CCTV news: "China Cold Pole" is located in Jinhe Town, Genhe City, Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region, with an annual minimum temperature of minus 58 degrees Celsius. There is a century-old Yalin Railway, which is the only way for people along the line to enter and leave the mountains. In extremely cold weather, 8 line workers of China Railway Harbin Bureau Group Co., Ltd. have to work outdoors every day to ensure the smooth flow of the railway.
About 40 kilometers from the work area to the work site, it takes 40 minutes by car and 10 minutes by rail car, and the construction window time of the workers is only three and a half hours, which is very tense.
The Yalin Railway runs 523 kilometers from Mangui in the east to Hailar in the west, running the only passenger train to "Lengji Village" 4184 times, with a minimum fare of 5 yuan. When the snow closed the mountain, this slow train, which has been running for more than 40 years, has become the only way for people along the line to enter and exit the mountain, so it is particularly important to ensure that the line is smooth and stable in winter.
The wiring worker's equipment is a pile of fifty or sixty pounds of iron lumps, but it is a meticulous technical work. In order to balance the two undulating rails, they needed to put a special pad under the track to adjust the height, and the unit of measurement was calculated in millimeters. Because it is located in the depths of the dense forest, the line here has many curves and slopes, and there are more than 20,000 pads replaced in a year.
Zhang Dianguo, foreman of jinlin engineering section of Hailar Engineering Section of China Railway Harbin Bureau: My father came from Hebei in 1958, when he was building the Yalin Line, like my father, they were not like cement pillows now, they used to be wooden pillows. Now the conditions are better, all replaced by high-strength cement pillows, all mechanized.
With the closure of the national natural forest protection project, Jinlin has transformed from a small forest farm into a national winter tourism destination "Lengji Village", so that it can receive more than 10,000 tourists every winter, and this railway has gradually become a hot tourist line, which has also added new significance to the protection of Zhang Dianguo and his friends.
Zhang Dianguo said that his father had worked for thirty years, and now he has worked for thirty years, and the father and son have accompanied this forest railway through a whole one. Maybe one day, the high-speed rail will also be built into the mountains, repaired to the "cold pole", at that time, the technology is more advanced, may not need these old guys, but before that, they still have to guard this railway.
Source: CCTV