All in all, the construction of the regional railway has fully implemented the principle of adapting measures to local conditions and simplifying the poor, and compared with Line 9, which was basically built according to the standards of the old world, the regional railway is indeed very "temporalized".

By the way, in a hurry in the future, the railway construction used the engineering equipment of the old world, which was the last time that the engineering equipment brought by the old world appeared in the new world, and since then, all the engineering equipment has been sealed again, so the Han people on the island and the students of Zhuyuan Sunflower have witnessed the "magic machine" for the last time, and after a few months, these equipment are permanently sealed, and eventually become an eternal legend in the new world, these "magic machines" are gradually forgotten by the next generation, In the end, it only exists in the secrets that have been handed down in later generations, and in the exploratory writings of people and mystics......

December 15, 1659 was a memorable day, which was later designated as the annual Commonwealth of Australia's Railway Festival, which is an official holiday of the industry.

Because this day is very commemorative in the eyes of the travelers.

At 10 o'clock in the morning of the same day, 120 boys and girls from Zhuyuan gathered outside the gate of the new factory of the Xiliuhe Shuguang Machinery Factory, surrounded by 28 men and women in the Red Building, and people witnessed the real scientific and technological progress that took place in the new world at the gate of the factory - the birth of the Tengyun 040 water tank steam locomotive.

This kind of steam locomotive weighs up to 20 tons, from the appearance, and the two Stephen 0-4-0 water tank steam locomotives from the old world have many differences, obviously, Cheng Dongluo boss they did not simply build this locomotive according to the cat and tiger, but refer to other technical information, this in addition to the basic structure of the Stephen locomotive, the size and layout of the water tank is very different from the former, of course, the most conspicuous place, is that the density of the boiler shell rivets of this locomotive is greater.

This locomotive was named "Tengyun" by Chengdong - although the maximum speed of the locomotive is only 38 kilometers per hour, but the 10th locomotive is completely made by the traversers who rely on the technological conditions of this time and space, everyone has been waiting for this day for many years, and now the dream has finally become a reality, which is really exciting.

Tengyun is a rectangular body, rectangular boiler, rectangular water tank and quadrangular cab, in addition to the wooden roof of the cab, so that this locomotive is very "cute" in the eyes of the traversers, but in the eyes of the male and female students in the bamboo garden and the surrounding Han people, this wheezing and spewing water vapor, the deafening whistle roar is a typical steel monster, although the people on the island have long been immune to steam locomotives, but the smoke and whistle of this locomotive are indeed a little too loud, So when the whistle sounded when the Tengyun started sounded, it still made the onlookers exclaim together in fright......

Today's protagonist is actually Cao Limei - today, she presided over the construction of the Xiliuhe Industrial Zone, a key part of the branch railway - the reinforced concrete structure of the Xiliuhe Bridge was officially opened to traffic today, and the construction of the branch railway across the Xiliuhe Industrial Zone was officially started.

Today's task of Tengyun is to tow four wagons to the steel mill a few kilometers away, where it will carry 30 tons of light rail to the Xiliuhe Bridge, Cao Limei's construction plan is to take the bridge as the starting point, so that the railway line will extend to the east and west banks of the Xiliu River at the same time, this overall construction has made Hou Xianglin, who is far away in Xin'ancheng, full of praise.

The construction of the subgrade of the feeder railway has already begun, although it has been intermittent lately, but fortunately the labor force of the naturalized village has arrived, and a total of 240 strong laborers have been assigned to the construction site.

Somewhat unexpectedly, the number of workers willing to come to Mornington Island far exceeded expectations, and there is a reason for this -

Just a month ago, there was a wave of marriages in five naturalization camps in Sin'an, when Australians announced that they would recruit couples to work in the south at a generous salary of two taels of silver per person per month, where they would become labourers in a commercial organization called Oceania United Railway Co., Ltd. (Oceanic United Railway).

Australians announced that all employees of OCEAN United Rail will be provided with food and accommodation, and work clothes will be distributed free of charge.

In addition, the status of "trade labor" of OCEAN Union employees will be shortened to six and a half years - Australians stipulate in the labor contract that all employees who have "worked honestly" in the company for six and a half years will obtain Australian federal citizenship one and a half years earlier than those in ordinary naturalization camps, and will receive land and settlement allowances from the Australian Commonwealth.

The Oceania United Railway Co., Ltd. was established in early November, and the board of directors of the "North Bound Fund" finally approved the project of the railway company in Sung Dong, because the labor recruitment operation in the naturalization camp and the naturalization village in Sin'an City was very successful, thus solving the labor problem of railway construction in one fell swoop.

Because Chengdong was busy for a while, so it is still Cao Limei who is responsible for directing this group of laborers to carry out construction, the railway first extends to the northeast to the pyrite area, and then turns west to reach the Xiliuhe Bridge, Mornington Island is flat, and it is not too difficult to repair the road, plus the foundation laid by the early roadbed exploration and construction, the construction team has sufficient labor, and in just one week, a more than ten kilometers long half-meter-high compacted earthwork roadbed has been repaired to the smelter.

When the roadbed arrived, the construction content changed, the construction vehicles and some people continued to build the roadbed, and some people began to lay cement sleepers, which were transported from the cement factory by Tengyun with wagons, and the rails in the smelter's warehouse could be laid nearby as soon as the sleepers were laid.

The first is to lay the smelter to the machine plant this section of the five-kilometer track, when the track and the machine factory vehicle manufacturing car rail, the whole project in terms of progress and labor intensity is finally getting better, the flatbed car is also dragged onto the track, can be transported from the smelter warehouse to the construction site every day.

When the locomotive dragged four wagons loaded with concrete sleepers and steel rails, and spewed smoke at a high speed of 35 kilometers per hour at a high speed, the people working on both sides of the railway could not help but stop their work and watch this "spectacle" together, and it took a long time for people to become accustomed to this situation.

In late December, the feeder railway was built to the seawater chemical plant, and then connected to the Red Wharf branch line.

In the process of railway construction, everyone highly praised Cao Limei's railway construction plan, it turns out that the whole construction process presided over by the sister is arranged very strictly and scientifically, and the labor deployment is also very exquisite.

On the twentieth day of the project, the railroad tracks were laid into the warehouse area of the Baisha Group's Lian Alkali Plant, so that in the entire area on the west bank of the Xiliu River, the construction of the railway and the transportation of sleepers have also become labor-saving and efficient, and two days later, the coal-fired stockpile of the thermal power plant on the east bank of the Xiliu River has also been connected to the railway, so the thermal power plant and the lignite mining area in the west of the island are also connected through this branch line.

Subsequently, the west bank of the branch line was extended to the Xiliuhe estuary wharf planning area (which is still a desolate bay beach), and there was a railway next to the roaster of the coal coking plant of Baisha Group, which greatly reduced the labor intensity of loading and unloading materials and greatly improved the labor efficiency, which greatly alleviated the labor shortage of Baisha Group.