建国60年,铁路的发展犹如呼啸的列车一日千里。我老家在苏北农村,当时不通铁路,坐火车是一种奢望。终于有一天我坐上了梦中的火车。那是1976年的一个夏天,我跟着母亲从苏北老家步行、乘船用了一天时间到达镇江,镇江是我们那唯一能坐上火车的地方。 60 years after the founding of the People’s Republic of China, the development of the railway is like a whistling train traveling thousands of miles. My hometown is in the countryside of northern Jiangsu. At that time, there was no railway, and the train was a luxury. Finally one day I got a dream train. It was a summer of 1976, and I followed my mother’s hometown of northern Jiangsu and took a day to reach Zhenjiang by boat. Zhenjiang was the only place where we could get on the train.