LOCOMOTIVE MAINTENANCE IN OREL

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• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: July 19, 2011
• Sequence Number: 393
• Publication Date: August 14, 1953
• Content Type: REPORT

CLASSIFICATION cONFIDENTIAL
CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY REPORT NO.
INFORMATION REPORT F
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of the railroad depot in the south-east corner of Orel. This locomotive repair shop
serviced locomotives operating between Kursk and Tula. As each train arrived at the
depot a serviced locomotive took the place of the hauling locomotive and the hauling
locom-`i-re van sent to the service yard for inspection. There were eight sets of track
running from the depot to the service yard. In the service yard there was a round-house,
wiA six sections, each section capable of holding three locomotives.
2. The w,i-kers were divided into seven crews with four or five men in each crew. The nnun
in the crews were specialists and were able to inspect and make minor repairs to locomo-
'i.ves 47 from ten minutes to two hours. Each crew was responsible for one of the
followia ; Checking boilers, checking instruments, checking bra..es, checking steam
lines, checking water pumps, checking coal and oil delivery systems and chechin', ohafts
and bearings. Between 1935 and 1943 save minor service t~ aj:roxinatc1y
GO to 65 locomotives per day. The locomotives were divided equally betwer!, i.a-.oen;-cr
trains and freight trains.
3? Up to 1940 abnu free or four oil-burning locomotives were inspected daily but: nenc cif
these were seen ter 1940. I was told this was because coal was more plentiful
than oil in our area. The locomotives had brass plates on the engineer's door, or on
the boiler on each side of the locomotive giving the city of manufacture of the locomo-
tive, a ,aerial numbers and the day, month and year of manufacture. I remember that most
of the locomotives were manufactured in Bryansk or Kharkov with the remainder coining from
Putilovsk or Kramatorvka-Nikitovka-Gorlovka.
4. It was required by regulation that each locomotive passing through Orel be brought to the
service yard for inspection. Replacement locomotives were always ready to take the
place of the locomotives which were detached.
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stoves around with them while they were working.
7. here was a major repair shop for locomotives somewhere in Bryansk.
being repaired. Also, the engineer was solely responsible for any injury to the locomo-
tive after the 32,000 kilometers and before the inspection. On the average,looomotives
travelled 32,000 kilometers in 30 days although I remember that once every month or
two a locomotive would come in witt. only 21 days time.
6. The turntable In the round house was turned by hand. in one section of the roundhouse
a large crane was used to lift boilers off locomotives. The shops were heated by steam
and movable coal stoves. In the wintertime it was so cold that the men carried coal
5, it was required that each locomotive be sent into the shop for Inspection and
major overhaul every 32,000 kilometers. The locomotive engineer was always ready to
abide by this regulation because he got a. month's vacation while his locomotive was
returned to the factory. There were three lathes working 24 hours per day in the Bryansk
repair shop. There was little damage to tae service shops at the time of the German
attack. As the Soviets retreated from the German attack everything movable in the
s,. ?'ce was -roved and sent to the Urals. The Germans brought equipment to Orel
Bryansk. Wit, he Germans retreated from Orel they loaded everything movable in
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tr;t's, including the workers. When we were about three kilometers away from the
service shop we looked back and saw big explosions but I have no idea how much damage
was done.
ere were always five or six locomotives in this shop for major repair a
that the average time for repair was one month. About 30 to 35 men were employed in
this shop.
8. I never heard of a locomotive being junked. If by cannibalization and servicing with
machine shop facilities in Bryansk the locomotive could not be made servicable, it was
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