The Chief "Dancer" in the Snowstorm

Original title: The Chief "Dancer" in the Snowstorm

"Uh--" At 21:00 on the night of February 6, the cold wind was like a knife, the cold rain was falling, and in the operation field of loudi railway station, Tang Xiangming, a connector, was walking through the train, connecting, advancing, pulling out, protecting, a series of work down, looking up, the thermometer at the entrance of the inter-breaker pointed to minus 2 ° C.

Loudi Railway Station is located at the intersection of Shanghai-Kunming and Yizhan Railways. There are 43 lines in the station, running more than 190 trains every day, and one train passes by every 3 minutes when dense, and the average daily operation requires the dismantling of 60 trucks and the dismantling of more than 3,300 vehicles, which is an important railway hub in central Hunan Province.

Tang Xiangming, a post-95s linker in the station's operation workshop, joined the work in 2016 from Chenzhou, Hunan Province, and the 26-year-old ushered in his 7th Spring Festival this year.

Connectors are a little-known job on the railway, and they need to "thread" vehicles from different directions, form a complete train, and then drive to the destination. Shunting work requires frequent climbing on the ladder of the vehicle, and the operation will get on and off the train during the operation, so it is also called shunting "dancer".

"When the train was running, the wind was strong, Tang Xiangming wore fewer clothes than us, and sometimes when he saw him climbing on the train, his clothes were blown up, and everyone called him 'chief dancer.'" Colleague Li Jianming said playfully.

"Winter shunting work, wearing less is frozen, wearing more is not convenient to move, but I have a little experience in grasping the amount of clothing." Talking about everyone's name for him, Tang Xiangming explained with a smile. Hands and feet constantly enter the gear to remove the brake hose, stand in a safe place to lift the hook, pull out the protection, advance the lookout, repeat the prescribed actions of various shunting operations, he is the reason behind the personable "dancer".

The time is close to 1 a.m., Tang Xiangming is still busy in the marshalling field, unconsciously, he has walked nearly 20 times back and forth in the marshalling field, the soles of his feet are hot, but his stomach is empty, by taking a short break in the lounge, Tang Xiangming soaked in a bowl of hot noodles.

"It's too cold, frozen hands, it's really not okay without this instant noodles, after eating the hands and stomach are warmer, the work is more energetic." Tang Xiangming, who was holding the instant noodles in his hand, did not have time to drink a few more mouthfuls of hot soup, and the radio notice was about to start the next batch of homework, Tang Xiangming put down the instant noodles, picked up the gloves, and trotted all the way...

"During the Spring Festival, the amount of work was large, and in the second half of the night, it was useless to wear more clothes, and the wind and snow hit the face together, and the face really hurt." Tang Xiangming rubbed his face and said that the second half of the night was an important time period for shunting work, the temperature became lower, and people were sleepy. "When I can't stand it, I will turn on the faucet and wash my face with cold water and wake up."

"After the Spring Festival began, I walked more than 30,000 steps a day and got on and off the vehicle more than 100 times." Tang Xiangming said that Loudi, located in Central Hunan Province, is particularly cold and long at night, and the temperature during the Spring Festival is often below zero degrees Celsius.

"It's snowing! It's snowing! Quietly, a snowflake gently fell between Tang Xiangming's eyebrows, he reached out his hand, and then shouted excitedly to his colleagues, raised his hand to look at his watch, it was more than 3 a.m.

"South 9 Air Line! Advance, advance. Under the night sky, Tang Xiangming stood on the train ladder, sideways and constantly watching the front of the train running, under the faint light of the flashlight, against the background of snowflakes in the sky, a dancing dancer floating in the wind and snow, constantly "dancing" in the busy marshalling field, one train after another filled with goods, after his "assembly", drove to the far side... (Zhou Dongdong, Xiong Fangxian)

Source: Zhonggong Net - Workers Daily