When I was a child, I looked forward to my father taking me to see the train. When I didn't see a train, I often heard adults tell me that the train was very long, very strong, so big, faster than a horse, roaring, and loud. I tried to imagine what the train would look like, but I couldn't imagine what the train would look like. So, I felt more and more that the train was amazing, amazing!
At the foot of Qinling Mountain, thirty miles south of the village, no matter day or night, there are many trains coming from the east and going from the west. During the day, when the train passed, my partners and I stood at the head of the south slope of the village and watched, but we saw a white line at the foot of the mountain from east to west, or from west to east like a white snake wriggling, very slow, faintly like a white line, that was the train! It was slowly moving forward, moving. From time to time, I heard the dull roar of the train whistle, and the train still passed at the foot of the Qinling Mountain. But seeing the lights at the foot of the mountain, the sound of the clatter of the train passing by is clear to the ear. What did the train look like? At that time, none of us could tell. Later, I finally saw the train in the movie, in the villain book, and ah! The train is speeding on the railroad tracks, like a long iron dragon, with no head in front and no tail in the back, pulling people and transporting goods at the same time, and it is extremely powerful! That speed is amazing! Since then, I have had a dream that one day when I go to the foot of the Qinling Mountains, I want to see the real train with my own eyes, and experience the real feeling of the train whizzing past.
This day came so suddenly that I was excited. This day came at a bad time, and it made me sad. Because, my grandfather suddenly fell seriously ill, and my father would pull my grandfather in a rack car, cross the Wei River, and go to a military hospital at the foot of Qinling Mountain in the south to see my grandfather. Grandpa was sick and sitting on the frame car, and my father was driving, with a melancholy face. I cried so much that tears rippled down my eyes, and I just didn't lose my hand by pulling the handlebars, and I just wanted to go with my father. The mother on the side reluctantly told her father, let Ba Dan follow, let Ba Dan follow. As he spoke, he helped me into the car. (Ba Dan is my grandfather's nickname) and my grandfather sat next to each other in the bed......
The blue granite stones are evenly stacked under the rails, and the oiled sleepers are one meter away and one meter away, one meter away, and one is laid under the two parallel rails, like a huge and incomparably long ladder, embedded in the roadbed made of cyan stones, constantly stretching into the distance, with no head in front and no tail in the back...... After seeing my grandfather, my father took him and me to the railroad to fulfill my wish to see the train.
Soon, a train roared from east to west towards us. Black smoke billowed from the thick chimney on the head of a huge train. With the whining of the whistle, white water vapor bubbled out. Click! click...... Woo woo woo woo hoo -- the train is awesome! -- The long carriages are one after the other, whizzing by, and the train seems to have no head or tail, which is really spectacular......
I was happy for a long time when I saw the train, and when I got to the village, I boasted: I saw the real train, I saw the real train!
In the sixties and seventies, when the industry was relatively backward, the perennial closed rural life imprisoned people's vision. The outside world fills the hearts of our rural children with infinite yearning and curiosity. Ever since I saw the train with my own eyes, my eyes have been opened: Wow! The outside world is so big! Curious things are beyond people's imagination!
Within a few years, all the trains on the Longhai Line I saw became diesel locomotives, and steam locomotives gradually withdrew from the stage of history. With the development of industrial electrification, trains have entered the era of electrification. Tower-like poles have been erected on the railway line. Diesel locomotives were replaced by electric locomotives. The construction of the motherland is developing rapidly, the trains are constantly replacing the old with the new, the industrial revolution is advancing by leaps and bounds, and the pace of the construction of the motherland is changing with each passing day! The history of railways and highways is increasing year by year, and railways and highways extend in all directions. There are more trains, more cars, and urban and rural transportation is becoming more and more perfect and developed. Eight or nine years ago, I was fortunate to take a train for the first time in my life, and I felt the feeling of riding a train. At that time it was already an electric locomotive. Sitting on the train, I feel much more comfortable than in a car. It's really safe and fast, comfortable and advanced! Back in the village, I can't help but praise the beauty of the train to the guys!
In recent years, our lives have entered the era of docking operation of high-speed rail and subway, and it has become more and more convenient for people to travel and consign goods. There are two railway stations in my hometown of Dali, one is in Weizhuang, which is an ordinary train station, and most of them are stopped by trucks, and there are also passenger cars passing by. One is in the south of Xuzhuang Town, north of Dali, which is a high-speed rail station. In the past few years, I have traveled back and forth between my hometown Dali and the provincial capital Xi'an, often taking high-speed rail and subway, and feeling the comfortable passage of high-speed rail and subway. Whether it is a high-speed rail or a subway, the facilities in the car are simple and modern, making people feel refreshed when riding. Whether it is high-speed rail or subway, the biggest advantage of the two is fast, comfortable and convenient!
In the past, when there was no high-speed rail in Dali County, people went to Xi'an, the provincial capital, to take long-distance buses. All the way to stop and go, shaky, as little as three or four hours of travel, when encountering a traffic jam, from Dali to Xi'an, it takes four or five hours. It's so slow that people are anxious, and it's so sleepy that people are sleepy. After the opening of the high-speed railway, Dali Station is the only county-level station in the Weinan area of eastern Shaanxi. It only takes more than half an hour to get from Dali to Xi'an. Now it's much more convenient and faster to travel back and forth between Xi'an and Dali. After getting off the subway and taking the high-speed rail, I returned to the door of Dali in the blink of an eye, which is amazing!
High-speed rail is comparable to a land plane, and it brings people a safer and faster trip. Now, I want to proudly say to you: The train passes from my hometown, and our life is really happy! Welcome to Dali to play, the scenery of Dali is really not bad!
(Author: Wang Jinzhuan)