Chapter 242

Where had the villagers seen this kind of thing? Even Fang Yang hadn't seen it.

Such a big thing, with wheels, appearing in this remote mountain village, no matter how you look at it, it feels extremely strange.

Fang Yang jumped out of the car and walked to the front.

This time the system panel popped up immediately.

【Steam Locomotive】

【Era: Manufactured by Baldwin Locomotive Works in the United States in 1898, serial number 16117】

【Locomotive length 13 meters, width 2.6 meters, height 3.4 meters】

【FN type locomotive, compound 4-cylinder locomotive, driving wheel diameter 1022 mm, axle arrangement 0-3-1, gauge 1524 mm, maximum speed 50 km/h, can pull up to 10-15 carriages, self-weight 70 tons, relies on burning wood for steam to start.】

【Reason for loss: In the early 1940s, the Japanese occupied this place and used the train to transport military supplies. Later, before surrendering and withdrawing, they used explosives to blow up the railway, and the train fell into the river and has been buried until now....】

Fang Yang was stunned.

This was actually a locomotive.

Even if he died, he wouldn't have thought that a locomotive would appear in a mountain gully!

Not to mention him, anyone else wouldn't have thought of it either.

After reading the introduction, Fang Yang suddenly realized that the stone bridge above his head was actually a railway.

The cameraman asked curiously: "Brother, what exactly is this?"

Fang Yang smiled: "Locomotive!"

"Locomotive?"

Many people exclaimed.

"Are you kidding! Where would a train come from here?"

"I've also taken a train, trains don't look like this!"

"Yes, yes, yes, shouldn't trains be square?"

The villagers didn't believe it, but Team Leader Wang did, and the first time Fang Yang said it was a locomotive, he thought of an ancient train, a steam train.

"Fang Yang, are you sure!"

"Sure, hurry up and notify the salvage team to come. If nothing goes wrong, this locomotive is more than ten meters long in total, and I haven't even dug out one-fifth of it!"

Team Leader Wang smiled helplessly: "I'll call immediately!"

【Popularity】 +1+1+1+1...

—【Damn? A king bomb as soon as he starts today? This caught me off guard. Even if I died, I wouldn't have thought that a train could be dug up in a mountain reservoir. If this is said out, people will think the train traveled through time. But I'm puzzled, how exactly did this train drive in?】

—【If Fang Yang says so, then it must be. And judging by the current shape, it does look like an ancient steam train. As for why it's here, this answer can only be asked to Fang Yang. Trains were considered rare items in the past, why did it fall here and no one cared? Imagination is limited, can't guess at all.】

—【Tanks, planes, cannons, all are complete, and now a locomotive has been dug up, and in such an unexpected place. Is it going to dig up warships and aircraft carriers in a while? The problem is where to dig these things, unless you go to the sea. I don't believe you can dig up warships on land.】

—【This small village looks very backward today, but don't you think it's very strange? The terrain of the whole village is particularly suitable for building a military base during wartime, and there are rich water resources above. First, digging special ores, now digging trains, I always feel that there is some secret hidden behind this.】

—【Do you think there will be corpses in the train? Such a big locomotive couldn't have been thrown in by someone. It is very likely that it fell in when an accident happened at that time. The locomotive hasn't been discovered for so many years. Maybe the group of people who drove the train at that time also died in it. Thinking about it makes me a bit scared!】

Fang Yang returned to the excavator to continue digging. It was already 10:30 in the morning, and he hadn't done much work all morning, just digging the locomotive here.

Now that he knew what it was, he was handy when he shoveled again.

And the parts he didn't understand before gradually became clear.

The cameraman asked curiously: "Brother, what kind of train is this? Aren't trains all square?"

Fang Yang smiled: "Steam train, ever heard of it?"

"Damn, the earliest train?"

"Yes, the part we dug out now is one side of the locomotive. See that piece in the very front? That is the boiler of the train!"

"Look down, that pedal is about 1.5 meters long."

"Then down is the train's wheels. Like this kind of train, there should be 4 large steel wheels with a diameter of 1.2 meters on one side, and the middle one is its bearing."

