Doomsday Bunker Upgrade Chapter 709: Passenger train

In the train factory in Jianning, Chen Xinzheng had a meeting with the people from the factory.

The content discussed at the meeting was still about the manufacture and design of nuclear-powered locomotives. In addition to the current domestic railway passenger transport that the country intends to gradually resume, Chen Xin and the others mainly discussed the issues after the completion of the Asia-Europe railway line. Crew preparation problem.

“At present, the most important demand for the Asia-Europe railway line is the demand for freight logistics, so the most demanded are general-purpose container trucks, gondolas for bulk cargo, refrigerated trucks for frozen food, and transportation of coal, grains and grains. Hopper trucks, tank trucks that transport gasoline and other liquids and other freight cars.” A staff member was holding a report and explaining to the participants: “The demand for container trucks is the largest here, and there are also a large number of hopper trucks. needs, other..."

The content of what the staff said was quite long and exhausting, and it involved a lot of professional-related matters. Others in the meeting might listen very attentively, but for Chen Xin, he just listened to the content and passed it. Most of them are not directly related to him.

This undoubtedly caused him to become a little distracted while listening, thinking about the situation in Europe.

Chen Xin is undoubtedly familiar with the situation in Europe. After all, most of the goods that Europe can provide to China are the output obtained under his single-handed management.

At present, Europe's domestic imports are mainly industrial raw materials such as various ores and crude oil, while domestic exports to Europe are mainly foreign trade ordnance, some grains, and living materials.

Previously, freight land-based ships traveled from China to Europe, mainly using freight containers when loading goods, but when returning from Europe, it is not easy to use containers to load the goods.

After all, most of the ore is in bulk, and it is easy to cause damage to the container when packed in containers.

So the practice at that time was to initially smelt the ore, and then put the ingots that were refined into raw ore into containers.

But even so, it was still very inconvenient, and Chen Xin had to design a universal cargo box to solve the problem.

As for the oilfields in the North Sea after the resumption of work, the oil products produced also faced the same problem. Fortunately, the output was not high at that time, and most of them were used for the logistical needs of the European defense lines.

However, barreled transportation will undoubtedly greatly increase the transportation cost and reduce the transportation volume at the same time. If the transportation volume was not very small at that time, Chen Xin would have wanted to make two land-based ships for oil transportation to transport oil products back to China. .

But now... Listening to the introduction of the staff, it seems that it is going to be transported by a tanker.

Chen Xin felt irrefutable about this.

In terms of transportation, tankers can of course be used to transport oil products, but it is better to use them to transport refined oil, because the transportation capacity of tankers is too low to transport crude oil.

A common tank car weighs about 50-70 tons and has a volume of about 50-70 cubic meters. Even if it is calculated according to a train grouping a hundred tanks, a train can pull several thousand tons. around the refined oil.

It sounds like a lot, but it's not too much. Even the largest 120-cubic long tanker can pull more than 10,000 tons.

And obviously, it is impossible to have a train with more than 100 sections, all of which are trailers.

So relatively speaking, it is more cost-effective for a large-capacity transport vehicle like a ship.

This is also why in the past, in addition to oil tankers, oil pipelines were used to transport crude oil and refined oil, and trains were rarely used.

Thinking of this, Chen Xin suddenly felt that he might be able to reuse those oil tankers. Anyway, they are just like other ships. Most of them are frozen in the port. People are interested, or they will simply be dismantled into scrap steel.

However, when Chen Xin was thinking about these questions, the staff suddenly brought up a topic that interested him.

"According to the requirements of Europe, they hope to open a passenger train with my country. Although the country has not agreed to this matter, the Ministry of Railways has asked us to come up with a feasible design plan." The staff asked to attend the meeting of people introduced.

Hearing this, Chen Xin asked, "European requests to open passenger trains? Are they trying to escape?"

"We don't know about that. The Ministry of Railways just asked us to come up with a design plan for a passenger train." The staff was also curious about this question, but apparently he had no way to answer it.

Chen Xin himself can answer this question, and the question is just a casual question. After asking, since no one answered, he doesn't care, so he asks another question: "Passenger trains are indeed a very worthy of attention. Not only the trains on the European side, but also the domestic countries intend to resume passenger trains, do you have a mature passenger train design now?"

After asking this question, Chen Xin looked at the staff of the train factory with anticipation.

Chen Xin had visited the nuclear-powered trains that were still in the test before, including passenger carriages, but that was all a few years ago, and the train factory only came up with a conceptual design plan.

And due to the limited number of nuclear powered locomotives at that time, these nuclear powered locomotives were used for the transportation of important materials~IndoMTL.com~, which was previously used for disaster relief and transfer of victims in the southwest region and relocation of people around Dongting Lake. At that time, a mobile shelter composed of nuclear-powered locomotives was used.

Now that several years have passed, Chen Xin is curious if they have come up with a new and more practical design.

The staff did not live up to Chen Xin's expectations, and they quickly came up with a design plan for the passenger train.

“At present, the passenger carriages that we have that can be grouped with nuclear power noses are mainly divided into two types: hard-seat carriages for short-distance use and hard-sleeper carriages for long-distance use, as well as supporting functional carriages. It is not a problem to come up with a feasible plan." The staff explained to Chen Xin, and also showed various functional carriages one by one: "These functional carriages are all our researchers and designs over the past few years. The results of the personnel's efforts, considering that the requirement is to carry out a long-distance passenger journey to Europe, in the train formation, more consideration should be given to the content of logistical supply and support. After all, there is no supply for thousands of kilometers. /

And also need to consider the problem of snow removal, thousands of kilometers of railway, if there is a snow-covered section that is difficult to pass, it is also a very troublesome thing..."