#Headline Creation Challenge#Green trains, as most of the Chinese means of transportation from the fifties and sixties to around 2000, have been an indelible memory in the past half a century! Including me, a fifty-four-year-old half-old man, riding the green train seems to have been twenty years ago!
Yesterday came to Gongyi dozens of kilometers away from Luoyang to do errands, came by a friend's car, yesterday the matter was not over, the friend returned to Luoyang in advance, left me to stay in Gongyi for one night, in the afternoon bought a train ticket from Gongyi to Luoyang online, only eleven dollars, at that time it felt really cheap! It's just a box of cigarettes.
I remember that the last time I took the train was five or six years ago, and for more than ten years, I basically drove every trip, including traveling abroad, basically as a family, and rarely took a train! For riding in a green car, it feels like a matter of the last century. I bought the K177 train, checked the timetable, it turned out to be a fast train from Zhengzhou to Xining!
Since I hadn't been on a train for five or six years, suddenly it felt like waiting in the waiting hall was really far away. Looking at the train number prompt on the big screen, it suddenly reminded me of how I felt when I was riding a train for the first time when I was young! After entering the station, several young students looked at the green train in front of them, and involuntarily picked up their mobile phones to take pictures of the "fresh" green train. I couldn't help but pick up my phone and take a few pictures.
This scene reminds me of how I felt when I was riding a train for the first time when I was young! I remember it was still the nineties of the last century, I had just joined the work, I was still a hairy guy, I had just paid my salary at that time, and it was only tens of dollars! No more than eighty pieces. Just discuss with the workers to take the train to Zhengzhou, the largest city in my mind! Go and see the Erqi Memorial Tower that you yearn for. Then visit the then famous Zhengzhou Asia!
At that time, you didn't need an ID card to take the train! And the train ticket is not such a magnetic, with stored passenger information train ticket, at that time the train ticket was a hard card that only showed simple information such as the number of trains, travel time, departure station to destination, that is, a large eraser size, really accidentally lost, who picked up who can directly get on the train with the ticket!
And at that time, electric locomotives were not popular, most of them were steam locomotives, and the train always huffed and "gasped" whenever it encountered a big uphill, and it seemed that an old scalper who could not pull the sleeve drove slowly on the rails. At that time, the speed of the green train was up to 120 kilometers, and the average speed was fifty or sixty kilometers. I remember that trip to Zhengzhou, which was also the first time I took the train in my life, and I was very excited in my heart, clutching the cardboard ticket in my hand, for fear of losing it! The first time I entered the waiting hall of the train station, I also felt very curious, I remember that it was midsummer, there was no air conditioning in the waiting hall, the dirty and hot waiting hall was filled with a burst of sweat, smelly feet, people at that time were not very particular, the station management was not strict, people waiting for the train casually spread newspapers on the ground and lay anywhere. Hearing the sound of the radio about the entrance to the check-in, people flocked to the ticket gates! At that time, there were really many people, and I and the other two co-workers couldn't see each other, and my figure was relatively thin at that time, and even my feet were squeezed into the air! Feet on the ground were squeezed to the ticket gate with the flow of people waiting for the train! The ticket inspector is also quick to scan the ticket, pick up the ticket pliers and pick up an opening on the ticket, even if the ticket is passed.
I remember buying a passing ticket from Xining to Shanghai, and the fare was only more than two yuan! Luoyang is also a big station, and there are so many people on the bus! Out of the ticket gate, people scattered and rushed to the door like a flood through the gate! As a result, the conductor next to the train also looked at the ticket, and even didn't even look at the ticket, in fact, he was frightened by the flow of people in front of him and couldn't care about the ticket verification, and the people who got on the train couldn't wait for the people to get off the train, and they squeezed the door handle in a swarm, and some legs and feet slipped directly into the window and entered the carriage! You can imagine that it was difficult to take the train back then! At that time, it was purely that there were fewer cars and more people, and the quality of people at that time was not as high as it is now, and I am afraid that today's young people do not believe it at all!
It's hard to squeeze into the car, good guy Ten people in the carriage squeezed everyone next to each other, and there was not even a place to put their feet, let alone the air in the carriage! It was extremely hot, and the green leather car at that time did not have air conditioning at all, just relying on the fan on the roof to squeak and shake the head and tail of the fan to cool down, in fact, when it encountered many people, it didn't work at all! People are like canned sardines stuffed in carriages full of spicy and sour smells, enjoying the fun of the journey. Many people are looking forward to getting to a relatively large station with more people and being able to make a place, so they make reservations in advance and ask the seated passengers when to get off the train, some of them fall asleep with newspapers under the seats, some people sit casually on the floor and even sit on the luggage rack!
Encountering such an amazing scene on the train for the first time really shocked me, a fledgling guy! In fact, with this experience, in the process of dozens of train journeys in the future, I have slept under the seat many times, nestled on the ground at the junction of the two carriages, and even hid in the toilet for half an hour without coming out to let the outside knock on the door, in order to be able to exchange for a relaxed independent environment!
With the development and progress of the times and the popularity of private cars and high-speed rail aircraft, coupled with the accelerating pace of people's lives, most people travel by public transportation, and most of them choose bullet trains, high-speed rail, and airplanes. For green trains, there are many fewer than before. Especially for today's young people, let alone take the green train, even if you see it, it may not be common!
In fact, as a mass transportation passenger tool of the era, the green train is still very popular with ordinary people! The main reason why most of these migrant workers choose the Green Train is to save money! Even if an ordinary hard seat is one or two thousand kilometers across provinces, it is only three or two hundred ticket money! Secondly, for some backpackers who have enough time and like to travel, compared to taking the high-speed rail train, they can save travel costs, but also enjoy the wind along the way, the most important thing is that the current green trains are already electrically driven, so the upper cooling and heating equipment is complete, which ensures the relative comfort of the journey to the greatest extent. A popular song in previous years called "Take the train to Lhasa", and now the train to Lhasa is also equipped with oxygen inhalation equipment, which is more limited to ensure the safety of passengers!
If one day, you have time, will you choose to take your beloved on the green train, towards poetry and the distance, a leisurely, leisurely, walk-and-go trip? #Traveling by train#