■Zhang Qiusheng
The current Taiyuan Locomotive Repair Storage.
Exterior view of the steam locomotive 188bet warehouse of Taiyuan North Locomotive Depot in 1976.
Some time ago, I chatted with a railway master, who told me about the glory of 188bet with relish. My thoughts also flow back at the moment, salvageing the years of steam locomotive repairs in the past.
In October 1990, I participated in railway work. In December, I was assigned to the control group of the steam locomotive 188bet workshop of the Taiyuan North Locomotive Depot. I followed Master Chen Ruyi as an apprentice to repair forward-type and construction-type steam locomotives.
Steam locomotives are divided into rack repair and washing and repair according to their travel kilometers. Frame repair is a comprehensive dismantling, 188bet, assembly and testing of the locomotive.
At that time, before going to work at 8 o'clock every day, the staff of the machinery group, the repair group, the boiler group, the machine tool group, the water pump group, the flaw detection group and other teams changed their work clothes. At 8 o'clock, the foreman named and assigned the work, and everyone began to carry out busy and orderly 188bet operations.
Master Chen said that the steam locomotive 188bet warehouse was designed and built in 1958, with spacious and bright and sturdy walls. When I was repairing the rack in Curry, I stood in the driver's room through the window glass, and could clearly see the boiler plate and bogie. I could also see hundreds of workers around the site wearing red or yellow safety helmets, standing, squatting or bent over, holding hand hammers, wrenches and other tools, and focused on dismantling, unloading and installing spare parts of different sizes and in an orderly manner.
In the warehouse, thick smoke rolled when the furnace was ignited and tested, and the entire 188bet warehouse was filled with the scattered coal dust, dirty cotton silk, waste diesel, etc. were mixed and accumulated over the years, making the 188bet warehouse a black world. The masters' work clothes were also contaminated to black and shining.
At that time, after three months of being an apprentice, I was able to participate in the delivery of the car independently. Every afternoon when I work in the warehouse, I have to check whether the performance of the pressure gauge and safety valve is qualified.
In February 1991, Duanli's forward-type and construction-type steam locomotives were eliminated. In August 1991, there were only more than 10 steam locomotives left in the section for shunting operations. More than 100 of our employees transferred to their posts and began to learn the 188bet knowledge of electric locomotives.
The years are like water, and the years are like songs, and the 188bet locomotive has withdrawn from the stage of history. The forging team, boiler group, machine tool group, furnace washing group and other teams, as well as supporting equipment such as coal grabbers, water cranes, and large turntables gradually disappeared from people's vision.
In August 2008, the Taiyuan North Locomotive Depot and the Taiyuan Locomotive Depot were merged to establish a new Taiyuan Locomotive Depot. In order to improve the 188bet capacity of electric locomotives, since April 2012, the office building of the north district of Taiyuan Locomotive Depot, the first warehouse of the fixed repair warehouse, and the second warehouse of the fixed repair warehouse have been demolished one after another.
Now, there is a modern electric locomotive 188bet base, which is responsible for the 188bet of Shaoshan Type 4 electric locomotive.
The pictures in this article are provided by Zhang Qiusheng
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