Doomsday Bunker Upgrade

In Jianning's train factory, Chen Xin was having a meeting with people from the factory.

The content discussed at the meeting was still about the manufacture and design of nuclear-powered locomotives. Apart from the domestic railway passenger transport that the country plans to gradually resume, what Chen Xin and the others mainly discussed was about the train crew establishment after the Asia-Europe railway line was completed. question.

"Currently, the main demand for the Asia-Europe railway line is the demand for freight logistics, so the most demanded are general-purpose container trucks, open-air cars for bulk cargo, refrigerated trucks for frozen food, hopper cars for transporting coal, grain and grain. Freight carriages such as tank trucks that transport gasoline and other liquids." A staff member was holding a report and explaining to the participants: "Container trucks are the most in demand, and hopper trucks are also in great demand. Others of……"

What the staff said was quite lengthy and involved a lot of professional related matters. The other people in the meeting might have listened very attentively, but for Chen Xin, he just listened to these contents and passed them by one ear. Most of them were Not directly related to him.

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

As for the situation in Europe, Chen Xin undoubtedly has a better understanding. After all, most of the goods that Europe can provide to the country now are the output obtained under his single-handed management.

At present, the imports from Europe are mainly industrial raw materials such as various ores and crude oil, while the domestic exports to Europe are mainly foreign trade arms, some grains, and daily necessities.

Previously, cargo land ships traveled from China to Europe, and they mainly used freight containers for loading, but when they returned from Europe, it was not easy to use containers to load the cargo.

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

So the practice at that time was to carry out preliminary smelting of the ore, and then refine it into raw ore ingots and then pack them into containers.

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

As for the resumption of work in the oil fields in the North Sea, 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 logistics needs of the European defense line. Only a part of them was shipped back to China after being barreled.

But the barreled transportation undoubtedly greatly increased the transportation cost, and at the same time reduced the transportation volume. If the transportation volume was not so large at that time, Chen Xin would have wanted to build two land cruisers dedicated to transporting oil back to China.

But now... after listening to the staff's introduction, it seems that it is going to be transported by an oil tanker.

Chen Xin felt undeniable about this.

In terms of transportation, tank trucks can of course be used to transport oil products, but it is best used to transport refined oil, because the transportation volume of tank trucks is too low for crude oil.

Generally, the weight of a common tank car is about 50-70 tons, and the volume is about 50-70 cubic meters. Even if it is calculated based on a train marshalling a hundred tanks, a train can pull a few thousand tons of finished products. Oil.

Although it sounds like a lot, it is not too much. Even if the largest 120 cubic long tanker is used, it can pull more than 10,000 tons.

And obviously, it is impossible for a train with more than 100 knots to be loaded with tank cars.

Therefore, relatively speaking, it is still more cost-effective for a large-capacity transportation tool such as a ship to carry more capacity.

This is why in the past, in addition to tankers, oil pipelines were used to transport crude oil and refined oil products, 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 now like other ships, and most of them are frozen in the port. Or simply be disassembled into scrap steel.

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

"According to the requirements of the European side, they hope to open passenger trains between China and my country. Although the country has not agreed to this matter, the Ministry of Railways requires us to come up with a feasible design plan." The staff introduced to the people attending the meeting with.

Hearing this, Chen Xin asked: "The European side requested the opening of passenger trains? Could it be that they want to escape?"

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

Chen Xin himself was able to answer this question, and the question was just a random question. Since no one answered him after asking, he didn't care, so he asked another question: "Passenger trains are indeed a very important issue. Not only trains on the European side, but domestic countries also intend to resume passenger trains, do you have a mature passenger train design now?"

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

Chen Xin had visited a nuclear-powered train that was still being tested before, including passenger carriages, but that was all a few years ago, and what the train manufacturer came up with was only a conceptual design.

Moreover, limited by the number of nuclear-powered locomotives at that time, these nuclear-powered locomotives were used closely for the transportation of important materials. That is, when they were used for disaster relief and transfer of victims in the southwest region and people around Dongting Lake, nuclear-powered locomotives were used. composed of mobile shelters.

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

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

"Currently, the passenger carriages we have that can be combined with nuclear-powered locomotives 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. In terms of current technical reserves, take It is not a problem to come up with a feasible plan." The staff explained to Chen Xin, and showed various functional carriages one by one: "These functional carriages are all the efforts of our researchers and designers in the past few years. As a result, considering that the requirement is for a long-distance passenger journey to Europe, more consideration should be given to the content of logistics supply and guarantee in train formation. After all, there is no supply for thousands of kilometers, and the train can bear it, but the people can't bear it.

And we also need to consider the issue of snow removal, thousands of kilometers of railway, in case there is a snowy section that is difficult to pass, it will be very troublesome..."