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第四天 : 2003年 2月5日
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今天，我们继续未完的「任务」，早上9:30，我们走到附近的车站，看到2台前进及1台建设。
其中一台前进正在运煤向西面行驶。
而其它则在调机。 之后我们向东沿铁路行去找蒸汽机车。
一路上都遇见很多建设。
间中，亦有前进及上游机车呢! 沿铁路走了个多小时，我们到了编组场。
大量运煤卡，正等候他们的「机车头」带他们去不同的目的地，在编组场内，建设和上游是十分常见的机车。 午膳后，我们再进入编组场继续拍照。
我们再进入编组场继续拍照。
不久一台上游758停在我们旁边。
司机师傅们亦邀请我们上驾驶室漆乘一趟。主司机说他有30多年驾驶经验。
他也见过很多，有胜利(SL)，人民(RM)及跃进(YJ)等。可惜，他们已被淘汰了。 上游机车行驶时像地震一样，但我们都十分高兴地乘坐了半个小时。
那台机车十分之漂亮及束新，而副司机亦解释很多有用的知识给我们听听。
一个很有用的资料「气笛」和「电笛」的分别。
何时用「气笛」，何时用「电笛」呢?
据司机们的解释，「气笛」用于警告离机车较远的人群。
致于「电笛」则警告离机车较近之人群。 我去年4月参观广钢。
在那里的上游机车(因害怕嘈音污染)「气笛」己被拆掉了。
我们十分爱听蒸汽机车我「气笛」声呢! 我们离开上游758后，再次期望乘坐巨型怪物--前进；有幸地，一台7186(6轴煤水卡)停在我们附近，我们走到司机处问问可否登上机车呀。
惊讶了，我们又受邀请上这台QJ7186是没有「耳朵」---挡烟板。
因为这「耳朵」阻碍了向前视线，所以把它拆下来。
没有「耳朵」的前进，有点像建设型机车呢! 前进的驾驶室比建设及上游的还大。
我们7人都挤在里面。
有正､副司机2人，又有2名工作人员及我们3人。
而2名工作人员分别是负责挖煤及列车挂接。 我们都谈得十分投契。
虽然工作环境很脏但他们仍然敬业乐业呢。
最后，他们把机车驶到一个小站，放下我们，就驱车继续他们未完的工作。 我们整天都十分尽兴而回。
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Day 4 :
05-Feb-2003
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Today, we continued our “mission”. We started our trip at 9:30am and we walked to the nearby
station and saw two QJs and one JS. One QJ was carrying coal to the
west direction and
the others were in shunting. We
then walked eastward along the track to find the steam engines.
This morning, a lot of steam engines were seen and most of them are
JS. Sometimes, QJ and SY were
seen occasionally. An hour later, we entered a shunting area.
A lot of wagons carrying coal were seen and they were waiting
for their “heads” to haul them to their destinations.
JS and SY were frequently seen as shunting engines. (Great
photos here! day4b.htm) After
we had had our lunch, we entered the shunting area and continued photo-shooting to the steam engines. After a while, a SY 758 stopped by us.
The drivers asked us to get on their engine, and we were invited
again to travel from one place to another.
The chief drivers said that he had driven the loco for over 30
years!! Many Steam locos had
been seen before, like SL, RM, and YJ etc.
However, they were faded out. The
loco was shaking like earthquake while it was in motion, but we all
enjoyed the traveling in SY for almost half an hour.
The engine was very new and the vice driver explained a lot to us.
One most important information was the difference between using the
“gas horn” and electric horn”.
When the “gas horn” was used??
According to the drivers, when you want warn the people on the
track who are far away from the loco.
However, electric horn was used when the people on the track are
close to the engine. My
last visite to Guangzhou steel works was in April 2002, I found that the
“gas horn” in the steam engine was completely removed because of the
noise pollution. We all
enjoyed listening to the “gas horn” when it was in use. When
we got off the SY 758, we hoped we could travel on the gigantic monster
– QJ. Luckily, an QJ 7186,
(6 axles tender) stopped beside us. We
went to ask the drives whether we could get on their engine.
Luckily, we were invited!! The
QJ 7186 had no “ear”, the smoke deflector.
We asked the driver why this QJ has no “ear”.
They said that the ear block their views when the loco was in boiler forward, so they removed them.
Without the pair of “ears”, the QJ looked like a JS.
The
size of the cab was bigger than that of JS and SY.
Now there were 7 people inside the cab.
Besides the driver and the vice driver, there were also two staff
and three of us. One was
responsible for adding coal to the boiler and the other was responsible
for hook-connecting and disconnecting when the locos
were hauled or released the wagons. We
talked to the drivers and the staff in a happy atmosphere.
Although the working environment was dirty, they still worked
happily. Finally, they drove us to one station and we said good-bye
to them. (Photos of QJ 7186. qj7186.htm) We
all enjoyed the day very much and then returned to hotel.
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