Chapter 80 Road Trains
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It didn't take long for this feeling of walking between heaven and earth to be broken by a sudden huge convoy, and Tang Feng, who was driving, looked at these oncoming behemoths and almost thought that he had encountered an alien fleet.
On the plains of the Australian outback, the boundary between the road and the roadside plain is not very obvious, and driving on this inland sandy road, you can often see a very large, similar to a simple parking lot on the side of the road, which is densely packed with huge ruts.
At first, when Tang Feng saw these huge wheel marks, he wondered how big a car must be to have such a huge rut mark? It's not a mine, and there's certainly no such thing as a huge and friendless mine car. But if it weren't for the kind of mining truck that could carry hundreds of tons, Tang Feng really couldn't think of any other car that could press out such a huge and deep rut on solid ground.
As a result, today Tang Feng finally understood the source of those rut marks.
When Tang Feng drove the Land Rover out of the small town of Mali for about 40 kilometers, he felt the urgency to urinate, and happened to see a huge open space similar to a simple parking lot in front of him, so he was ready to solve his physiological problems there.
As a result, just when Tang Feng was about to turn a corner, he suddenly found that a huge yellow earth dragon suddenly appeared on the road in front of him, and the earth dragon rolled up by his own Land Rover under the high-speed running was spectacular enough, but compared with the earth dragon that just appeared, it was simply a caterpillar compared to the Amazon forest dragon
And the speed of the earth dragon is extremely fast, that is, it is not slow at all compared to the speed of the Land Rover driven by Tang Feng just now. This situation is a clear indication that a large convoy is approaching from afar.
Tang Feng was full of speed, and after waiting for a while, he saw the earth dragon in the distance roaring with billowing smoke and dust, but when approaching this clearing, the earth dragon's speed slowed down.
At this time, Tang Feng didn't care about peeing, sitting in the car and watching the true face of the convoy revealed after the smoke and dust gradually dissipated, he was directly shocked by the huge convoy in front of him and was speechless.
It's not that the vehicles in this convoy are so big, although these cars are some heavy trucks, they are about the same size as those heavy trucks such as Steyr that pulls coal and sand and gravel in China, and what shocked Tang Feng was the length of these vehicles.
The heavy trucks that pull coal and sand and gravel in China must have been seen by the big guys, and these cars are claimed to be able to pull a train wagon with a length of 17 or 8 meters. But even those overloaded and unbelievable heavy trucks in China are nothing compared to the length of these vehicles in front of them.
The length of each of these cars in front of me is more than 30 meters, and the length of the first car and the two cars at the tail are directly more than 50 meters! And these cars are not one, they are all one by one, and from a distance they look like trains running on the road!
Seeing these cars, Tang Feng finally understood where the huge rut marks he saw came from, and finally remembered the origin of these giants.
These cars are the famous "road trains" of the Australian continent!
In the minds of ordinary people, when the word "train" is mentioned, what comes to mind must be those vehicles that are galloping on the rails, whether it is a train, a subway, a city railway or a high-speed railway, ordinary people will think that these means of transportation can be called "trains".
But in Australia, the fierce Australian people have redefined the meaning of the word "train".
As we all know, Australia is a vast and sparsely populated country, and the vast Australian continent makes the construction of railways in Australia very expensive, especially those that go deep into the interior of the railway, so in Australia, the laying and maintenance of railways are limited to part of the coastline.
However, in the inland areas of Australia, there are many places that are very rich in resources, so in order to solve the problem of cargo transportation, the inland and the coast are connected, and the Australian people have developed road trains that connect the inland and coastal areas. Known as the "RoadTrain", these trucks are widely used to transport ore from lead-zinc mines and to deliver goods to remote towns.
Road trains will have a huge locomotive, which is similar to the huge locomotive in "Transformers" when Optimus Prime transformed, and has at least 550 horsepower, so that this special locomotive can easily pull more than 200 tons of cars.
When transporting, at least 3 carriages are towed behind the huge front of the car, and the maximum is 6 cars, with a length of more than 50 meters, which is as long as 11 ordinary cars. When a "Big Mac" travels at a speed of 110 kilometers per hour, it can even produce a "siphon" phenomenon, that is, the cars that meet it will be attracted by the road train, which is very dangerous. Therefore, such large cars are only allowed to drive in the Australian outback where there are few vehicles, and it is regarded as a flowing and unique scenery in the Australian outback.
Of course, there are cargo trailers in other countries, but it is rare to see such a long road train as long as Australia's, especially on the roads of Western Australia, the northern part of South Australia and the Northern Territory. John Atkinson of Brisbane, Australia, drove his Mack van to break the world record by towing 112 trailers with a total length of 1,474 metres, making it the longest road train to date.
Road trains are so long that U-turns are a big problem. However, in the inland areas, there are flat and hard open spaces everywhere, so these road trains can easily make a U-turn on these empty flat land, and the road trains generally do not enter the B-class roads with more vehicles, so the open areas near the high-grade highway towns become the places where these road trains "rest" and turn around. This is also the reason why Tang Feng often sees those huge rut marks when he comes, which are all made by these giants!
And the huge convoy that Tang Feng encountered today was a road train convoy composed of twelve cars!
It seems that after a long journey, this huge road train fleet is a little tired, so it wants to take a break in the open space on the side of the road, and it happens that Tang Feng is also preparing to solve physiological problems here, so Tang Feng's Land Rover and this huge team meet in the empty and desolate wilderness.