(Walking to the grassroots level in the Spring Festival) Railway shunter: the train "programmer" behind the Spring Festival travel

  Chinanews.com, Guizhou Kaili, January 24th: (New Year's grassroots walk) Railway shunter: The train "programmer" behind the Spring Festival travel

  Author Qu Honglun Peng Liang

  "Ten cars, five cars, three cars, slow down, close to continuous... Stop!" During the Spring Festival travel period, a busy scene in the shunting yard of Kaili Railway Station in Kaili City, Qiandongnan Miao and Dong Autonomous Prefecture, Guizhou Province.

With the sound of a password, the shunting commander Liu Jun and three co-workers directed the freight vehicles to smoothly drive into the "predetermined" lane.

  Liu Jun and three co-workers are railway shunters. The oldest is 33 years old and the youngest is 27 years old. The Kaili Railway Station where they are located is a second-class station and is one of the important stations of the Shanghai-Kunming Railway. Train transfer marshalling task.

  The Spring Festival is approaching, and the New Year commodities, bulk materials, and LTL cargoes are intensively transited and organized, and the amount of shunting operations remains high.

Liu Jun and his three partners appeared in various places in the yard.

Yang Zhu, the connector, walked with the car in the car.

Photo by Peng Liang

  "Our job is to disassemble the freight trains and reassemble them according to different directions. It's like 'threading the needles' for the trains and forming a new train to set off." Our freight trains are disassembled, linked, and regrouped, escorting each freight train to the right direction, and delivering the goods to thousands of households as soon as possible.

"Because of this, some people compare us to 'programmers'."

  According to Liu Jun, the shunting team of Kaili Railway Station has an average of more than 70 shunting operations per day, with an average of more than 360 vehicles mobilized daily. It is estimated that 14,400 freight vehicles will be mobilized during the Spring Festival travel period.

  "Start, start..." After confirming that he was ready, Liu Jun, who was on the bicycle ladder and his body close to the vehicle, operated the radio station to give instructions, and precisely directed the shunting machine to carry out the pull-out operation.

The 31-year-old Liu Jun has been in charge of shunting work on the railway for 7 years after retiring from the army. For the past 7 years, he has always maintained a rigorous, meticulous and capable state.

  "Climb on a fast train, like riding a galloping horse..." The situation depicted in the episode "Playing My Beloved Pipa" in the movie "Railway Guerrilla" is a portrayal of the daily work of a shunter.

However, the shunters in the cold winter are not so dashing.

Liu Jun told reporters that shunting is an open-air operation throughout the whole process, sweating on sunny days, water on rainy days, and ice and fire in winter.

"Especially on rainy days, wearing a raincoat is like heavy rain outside and light rain inside."

  "No. 2 requests to enter the line work." "Agree..." After getting the permission of the shunting commander, the connector Guan Zesen used the radio, pressed the emergency stop signal, put on double gloves, and drilled between the two cars skillfully. Close the corner plug door, remove the air duct, and lift the coupler, all in less than 30 seconds.

Connector Guan Zesen opened the hinged plug door.

Photo by Peng Liang

  "No. 2 requests to enter Lane 6 for re-inspection." After a while, a freight car was formed into a line, and Guan Zesen used a radio station to report to the operation room for joint control.

He stopped and stopped on the road, checking the anti-slip status of each vehicle, the condition of the door closed, the coupling state, whether the air duct was connected, and whether the corner plug door was opened. After the inspection of 45 vehicles, his face Sweat.

  At the end of the day, Guan Zesen and his co-workers got on and off the bus, bent over, bent over, and stood up a hundred times. The sports bracelet on his hand recorded more than 26,000 steps.

"Since I did the shunting work, I have grown from fat to strong, my body is very good, and I have become more confident." Guan Zesen said.

  On New Year's Eve in 2022, Liu Jun, Guan Zesen and two other workers will spend their time at their posts to ensure the transfer of freight trains.

Among them, Guan Zesen's hometown is the farthest, which is more than 2,700 kilometers away in Tieling City, Liaoning Province. Due to the new crown pneumonia epidemic and the shift system, he has not returned to his hometown to reunite with his family during the Spring Festival for three consecutive years.

  "Anyway, technology is also developed now. If you miss your relatives, you can make a video call." Guan Zesen told reporters that seeing countless supplies sent from their hands to thousands of households, I will feel a sense of pride in my heart. This persistence is very important. worth.

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