"Woooooo

The whistle sounded, and five pairs of steel wheels were pushed and pulled by rockers and connecting rods to spin and drive the steam locomotive forward.

Huge red wheels, black barrel noses, surging white steam, flashing red sparks, railroad tracks stretching into the distance, and rattling mechanical parts form a picture full of industrial beauty.

The locomotive and the coal car and water wheel passed by one after another, and the passenger cars appeared on TV one after another. Through the window glass, you can see all kinds of passengers: soldiers with armor and swords, vendors holding goods, farmers in short clothes, and traveling scholars with large sleeves and wide robes, all of whom behave differently, looking unusually vivid and awkward.

Taking her eyes off this picture full of disobedience, Tang Jiayi turned her head to look at Atletico Madrid, "As soon as I came back, I went into the study, and I didn't even care about dinner, just to make up this?"

"Uh-huh," Atletico Madrid, who was lying on the bed, raised his chin and asked with smugness, "How's it going?

The lady sniffled when she heard this, "How could there be a train in the Han Dynasty? You are conveying a wrong view of history." ”

"So what?" Atletico smiled disapprehantly, "Mickey Mouse, Pleasant Goat, martial arts dramas, pigtail plays, there are too many things that do not match reality and history." Dear, don't double standard!"

was so ruthlessly scolded back by him, Tang Jiayi couldn't hold it on her face, and she was about to reach out to sanction someone.

"Bang!"

Atletico suddenly coughed lightly, "What you said is to cultivate a lady's demeanor and a lady's temperament." ”

When Tang Jiayi heard this, she had to suppress her anger and decisively change the topic, "What, this train mod seems to have been made by someone else, you just took it over and changed it, what's so proud?"

"No, no, no," Atletico stretched out his right index finger and shook it gently, "it's just a reference to their creativity, I made it myself." ”

"Hmm? You've already reached a settlement with others to allow the train mod to be put on the shelves, what are you doing with this? Or are you duplicitous and unconvinced?"

On the way back, I saw the news and noticed the controversy surrounding the "Eurasian Land Bridge" MOD, and Atletico Madrid intervened as soon as possible and stood on the side of the MOD team with a clear banner.

Under his interference, the official Bee Store reiterated the listing rules, saying that the painting style and world view issues do not affect the shelves, and such works are welcome. The employee who spoke inappropriately also came forward to apologize, admitting that he had made a mistake in his cognitive bias work. The Continental Bridge team issued a document expressing satisfaction and re-applying for listing, which has now passed the review of the store, and the incident has ended relatively successfully.

As for the threat of prosecution or something, everyone deliberately did not mention it. This thing is like a nuclear weapon, even if you don't need it normally, you have to keep it in your hand as a reliance.

"No, no," Atletico quickly denied, resolutely refusing to accept the hat of "hypocritical villain".

Tang Jiayi asked, "Then what are you for?"

Atletico Madrid didn't answer directly, but asked rhetorically: "Dear, have you seen that train video?"

"Nonsense, of course I've seen it. You're on the hot search because of this, can I not pay attention to it?"

Hearing this, Atletico Madrid raised his eyebrows and asked: "Where is the hot search?

"Neither," the lady shook her head, turning her face to look at someone, "Your supreme directive, Lao Zeng has carried it out to the letter." Bib and Misou have been resolutely on par with the websites of Renxin Peng in the past few days, and the pages are full of positive energy. ”

Speaking of this, she couldn't help but complain again, "Originally, the traffic of Beenet was not as good as that of Za Lang and Du Niang, and after being tossed by you like this, users and market share had to be lost a lot." ”

Sensing her resentment, Atletico explained lightly: "No way, it's always right to be prepared in special times." Anyway, it will only take ten days at most, and it will pass soon. Besides, the scarf and honey search are just defensive products after all, and taking a step back in this regard to win favor will make it easier for games and movies and television to pass the review in the future, right?"

"Hey!" Tang Jiayi only sneered when she heard this, sat up and stared at him directly: "Atletico Madrid, you have changed!

