Chronicles of Primitive Civilization
Chapter 1115

High-Speed Rail Plan: Putting People First

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Dashu was left dumbfounded by Luo Chong's description of the Heavy-Haul Locomotive. Compared with the Toy Train they were riding now, those exaggerated figures were like heaven and earth.

### A train carriage was a three-dimensional thing, after all. According to Luo Chong's figures, setting the carriage aside, the Heavy-Haul Locomotive's rails alone would be wider than the current carriages, while the carriages themselves would be more than twice as wide, reaching an astonishing 4.3 meters.

### As for length, they would increase from the current twelve meters to thirty-four meters, nearly tripling. From a flat perspective alone, the carriage floor area would be at least seven times that of the current Narrow-Gauge Railway carriages. But what about adding height?

### A carriage 4.3 meters wide and five meters high would not be excessive, right? Its height would be at least two meters greater than the current carriages, effectively raising their existing space by another level.

### By that calculation, the volume of a single Heavy-Haul Locomotive carriage would be at least twelve times that of the current carriages, meaning its carrying capacity would increase more than tenfold.

### If the Han Tribe could truly build such a Steam Train, it would be a genuine fleet on land. One carriage would have greater carrying capacity than a small two-masted sailboat.

### Dashu was utterly shaken by the future Luo Chong described. But at that moment, Luo Chong was thinking about how to build a High-Speed Rail line in this world.

### High-Speed Rail, or high-speed railway, did not specifically refer to modern electric bullet trains. Literally speaking, it simply meant trains that traveled very fast.

### During the Second World War in his previous life, Steam Trains had been flourishing, and Steam Train technology had reached its peak. That period

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