CCTV News: Deep in the mountains of Jilin Province, there is a 4245 train that travels between Tonghua and Changbai Mountain every day, with a total distance of 321 kilometers. The train takes more than 6 hours a day to cross the Songhua River in Toudao and cross the mountains and ridges in the hinterland of Changbai Mountain, connecting the mountain villages and cities. It has been running for 50 years and is affectionately called the "happiness slow train" by the residents along the route.
One kilometer, one dime It takes fifty years to sit in one kilometer
Every weekend, there are more passengers on the green-skinned train than usual. The mileage of more than 300 kilometers is only more than 30 yuan, and the average is 10 cents per kilometer. Most of the passengers are residents living along the route, many of whom have been taking this train since childhood.
The 4245 train was opened in 1975. This railway winds through the snowy fields of forests and seas, was once the "lifeline" connecting the outside world for many villages along the route. In recent years, with the prosperity of rural tourism along the route, this railway line has also shined with new vitality.
It's a chance meeting, more like an old friend
Train Commander Zhang Yuqiu has worked on this train for more than 7 years. When she meets older passengers, she and her colleagues will take care of them getting on and off, helping to get luggage, and finding seats, so that the passengers who board the train feel as if they are at home, and the ordinary journey is full of warmth. Zhang Yuqiu introduced that the passengers are all ordinary people along the route. If you take this bus, you either go to the surrounding cities and towns to shop, buy things, see a doctor, or go to school. I always left, I became familiar with each other and got to know each other.
The villagers and the train rushed to the two directions. The mountain road turned into a "Zhifu Road"
The average speed of the train was only fifty or sixty kilometers per hour, and the entire line was 13 stops, of which 8 were ride-hailing and landing places set up to facilitate the villagers in remote mountain villages to take the bus.
In Huangjiaweizi Village, located in Fusong County, since the 1980s, villagers have relied on this train to bring mountain goods out for sale. In order to facilitate boarding, the villagers also spontaneously built a platform worth more than 170 meters long.
The leeks and greenhouses in greenhouses are now harvesting, and are very popular in mountainous areas where ice and snow have not yet disappeared. Every day, villagers go to Songjianghe Town, the next stop to sell. Often, passengers on the bus become the first wave of customers, and some villagers even bring their own sticky spoons to the bus to sell.
In the peak season for wild vegetables and agricultural and sideline products, the railway department also set up a large agricultural product market on the train and launched a series of convenient measures.
The train slowly moves. The people and scenery in time are waiting for the people and scenery in time. The running high-speed rail speeds up people's dreams in life; the slow-moving train retains the people and scenery in the years. 4245 times, this 365-day uninterrupted charity slow train is paving a happy journey for people among the black soil of the white mountains and mountains.