Chapter 75 Chapter 10 The railway man who shares weal and woe

Those years were really difficult days! But it was also a critical period for our lives to take root.A young man from Sichuan who was called "Luo Geometric" by his classmates in middle school, joined the Taiwan Railway Bureau because he yearned for the running of the train. In the desolate days of Taichung's marginalization, he sought the focus of work and life, devoted himself to research, and created a lifelong career , It also actually brought out Taiwan's own construction team for railway modernization.The most arduous Changhua-Tainan CTC project went from stumbled to a firm footing. After the deployment was successful, in 1964 the original team installed the second sea line CTC equipment, from Quchanghua to Zhunan.The Xianshan Line CTC was completed in 1969, with a total of 323 kilometers.

This group of partners who used to share joys and sorrows together, worked together until retirement.His first deputy section chief, Chen Ximing, was born in Tianzhong, Changhua County in 1928. He graduated from the Electrical Engineering Department of National Taiwan University in 1950 and entered the Taichung Railway Section.He went to Europe, the United States, Japan and other countries seven times to investigate railway signals and electrification technology.Served in Taiwan Railways for 42 years, successively served as civil servants, engineering departments at all levels, concurrently served as section chief, section chief, deputy director, director, chief engineering department, deputy director, etc., retired in February 1993 .For more than 30 years, we "worked hard" with him and became lifelong friends (the most admired is each other's brains).The seven children of the Chen family and my family grew up together from infancy to youth, and now they are all middle-aged. They sometimes reunite with each other in different places, and what they love most is the joy of pushing empty trains on the abandoned tracks in Changhua.

From 1950 to 1960, the struggling sun and the moon bursting with laughter and tears were really the "golden decade" for all of us! On Fuxing Road in Taichung, on the beam of the small Japanese-style house, a rope was tied The three babies in the hanging cradle were moved to the small wooden bed that we asked the carpenter to install according to the drawings in Dr. Spock's Baby Care book after half a year old. Safer than ordinary wooden cribs. "One night and one inch", the three babies graduated from Taichung Minority Elementary School one after another after they grew up (the school name "Taichung" may not be the earliest elementary school in the city, but it must be named after the city for some reason).Lin Haifeng is an alumnus. After he won the title of Go Celebrity Honinbo, he went back to his alma mater to miss his childhood. We all felt very honored.

During those ten years, I watched countless dodgeball games on the side of the big playground. That kind of ball play was new to me, and I always feel that it has a mockery of life.I have attended so many elementary schools and have never seen this kind of ball. It seems that it does not pay attention to the skills of the game. It only determines the victory or defeat by the number of enemies hit. It is a passive sport.It seems that you can survive by killing too many people in a crowded place.I've always had a dodgeball outlook on my mind, watching with sadness those kids dodging around in the playground dust to avoid getting hit and out.I hope that children all over the world grow up safely and stably, and don't need to cultivate vigorous skills to avoid disasters.

I envy the serenity of their childhood environment.The gauze cabinet crib, the courtyard is full of various shapes, big and small, cats passed down from generation to generation, and the big banyan tree in the backyard are the three sceneries of the Luo family in Taichung.The banyan tree has many beards and long beards hanging down to the ground, and there is a hole in the trunk. Whenever a guest they like comes, my three sons will go to the entrance, hide their shoes in the hole, and then enter the room and say: "Now you can't leave!" The guest must have been shocked.They played this way for years, until they went to middle school.Those seventeen years! All five of us grew.Taichung is actually the hometown where my children and I have childhood memories. In my own childhood, there were almost no beautiful places where I could hold my memories.