写铁路世家,是许多有志的铁路作家们的终生夙愿。晓重也不例外,多年来这位活跃于铁路文坛的作家,以自己的特长,在反映铁路公安战线的生活中,不断地展示着自己的创作才干。而今天,他在这篇所谓的中篇小说里,选择的人物和时代背景,却是一个长篇小说的框架。尽管场面宏大,人物众多,但是,作家还是兼顾到了中篇小说的特点,注意了人物性格的把握。而作家所选择的地域,恰恰是中国铁路发展较早的京津塘一带。在这里作家用粗犷的文笔,为我们勾勒出天津解放前夕,有胆有识的铁路机车乘务员,在生存和命运面前,同 Writing a family of railroads is the lifelong wish of many aspiring railway writers. As always, the writer who is active in the literary world of the railway, with his expertise and his reflection of the life on the railway public security front, has constantly demonstrated his creative talent. Today, in this so-called novella, the character and background of his choice are the framework of a novels. Despite the grand scenes and numerous figures, writers still take account of the features of the novella and pay attention to the character’s grasp. The writer chose the area, it is precisely the development of China’s railways earlier Jingjintang area. Here the writer with rough writing, for us sketched the eve of the liberation of Tianjin, the courageous railway locomotive crew, in the face of survival and destiny, with