a list of green leather trains.
people are crowded and sweaty everywhere. The toilet, the shelf, the seat, all people. The train wrapped in green iron, playing cards, chatting, eating melon seeds.Amp; hellip.amp; hellip mottled green cars, crowded crowds, open windows.Amp; hellip.amp; hellip
green train, have been the pronouns of the Chinese Spring Festival.
with the speeding up and the decommissioning of green cars, it has become a memory symbol for coming home in the new year. Its figure is becoming out of print. Paul Teiro, an American travel writer, wrote in "riding a Iron Rooster and passing through China by train": here, the train is not a vehicle, it is part of the country, it is a place, a place of life.
it's slow and difficult, but it will eventually arrive at home.
Sun Yana: This is my twenty-eighth Spring Festival
January 31st, JiNan Railway Station. Nora, a uniformed grandson, came to the newspaper with a small black box. This is my last second spring festival. I will retire next year. As the five group broadcaster of the Ji'nan Railway Bureau Ji'nan passenger transport section, the green car has a 26 year fate.
1985. Girl, have you graduated? I think you are 16 years old. It's not a child labor. A silver haired old man teases Sun Yana in a green berth soft sleeper bound for Beijing in Ji'nan. She was 19 years old that year, with a Red Pentagram hat. Teacher, are you 40 years old? Last year, the same conversation appeared on the train from Ji'nan to Harbin. Sun Yana laughs. "Where can I? I'm almost 50." She suddenly realized that she had been shaking like this for nearly 30 years.
when Sun Yana was 19 years old, he set foot on the train for the first time as a conductor. What impressed her most was that the green car was all delivered by the conductor. She was so small that she could not carry the big kettle at first. A pot of water can hold two bottles of semi warm kettle, and the passenger handed the cup over, and she poured it up. Flight attendants are also responsible for firing boilers, and female workers are no exception. One compartment, one boiler and two crew members. Despite the continuous burning, the temperature of the water tank is not up to date. The boiler's hands are full of coal color, so they can't be washed out.
station full of people, only to the terminal, the two flight attendants spend an hour to clean the floor. The floor was thick, sticky and dirty, and came back home with a train. The face was black and gray. Sun Yana said.
horror green car: 10 people crowded in the toilet
too many people, too many people. She used horror to describe the spring transport on the green car.
1988, Sun Yana is a train attendant from Ji'nan to Yantai. When she reached the middle stop, she went to open the door and couldn't get out. Finally, it was squeezed to the door and opened the door to see. After years, she still linger on the scene and pressed a person. I wanted to jump down and there was no place.
the car on the toilet is full of people, at most crowded 10 people, to go to the toilet, the first out of the.Amp; hellip.amp; hellip in the last century in the 80s no guests, capacity is insufficient, frequent spring transport overoverman. Not only the toilet stood full, but the luggage rack was also full. Sun Yana said.
People's luggage is mostly wrapped in broken sheets and used in hemp rope. It's a common woven bag, and no one is dragging the suitcase. A person with a status will take a black rectangular bag with two hand belts and not leather. Ballad singer Zhou Yunpeng still remembers.Amp, mdash.amp; mdash.amp; mdash from Beijing to Kunming for 50 hours. 30 hours later, he lay his head and leg on the aisle and allowed the trolley and toilet to cross.Amp; hellip.amp; hellip, on the other, and his friends went to Tai'an to discuss Marcks, the absurd, the existentialism. When they got off the train, they were stopped by plainclothes policemen. The reason was that they were fined 50 yuan in public and bullshit according to the masses.
in the 90s of last century, Sun Yana turned to be a broadcaster until now. How many years have been on the train? The newspaper reporter asked. I only know the number of years that I have known at home, no more than 5. Sun Yana said that the Spring Festival on the train, dumplings will provide a low price for passengers. Generally, there are not many people on New Year's day. Last year, there were 60 people on the train.
at this time of farewell to the new year, although we can not set off firecrackers in person, we can feel together and wish everyone a happy new year. Every year, Sun Yana prepares for the new year's broadcast words, different from year to year. Then she took out her cell phone and made a phone call to her family. This year's 13 year old son has been used to the new year's Eve.
Harbin's cold: put on cotton pants, legs will not bend
Ji'nan.Amp; mdash Heze.Amp; mdash Harbin, Sun Yana followed for 11 years. Ji'nan to Heze 294 kilometers, Heze to Harbin 1416 kilometers, Harbin to Ji'nan 1592 kilometers. It takes more than 50 hours, three days and two nights on the bus to travel more than 3000 kilometers.
the northeast line has 6 months in winter, and the boiler must be fired. It keeps burning, but the temperature is not coming up. When he learned that he wanted to run the car in Harbin, Sun Yana ordered a thick cotton padded cotton trousers and later replaced it with a down coat, but still could not resist the cold. There is no bend in the legs in the car in the cotton pants. In the broadcasting room of the green car, windows, breathes and so on were wrapped by thick sticky tape. One exit, the temperature is thirty or forty degrees below zero, sitting in the broadcasting room can not stomp, broadcast as far as possible not to let the voice tremble.
the windows of the green car can be opened. In order not to let the wind come in, every army carriage has a green curtain. If two carriages are crossed, the hat must be worn at the junction. On this line, the ice on the car body is knocked at every station. In January 2010, when the train was running in the Harbin section, the water pipes of the toilets cracked, and the toilets were full of water.
one year later, in January 23rd, the 1416 train from Ji'nan to Harbin, which ran for 58 years, bid farewell to the green age and upgrade to red air-conditioned vehicle. I was so happy that I didn't suffer. Sun Yana said, sitting in the broadcasting room of the red leather car, with a clear view, felt that he was the happiest person in the world. After all these years, I didn't feel so hard.
there is only one left in Ji'nan:
the green car is disappearing, and the background of an era is gone.