Iron Horse Glacier Comes to Dream, Volume 1

The fate of four generations of the Shen family is engraved on the rails of China's railways. Shen Rui is a fourth-generation railway worker. He graduated from Southwest Jiaotong University and was assigned to the Yanbei Public Works Section. He has a secret - when he touches the old railway objects, he can see the instructions of his ancestors in the fragments of history: "The railway builders hold human lives in their hands, and it won't matter even a millimeter." From sniffing gas in mine tunnels to the life-and-death line of a century-old landslide, he has proven himself time and again with his ancestral sense of smell and excellent professional skills. It was completed ahead of schedule for nine days and eight nights, and the "plum blossom pile method" was used to guard the century-old roadbed on rainy nights - from the road maintenance work area to the deputy director of the technical office. And the deeper game lies underground - Grandpa's diary hidden in Badaling involves the "split arching method" that has never been made public; the seventeen "iron" sleepers buried under the roadbed by Grandpa hide secrets that span a century. When a German expert ridiculed that "Chinese people don't understand tunnels", Shen Rui responded with action: What the older generation passed down was not only craftsmanship, but also the integrity of "people". Beijing-Zhangjiakou Railway, steel transportation line, Yanbei Public Works Section, Qincheng Passenger Railway - from Zhan Tianyou to the high-speed rail era, four generations, one road. The story spans a century of changes in China's railways and writes about the persistence and inheritance of three generations of railway people.