in the east, and the Railway Machinery School in the north.

The school area is not large, there is a five-story teaching building in the middle, a five-story dormitory building in the south, and there is a covered bridge between the second and fourth floors of the two buildings, which is convenient for students to pass between the two buildings.

There are several low-rise buildings scattered in other places, namely the cafeteria, activity room and library, etc., and the basketball and volleyball courts surrounded by four tall iron nets in front of the teaching building are the usual places for students to move.

Because it is a railway staff school, the courses offered are mainly railway-related majors, mainly including: railway transportation management, railway engineering, railway signaling, etc., and more than a dozen classes of finance and accounting, with six or seven hundred students, generally for three years.

After Zhuge Huaizhi registered, he was assigned to a class of 88 level transportation, with more than 50 students, mainly from Shandong and Jiangsu, and some from railway workers from Northeast China, Inner Mongolia, Henan and other parts of the country.

Although the school is not big, it is located in the prosperous area of the provincial capital, and the students also come from all directions, contact all kinds of people, listen to the teacher's lectures, communicate with classmates, Zhuge Huaizhi feels that his horizons have broadened a lot after a semester of classes.

The ancients said that if you read 10,000 books, you have to travel 10,000 miles, Zhuge Huaizhi felt that if you don't get more education, don't come out to increase your knowledge, nest in the ravine, you will always be a frog at the bottom of the well, I don't know how big the sky is, he feels more and more that he is on the right path.