The picture shows the Ali River National Forest Park in winter like a fairy tale. Photo by Luan Weijing
【New Year grassroots】Steam train in the primeval forest: "retirement" was "rehired" into an Internet celebrity "time machine"
China News Network Inner Mongolia Daxinganling, January 19 Title: Steam Train in the Primeval Forest: "Retirement" Was "Rehired" into an Internet Celebrity "Time Machine"
Author Zhang Wei Luan Weijing Han Changjun
Uh huh... With a long whistle, a steam train spewed smoke from Kuiyuan Station and drove into the primeval forest. Tourists take this historic narrow gauge 28 tons forest steam engine train and look out the window, ancient pines, birch forests, strange stones, rivers... It is as if landscape paintings alternate in front of your eyes.
The picture shows a steam train traveling in the forest. Photo by Luan Weijing
In winter, the Daxing'an Mountains of Inner Mongolia are crystal clear, like a fairy tale world. On the 19th, the ice and snow sports activities of "Memories on the Ridge, Forest Workers' Paradise" and "Winter Olympics and New Year Celebration" were launched in a beautiful forest.
Tourists follow the train "through time" to trace the memories of time and forest industry culture in the 1960s and 1970s.
The Alihe Forestry Bureau Narrow Gauge Railway was founded in 1959, with 11 steam locomotives, a total length of more than 210 kilometers of forest railway lines, undertaking 7 forest farm timber transportation and passenger transport tasks, with an annual transport of wood production tasks of up to 300,000 cubic meters.
After the implementation of the "Tianbao Project", the forest steam engine train withdrew from the historical stage. In recent years, with the development of the tourism economy, the "retired" steam train has been "rehired" and has become a "time machine" for tourists to punch in.
In 2011, the Alihe Forestry Bureau opened up a forest steam train tourist railway line, built four railway stations in Kuiyuan, 141 Engineering Team, Black Bear's Nest and Acacia Valley, created a cultural exhibition hall with a cultural atmosphere of forest engineering, a production memory experience area, a scenic spot and other tourist attractions, built the "Acacia Road" along the way, with the theme of "Happy Starting Station", built Acacia Lake Waterfall, Lover's Island, Love Stone, Evening Wedding Hall, 21 European-style romantic forest tree houses, wooden houses and acacia inns.
The reporter learned from ali river forest company that this is the only tourist narrow-gauge steam train in the world that operates in the original forest.
An American steam car fan Lohans once boarded this little train, "This forest steam train is very interesting, it can be said to be a 'world-class tourist treasure', and when the epidemic is over, I will go again." ”
Zhu Ning, a tourist who works at the Shanhetun Forestry Bureau in Heilongjiang, said: "I have worked on the forest railway and am particularly interested in the steam train preserved in the Ali River, and this time I took the steam train and felt that back in the past, the scenery here is particularly beautiful, and it is a wonderful trip that cannot be felt elsewhere." ”
For the first time, the primary school students who participated in the study tour took the narrow-gauge forest steam train, listening to the conductor explain the history, story and production logging history of the steam train; stepping into the primeval forest, viewing and understanding the deep canyon, the name and use of the original forest plants, the students can truly enter the nature education classroom.
The picture shows the staff maintaining and overhauling the steam train. Photo by Luan Weijing
Alihe Forest Engineering Company officially introduced that in May 2021, Alihe National Forest Park and Tuoba Xianbei Historical and Cultural Park, Bussuri Military Culture and Education Base jointly established tourism alliances with surrounding travel agencies and major and medium-sized cities to jointly develop characteristic tourism connecting products, boutique tourism routes, and send tourists to each other, which greatly met the needs of steam locomotive enthusiasts and photography fans around the world, and gradually became a popular punch card.
According to statistics, in 2021 compared with the same period in 2020, the number of forest steam train tourists in the Ali River increased by 3 times. (End)
Source: China News Network