TRANSPORTATION

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80-00809A000600220083-6
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: C
• Document Page Count: 3
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: June 27, 2011
• Sequence Number: 83
• Publication Date: April 11, 1949
• Content Type: REPORT

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RSC01[STRII4)'i'ION OF TRA~CS3 OA RSTOlGIAN RAILROAD SYSTBN
S. Porsrenkov
Dir-Lt Col of Roadbeds and Structures
Chief, Roadbeds and Structures 9v
Satoniaa Rsilroad System
L little more than 2 years have passed ain~o the Satonian Rail-
road System ran liberated from the Oermea ua;rrpera rho canned suoh
tremeadena damage to its track economy. In 2 years of persistent,
uasel?iah labors the Felonies railroad rorkera have achieved impor-
tant results In restoring s~.d in strengthening Lrack economy.
Ia this short time, the Tallin-Pysakyula electrified double-
traek aectida has bees restored. The entire length of track has
been oa~pletely repaired rith the laying of heavy-type rails
1,600 eros's~lea per kilometer, and, in curved sectors of the track,.
from 1;8#0 to 2,000 arosatioa per kilometer.
' Ia eepeoially run-dory and devastated sections of the system,
have bees replaced. Aluoat all cursed sections of ths-track~rith
radii of less than 1,200 meters have been strengthened by bringing
the agmber o. ties np to 1,600-1,840 per kilometer, ridening the
ballast gradient, a,nd replacing light rails rich rails of a heav-
ier tyle.
Abthtt 150 seta or aer aritchea have been set up on crushed
atone, sad 276 seta of old aritch beams sad 253 seta of old
sritehea have been replaced.
^he track men of the System have themselves manufactured about
made 34~'fts depth beneath the ties.
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300,000 ties and 350 sets of snitch beams.
In 1946, a mobile tieWl.mpregnatian plant began operation. The
impregnation of sviteh beams, as well as ties is being carried on.
A;l enormous volume of vork vas carried out in reconstruction af.
bridges and pipe 1J.nes< During this period,. 164 surface structures
wars remoilt; of th?m, seven vere completely reoonstTucted, Six
rltal pz?c~ects ere non underway, among them the reconstruction of
the bridges across the Narva and P?arna~
In the past, most bridges vere calculated for a stress of not
more than 15 tons per eucleo AL' rebuilt structures are designed
to carry the heavy contemporary loco~otives and care.
in the period"1844-1946, ell the sector repair shops vere re-
constructed, Merry of them vere fitted out with new equipment which
hoe permitted the. workshops to carry out a sigc,ificant volume of
vork'Sn the renovation oP track at.ructurea.
Ia the regsir shops, track open repaired about 170 kilometers
of ra9,la sad 1,000 awltrhets; rebuilt about 100 sets of snitches;
repaired,or manufactured dpzens of tons of spikes and other mete-
riala !'or o~urface inatallaticnsa
Broad-gr~uge,.heavy-type track non constitutes 40 percont of
the'~yetem, instead of the one percent as of 19N0, xore than 40
percent oP the main tracks Dave 1,600 ties per kilometer, instead
of the former 1,360-1,440 per kilometer.
The rail and tie aituatioa in nanrov-gauge aector3 has been
significantly improved.
Nark carried out for the im~ro~4emeat of track economy hen
permitted the aubetYtution of broad for narrow-gauge tracks in
many eeetora vhieh formerly restricted the train speed. This
replacement made it possible to increase speed oiT ell of the main
l,,.nea. It has also permitted the removal oP restrictions pre-
vioasly set up on the SII-aeries locomctivea vhieh had a load capac-
ity of 18.3 tons per axle; pasae.ge of rail?ng stock with loads of
20 tone aped more per axle la non permitted. The daily average
ahiDPln6 load on the eyaten s-111 approximately double by 1950.
lotvithstamding the cited achievements is improvement of the
track eooaay of She Batoaian Syate>r,. it will be necaesary to
i~rproTe the 5hole system to incieasc its traffic sad freight
capacrity to the level called far by the plan,
Capital repairs, consisting of new heavy rails and reinforca-
meat, meat be performed on 150 kilometers rrY track, with 1,840-2,000
ties psr tilometer maintained over this distance, Medium repairs
on all trunk lines, bof;h broad- and narrow-gaugR, must be carried
ont, rich apec.lal attention paid to creepage.
~ ?ast amount of vork in capital repair of surface structures
rsmaiaa to be done. The cost of this vork will amo~uxk to 29
million rnblea.
By 1950, 274 houses with a total oP 75,000 square meters livi:g
apace !or housing workers sad employees of the Railroad System moat
be built.
~Tha System has begun canatruction of a povarful stationary
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ti~~imprvtion plant with a dearly output of 50,000 pubic meters
dP laipresgaated rroosi.
&epair.ahopa, ballast and gravel plants, and other inatalle-
tioaeinec?aeary 4'or the successful fulfillment oP t~anaportation
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