"The railway is halfway up the mountain and the train flies to the sky." Standing under the No.8 Bridge of Longhai Line in Sanmenxia City, Henan Province, you can see a wooden board hanging under the bridge more than 40 meters above the ground. A yellow figure is faintly visible on the board, floating in the valley like a swing in the cold winter. ...
The yellow man is Li Yubin, the foreman of No.8 Bridge work area. And this No.8 Bridge has a more resounding name "Yang Liandi Bridge".
Yang Liandi Bridge was built in 1923, with a height of 47 meters and a length of 172.5 meters. It crossed a deep valley and the mountain was steep. It is the highest single-track bridge on the Longhai Line. Today, there is still a saying among local villagers: "No.8 roof, No.8 roof, accidentally fell into the cake;" The eighth tail, the eighth tail, the bridge is like heaven. "
1949, in order to repair the No.8 bridge of Longhai Railway bombed by the enemy, Yang Liandi, a railway soldier, climbed the pier of more than 40 meters with self-made simple tools, and carried out blasting 100 times continuously, leveling the top surfaces of five piers, thus completing the bridge repair task ahead of schedule. Won the title of "climbing hero".
Yang Liandi later died gloriously in the Korean battlefield and was regarded as a "first-class hero" of the Volunteers. Therefore, No.8 Bridge has become the only bridge named after a person on the China railway line.
Li Yubin's grandfather and father are also the repairmen of this "Hero Bridge". Li Yubin 10 years ago, when he left the army, he chose the railway and applied for transfer to Yang Liandi Bridge and Tunnel Work Area, becoming the third generation guardian of "Hero Bridge".
At 7 o'clock in the morning, before dawn, Li Yubin and his workmates started a new day of bridge maintenance with tools. Today, his main task is to inspect, derust and paint the steel frame support under the beam sidewalk. See Li Yubin after confirm the lock at the end of the seat belt, boarded the guardrail, leap, dig out the bridge deck, squatting in the air outside the bridge selected a long and narrow board.
With a little effort, the board will shake in the sky with the wind in the valley.
"This is a compulsory course for bridge workers. When I first went to work, the master wouldn't let me work, so I put it on the shelf and sat and experienced it. My legs were scared. " Li Yubin said that now he looks smart on the swing, and he was scared for the first time.
Yang Liandi Bridge is located in the canyon, in the tuyere area between the two mountains. Strong winds often occur in winter, which brings great difficulties to bridge maintenance. During the Spring Festival, the temperature is as low as MINUS 10 degrees Celsius.
From the bridge deck to the pier to maintain bridge facilities, not to mention standing on the bridge. No matter how thick cotton-padded clothes and trousers are, no matter how thick winter gloves are, they are all furnishings. The bridge worker's hand was cracked with cold. When it snows, it often lasts for ten days and a half months, and even the ice in the snow will not melt here.
In order to facilitate his work, Li Yubin tried to wear light clothes at work and hung them under the bridge. The wind almost filled his sleeves and trouser legs. "Hanging below, the wind is cold." Li Yubin climbed back to the bridge flexibly, rubbed his frozen hands, and quickly replaced the safety helmet with a cotton cap. "The helmet became a' ventilation cap'." Li Yubin said with a smile.
During Spring Festival travel rush, the temperature was the lowest in a year. Track rails, fasteners, steel beams and connecting parts on the bridge are prone to fracture, and steel beams are prone to brittle fracture, cracks and other safety hazards. At the same time, due to the addition of temporary passenger trains during the rush hour in Spring Festival travel rush, the passenger transport task is heavy, and there is a train crossing the bridge every five minutes on average, so the maintenance task is heavy.
In order to ensure the smooth traffic of the bridge, even if the weather is bad, Li Yubin will maintain the bridge with his workmates.
Sixty-nine years after Yang Liandi, a "rock climbing hero", Li Yubin and his colleagues still stick to their jobs and guard our way home.
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