"Anyone can change," Atletico waved his hand, but he didn't want to go into the nitty-gritty of the subject, "Okay, don't talk about that." ”

Pointing to the steam train still running on the TV screen, he introduced: "The Eurasian Land Bridge MOD is actually very simple, they just extracted the locomotives and tracks that decorated the scene in the 'classical battlefield', and forcibly transplanted them into the 'Silk Road' by modifying part of the code, and there was only an extra-long track and a steam locomotive in the whole process, which was monotonous. You see me this, there is a station waiting room at the departure, turnouts, double lines, signal lights on the road, coal water trucks and passenger cars behind the locomotive, and there are stokers, drivers, dispatchers, passengers, fuel, goods and animals, each part is organically combined and interacts with itself, which is a complete railway transportation system. ”

Looking through the memory, Tang Jiayi nodded, "There are really no such things in the video." But it doesn't seem to be important, right? Isn't the biggest attraction of this kind of travel mod just taking the train and seeing the scenery?"

"It's different," Atletico shook his head, "the 'classical battlefield' is set in the European theater of the First World War, and the locomotive is from the map of the capture of the railway station, the model is the Prussian P8 type, and it is full of German flavors. Fortunately, the track gauge is 1435 mm, otherwise it is even more awkward. ”

"Oh?" Tang Jiayi is not a train enthusiast, in her opinion, steam locomotives are all the same, and she didn't notice the difference at all.

Turning her head to look at the train on the screen, she asked again, "So you took that locomotive out and replaced it with a domestic locomotive?"

"No," Atletico shook his head, "this is an imaginary front of the car from our new game, Age of Steam." ”

"It's not that there is no steam locomotive in China, why do you still need to use overhead, didn't you say that the 'steam age' will be on the market next year, and you shouldn't be in a hurry to publicize it now, right?"

"Of course, the steam locomotive is in China, but firstly, the domestic passenger locomotive has long been out of service and retired, and it is impossible to find complete and detailed information, and secondly, the domestic passenger locomotive technology comes from the reverse imitation of the locomotive captured by the South Manchurian Railway, and the wheel configuration is a Pacific style 4-6-2 (4 guide wheels, 6 driving wheels, 2 slave wheels), the American flavor is too strong, and the game atmosphere is not quite consistent. ”

According to the 188th issue of the "Railway Monthly" in 1949, there were 4,069 steam locomotives on the national railways at that time, including 198 models produced by more than 30 factories in eight countries, including Britain, the United States, Germany, France, Japan, Belgium and Russia.

This situation continued for a time into the electric age, when the electric locomotives that ran on the railroad tracks were still from different companies in many countries, and the number of locomotives was greatly reduced. For this reason, the domestic CRS railway signaling system has to take compatibility as the first priority, making it the most compatible product of its kind in the world. It was not until the advent of the high-speed rail era that the situation gradually improved.

"With that in mind, I simply used the front end that we developed ourselves. Although it is said to be overhead, the giant rat studio has made a 1:20 model specifically to confirm that it can be driven and has a certain carrying capacity. ”

The lady was amused by his numbering, "It's just a game, is it so serious?"

"Of course it works, the steam train is now an industrial heritage, a historical testimony, and has a very loyal group of fans. If you are casually perfunctory, you will definitely be sprayed by them. These people are all true love, and whenever a steam train is retired, many fans rush from all over the world to see it off, and the scene is quite spectacular......"

With that, he reached out for his phone and projected a video onto the TV screen, which was the image of a train fan seeing off a steam locomotive.

After watching the video, Tang Jiayi's eyebrows wrinkled, "What age is this, why are there still steam locomotives running now?"

"Of course there are," Atletico nodded, "I won't say that those are for tourism, only a few are true, and the vast majority of them are electric cars with a locomotive shell on the outside." In some coal mines in remote areas, such as the Hami Sandaoling Coal Mine, there are also a number of freight steam locomotives in operation. Although steam locomotives are inefficient and polluting, the coal in the coal mine is not valuable, and it is also a high-polluting enterprise, so naturally there is no need to care about this. ”

"But this didn't last long, most locomotive factories have already switched to the production of electric cars, diesel locomotives are becoming fewer and fewer, and steam locomotives have long been discontinued. Those old locomotives can only be out of service, dismantling parts from other scrapped cars to barely maintain, and when they can't find spare parts, they can only give up completely. ”

"Huh?" Tang Jiayi looked at Atletico and asked, "Why do you suddenly care about this?"

Atletico laughed when he heard it, "You know me or my wife!"

Giving him a blank look, Tang Jiayi asked, "What's the matter?"