The cameraman was confused.

"Although I don't understand, it feels awesome!"

Fang Yang smiled: "You'll understand when I dig it all out later!"

After saying that, he continued to operate the excavator to dig.

He was responsible for digging away the mud around it at most, as for the salvage, it had nothing to do with him.

During his excavation, the tow truck team that called before also arrived at the scene and was building a road that could come up.

Fang Yang dug backwards along the head of the train, and then dug out the air valve connecting the boiler and the wheels. According to the system data, the length was 1.2 meters and the diameter was 0.8 meters.

The function of this thing was mainly to exhaust excess steam.

While the villagers were washing with water pipes, they found a copper nameplate on the air valve.

If you look closely, you will find some dates and English words written on it.

"Village Chief, what is this written?"

The village chief looked at him like a fool: "Do you think I understand English?"

Fang Yang said lightly: "It says the factory date is 1898, and below is its production site!"

"Oh oh! Could it really be a train?"

Fang Yang didn't pay attention but continued to dig. After digging for a while, the coal tender part was also dug out.

This place was where the train burned fire to produce steam.

The villager holding the water pipe saw the wood inside at a glance: "Why is there wood in here? Do trains burn wood too?"

Actually, Fang Yang was also very surprised. Although he didn't understand steam trains.

But he remembered that this kind of train should burn coal.

On TV, it was always a person holding a shovel and constantly putting coal into the big boiler inside.

Such a scene had long been fixed in his heart.

Out of curiosity, he still took a closer look.

Although you could see pieces of wood inside, they were all wrapped in silt.

To go in and find out, you must first clear all the mud inside.

Needless to say, the space inside was very large, at least it was impossible today.

Now he could only continue to dig.

Digging until about 12 noon, the outline of the entire train had completely appeared in front of everyone.

Fang Yang was a bit hungry, looked at the time, and prepared to go eat.

At this time, there were more and more villagers on the dam behind.

Almost everyone in the village had come.

They were shocked to see the locomotive in the mud.

"Village Chief, you have the highest seniority, how could there be a train in our place? Do you know?"

The village chief pondered for a while, looked up at the broken stone bridge above: "I heard people say before that our place used to be a nest for the Japanese, and that there were railway tracks near us. I didn't believe it at the time, but now that I think about it, is this stone bridge the railway track from back then?"

"Railway track? I've been up there to play, there are no railway tracks, at most some stones!"

Fang Yang jumped out of the car and walked over and smiled: "Do you think if this railway track was scrapped back then, would so many steel tracks be left here for no one to want?"

Upon hearing this, the village chief suddenly realized: "That's right, at that time, every household took out their ironware, it's normal that there are no railway tracks here."

【Popularity】 +1+1+1+1..

—【This locomotive can be considered a cultural relic, right? I'm afraid there aren't many of these in our whole China, and it's even rarer to be able to preserve it now. I don't know if this thing will be transported to the Fang Yang Museum, I'll go see this century-old steam train then.】

—【I'm drunk. Fang Yang even understands this kind of thing? Not to mention many of these trains, there aren't many people in our whole China who understand it, right? He recognized it at a glance, terrifying. Where are the relevant departments? It's already like this, why don't they investigate? If they study it clearly, it will definitely save humanity 50 years of detours.】

—【I even suspect that if a spaceship is dug up one day, Fang Yang can explain it clearly. There is nothing you can't think of, nothing he can't do. Take today's matter, for example, if I go to brag to others later, I guess they won't believe it. Digging up a locomotive is already outrageous, digging it in this place is even more outrageous.】

—【It's a train today, won't the things dug up in the afternoon scare people to death? It's hard to imagine that such a small mountain village can dig up anything. Fang Yang overturns my worldview again and again. After watching his live broadcast for a long time, I sometimes wonder if I am a Blue Star person, did I travel through time!】

After Fang Yang finished speaking, he took the cameraman and walked down the mountain.

A straight road had been repaired almost.

Fang Yang just took the opportunity to go eat while they were lifting the train.

Anyway, he had already dug almost everything.