In the eyes of veteran employees who have laid railroads before, the distance between railroads in California is about four and a half feet, and the distance between the old rails that have been laid in Texas is only a little more than five feet. Why are the newly laid rails
The distance is about 6 feet?
The rails themselves are much thicker than those in California and Texas. They feel heavy and have a very solid feel.
It's just that these are not things that employees should bother to think about.
They must use their own sweat to fight for a "better future."
That wonderful future the foremen talked about.
Sweat and anticipation helped these local employees withstand the minus ten degrees cold weather in the American winter.
The wide rail spacing and thick rails were the decisions Tom made after discussing with dozens of railway engineers.
In this era, trains were not as perfect as later generations. The spacing of the rails determined the upper limit of the width of the trains running on them. The wider the rails, the greater the cargo capacity of the train cars of the same length.
The quality of the rail determines the upper limit of the total weight of the train that the rail can bear.
Taken together, the spacing of the rails and the quality of the rails jointly determine the upper limit of the cargo volume.
So why aren’t the railroad tracks in other areas spread very wide now?
This is the contradiction between investment and profit.
As the rails become wider, the demand for sleepers, construction work volume, rail quality, etc. will also increase.
The most important thing is the cost increase brought about by the improvement of rail quality.
In this era, wide rails are built for high load capacity, and the minimum rail quality standards will definitely increase exponentially with the increase in track width.
Especially the requirements for rail quality at curves.
In this case, the railway company has to carefully consider the rail spacing during initial construction.
For railway companies, why should they increase their initial investment in railways?
It would be nice to build more trains to transport more goods in the future.
Hero Company is different.
Tom builds railroad tracks and roads not for profit, but just to prevent these workers from freeloading.
Tom doesn’t know when the economic crisis will ease, nor does he know that millions of local employees will continue to come to the Americas. Wouldn’t it be nice to directly give local employees a “big project” that they can work on for several years?
As for the profitability of roads and railroads, Tom had no intention of profiting from the insignificant market of native Texans and northern Mexican employees.
How did Hero Company obtain the raw materials for road construction when the world economic crisis and freight transportation basically stopped?
How are these cement, asphalt, and rails purchased?
Of course, they dug it themselves. In the past month, Hero Company has fully resumed operations in the mines controlled by the former United Mexican States, relying on the first batch of hundreds of thousands of employees from the Second Empire of Mexico.
These mines are among the richest in the Americas, and they were also the "ultimate goal" of the Europeans' invasion of Mexico. Unfortunately, they were intercepted by Tom.
At that time, the United States of Mexico could also be said to be a country where "every man is not guilty but is guilty of having a jade in his possession."
In the mine, the employees, covered with dust and with faces covered with mud, hummed together the "Miner's Song" taught by the foremen.
This is a "work song" tailor-made by Tom Smith for the miners who are employees of the Earth Dynasty.
There were more and more people humming, and I don’t know who started it. The miners began to sing loudly in the sweaty mud.
"Come on all good farmers,"
"I have good news for you:"
"This is a good Mr. Tang,"
"Have brought us here,"
"And let us stay here."
"Which side are you on?"
"Which side are you on?"
"Which side are you on?"
"Which side are you on?"
"My father is a farmer,"
"I am a farmer's son,"
"I will follow Mr. Tang,"
"Until I earn pieces of silver."
"They say there are no real people on earth."
"You are either a beast in the eyes of local officials,"
"Either he is a slave of a Han landlord."
"O farmer, can you bear it?"
"Oh! tell me how you can bear it?"
"You're going to be a beastly slave,"
"Or do you want to be an upright miner?"
"Don't be a pariah to the earth anymore,"
"Don't just lie to the officials."
"Our poor hometown has no chance,"
"Unless we organize."
"Fly across the sea together and come to hero company together."
"Let's be miners together!"
Tom only designed songs for miners. Miners have the highest mortality rate among these types of work and need songs to give them some "comfort".
Meanwhile, on the other side of Texas, Tom Smith was singing.
Singing in despair.
Sing a song of despair.
In Smith's farm, a sad-looking Tom sat in the hall.
This is the first time that Tom has returned to Smith Farm since the birth of his child. Looking at the family around him who are excited about the festive atmosphere, Tom can only sit in the corner and wait for this boring day to pass.
Tom hates Christmas the most, because for Texas workers, they can accept no holidays all year round, but Christmas must be a day of rest.
Due to religious reasons, Tom could only shorten his working hours on Christmas Day, but he could not reduce his wages for the day. It was a big loss.
Tom looked at the white people celebrating Christmas in front of him and couldn't help but miss the heroes and the black slaves.
All hero needs to do is give him dumplings during the Chinese New Year.
Black slaves are much easier to use. What a bullshit Christmas. As long as work is stopped, just use the "cotton machine fuel" - the whip, and you can work indefinitely.
The perpetual motion machine among human beings - Negro the Negro.
"Let's sing hymns together."
"Okay, okay, let Father Martin start."
"Then let's sing "Everyone Celebrates"."
"good."
This year's Christmas, Tom's mother, Penny, donated a lot of materials to several nearby churches.
For this reason, the church specially sent the priest Martin King, who had been to Rome, to the Smith Farm to celebrate Christmas with the church's largest financial backer.
Under Penny's lead, everyone gathered around Father Martin, waiting for Father Martin to take the lead in singing Christmas carols.
"The whole world is rejoicing and getting ready..."
"The world rejoices, the Savior descends!"
"The earth takes her king..."
"..."
“The Lord’s love is wonderful and inexplicable,”
“The Lord’s love is wonderful and inexplicable,”
“The Lord’s love, the Lord’s love is wonderful and inexplicable.”
Under the leadership of the priest, the entire Smith family sang the song "The World Celebrates" together.
Tom was still sitting in the corner of the hall, opening and closing his mouth, and finished singing this carol "in tears".
Boring Christmas.
Seeing the whole family doing various religious activities together, Tom felt like leaving.
"Ah~"
Tom yawned, with tears shed from the corners of his eyes because he was grateful to the Lord. He looked at the pocket watch in his hand and found that it was already two o'clock in the afternoon.
But just as he was getting dressed and ready to go out for a stroll, Tom looked at Father Martin.
"Why did it take me so long to realize that I haven't taken advantage of religion and education!"
Tom instantly remembered the religious and educational plan he had made in New York.