"In order to make the 'Steam Age', the giant rat studio collected the information of these steam guys all over the world, and then it was noticed by the agents who specialized in this business, and they specially contacted us for various promotions, and the price was quite cheap, hundreds of thousands, millions of dollars. ”

Tang Jiayi looked at him with a smile: "Then we Ma Dong waved his hand and bought it?

"It's still being repaired. These locomotives are either decommissioned and sealed, or have just been retired from the mine, and the condition of the cars is not very good, and there are either rust defects on them, or repair marks such as plastic pipes and repair tapes, which need to be carefully removed and sorted out to restore their original appearance. ”

"And then, when it's repaired, drive along the railroad?"

"How is that possible?" Atletico turned his head and looked at her with a smile: "The railways around Ludao have been high-speed rail, not to mention that this old-fashioned locomotive can't be driven, and the loss of passenger and freight caused by occupying the right of way alone is a big amount." Rest assured, there will be special extended containers that will be transported to Ludao by rail or road. ”

"Oh, so where are you going to put them?"

"Let's put the bee garden," Atletico said casually, "Look back at the railway cultural park, say it is a railway park, but it turns out that there are only roads and no cars, which is quite regrettable." ”

The railway cultural park in Ludao was originally a 4.5-kilometer-long idle railway, and later the city converted it into a railway-themed ribbon park, because it is adjacent to the old town, the botanical garden, and the nearby Nanputuo Temple and Luda, and it is completely free, and it has always been very popular.

Tang Jiayi didn't have any opinion on donating the locomotive, and instead asked about the overhead train on the screen, "This locomotive is from the 'Steam Age', and the game hasn't been released yet, doesn't it seem like you can use it directly?"

"It's not a big problem, this 'Han Feng' is an abandoned project and will not be implemented in the game. Going back and waiting for the giant rat to put it in the library, I'll have no problem posting it. ”

As he spoke, picking up the handle that had been thrown aside, Atletico Madrid called up the game map, "By the way, look at this!"

Frowning at the criss-crossing network of lines on the screen, Tang Jiayi hesitated and asked, "This is the railway route map, how can you include Outer Mongolia?"

"This is Mr. Nakayama's version of 200,000 miles, and I didn't admit it at the time. ”

On April 1, 1912, Sun Wen was relieved of the post of provisional president and gave way to Yuan Shikai. The latter appointed him as the general governor of the national railway, with an annual salary of 30,000 oceans, and allocated the luxury float (special carriage) specially made for the Empress Dowager Cixi to him to inspect the road conditions.

Mr. Nakayama gladly accepted this fate, claiming that he would "devote himself to the construction of the railway, and build a line of 200,000 miles in ten years." And pinned their hopes on foreigners, hoping to attract foreign capital and adopt the BOT (Build, Operate, Transfer) model to build railways.

However, at that time, the country was only nominally unified, and there were still local warlords who "listened to the tune but did not listen to the propaganda", and his plan could not be carried out at all, until he was dismissed and wanted on July 22, 1913, Sun Wen could not build an inch of railway. The whole map of the railway, which shrouded the country like a spider's web, could only be reduced to what American reporters called "Sun Yat-sen's dream."

In 1921, Sun Wen proposed an upgraded version: 100,000 miles (about 160,000 kilometers) of railways and 1 million miles (about 1.6 million kilometers) of roads would be built for China within ten years.

In 2013, the total length of railways in the country exceeded 100,000 kilometers, second only to the United States, and the length of highways also reached 4.356 million kilometers, ranking behind the United States and the European Union.

The United States is known as a country on wheels, with 6.5 million kilometers of roads. There are also 220,000 kilometers of railways, which is still greatly streamlined, in the era of Sun Yat-sen, this number is 406,000 kilometers, after the 30s, the railway has suffered serious losses, and many companies have closed down and gone bankrupt to sell the tracks. Most of the remaining railways that are still in operation have been transformed into heavy-haul freight railways, which are slow and ugly, but they are more expensive and more profitable.

In contrast, the rabbit leads the world in high-speed railways and highways, ranking first in the world, and lives up to the name of "infrastructure madness".

Turning her head to look at her husband, Tang Jiayi asked curiously: "What are you digging this out for? The cost of building roads in plateau and alpine areas is high and the efficiency is poor, this picture is not realistic at all, okay?"

"It's true that you can't fix it in reality," Atletico nodded, "but in the game you can." I'm going to motivate players to implement this in the game. ”

(End of chapter)