TRANSPORTATION - RAILROADS

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• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: July 18, 2011
• Sequence Number: 821
• Publication Date: June 23, 1949
• Content Type: REPORT

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SUBJECT Transportation -Railroads
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8i09C0iT lr+tI 'AAD l3ITBNAg_PRO NOTiL
BnllaatirR ~gerstin~e of 0998 railronde are exoeptioneliy faulty, for
the cost pert bsoanee of a laok of plan.:i~g in hauling bnllnet, Improper
l4adiag and acloading of oars oarrying ballast, Lq;ing of improper ballast,
and clogging oY 'the roadbed.
Iep~roper planning of *he e.'sgl^IStatl~r and use ~* deposits of bnllnet
material osoeee gree! waste. In 19h8 weak root from the Dankov quarry of the
n-?uow-Donbneo Railroad System vas healed 300 - 400 kilometers to the YaroeL-vl'
Railroad ~etem, while n better gnnlity of bnllnet mnterinl could have Desn
obtained Eros the Daitrovrkiy quarry, 70 kilometers Prom where the bnllnet
was laid. On the 9onth Donets Railroad 3yetem, the Prokhorovkn quarry and n
gravel plant are S;aand ao~ kiloae*vr agnx~, but pour-quality Band from the
quarry wed laid for bdliest on the heavily-trn~eled Moeeov-9ooh1 11ne and
stone iron the plan+, wee sect to other rondo.
Metal waste and gravel from the bottoms of rarioue lakes end ponds are
need in icuignifioaat gnantitiea, while very often send, poor ballast a'. best,
is hanlsd from great distneoas.
.There Se no systematic plan for replacing bnllnet having a small
eupportiog capacity, 6uoh ns eaod, with material having n higher supporting
onpaoity. It Se enggeeted that where quarry gravel or rock ie not available,
smell particles of root be mixed rith the send. Sand oontal.ning clay pnrtiolee
fe need la vnrioue places, with the result that the roadbed Le weakened and
eagglag davelope. Very often the heavy bnllnet used Se of poor quality, oon-
tniaing ezoeseively l.nrge~ frgmente which work leoee and damage the ties.
There are deficlenoles in transporting ba'laet. Care are often only
partizl]~ loaded at quarries and plants, and are re9urned to the quarries and
p]snte not completely unloaded.
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It hag been shown that on many made, coal felling auto the roadhed
eoaprieee .6.6 percent of thv =eight of the ballast. On one road, coal fallen
onto the ro~~ibed amcnnted to 33o tons per ki).ometer.
Ballast aoaprlaoa 3ci peasant of the entire oust of reconatxvoting one
kilemetea pf railroad. Operatiogal ezpVneea in oonnectlon with ballast in one.
year constitute from 3d to 54 peroegt of tho entire maintenance poet of one
kilo~eter of road. Ihtrodaotlon of efficient stethoda of ballasting nod
ballraet maintenance ronld save ;~eariy nn eeciaaated x,000 rubles per kilometer.
9harteaing the. ae~erage hnnl of ballasting viaterial by only 25 kilometers could
free 800 - 1,200 freight oars per day.
RAIIIiOAD DBLItXB C08TY,Y -- Gndok,~ No 66, 3 Juo 49
Iq tho Orekhovo 9tntion of the Moecpv-l~razan' Railroad 5yetem, a one-hour
delay of one freight oar costa the htiate 3 rub"lac b0 kopvke, a one-hour delay
of a locomotive with etencn up poste the State 34 nib lee, and if a train Se one
haur late, it poste tho.3tate 275 rubles.
MOSC03i f'AYIA TO IIiTRODOCB ~fP80VFd -. Moekovekiy Bol'ehevik,
~o' g0,, 2 liar 49
The isthod of awltahiag railroad pare from a.~ tank lino to another in
tho l~aeaow teaminnl ha.s ra?aided gnclunged for many years. 9witohing a gzoup
of oexe from xhe Ootobe: Railroad stem to the Western, according to estab-
1lahod tradition, pould be parried out in eoveral steps: a looomotlve aqd
traic`orew from the Xoeoow-Halt Bnilrond vou13 be dispatched to ghorrlno to
take the train to the nenreot ~agotion etntioc of the Belt Railroad (in this
saes, to the Likhobory Station, 2 tihmetoae from Bhovrino). Hera, the loco-
motive sad ores could be changed, and a acv engineer would run the train 8 kibo-
metara to Preeoya, there the whole proeeee would he repeated. At last; nfi,er
an additional 3.5-kilometer trip, the oars would arrive at the Idoeoov Freight
Station of the Western Rallroe3.
The hand of the Moscow-Belt Railroad decided to b=eak this tradition.
At the beginning of last year, he proposed the through passage of tralue from
one system to anothea, without changing locomotive and stew at each admitting
and dieohnrglog ~unatloa station. By this method, the locomotive and train
prase taking oharg~ of the train at Ehovrino would take it, vithoug changing,
to the Dearest distributing station of the other system. .This speeds up the.
stitching of height from one trank line to another approzimateiy 1,000 per-
cent, better utilizes looo'aotivea, and i^ a 24-hour period eaves ip to 13,000
oar-boars.
Although Lhis method proved well in practice, AL'terman, head of the
Adainistration of Reginonl ?raffio, ordered the old mothod restore: on
16 8sptember 1949.
list weq n telegram from Cnndobin, Vioe-Minister of Coamuinicntione,
ordering the restoration of throngh passage of trains between stations by
25 >@(b) on plane for fi.rther eleotrificntioa of thJ
rcilroed lines o~'th~ lfosoot terainal. Whea ther3 plane are completed, Lhe
nottork of electrified liaee of the tineoow tef~ionl will be increased more
than three tines. The eleotrifiontion playa are included in the general plan
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for reconstruction of the capital and w1?i make possible, in particular, the
more eztensive development of housing in suburban regions. long-distanoe
passenger and freight service etll also tie, r~nv~rt?d to e).ectricity along
with suburban and Local Lines. In this way, operating ezpendi`:uree vill be
r..ut Sn'half and the needs rot the railroad for coal mill be cut 60 peraeat.
A large amount of rolling stook still ba released for ether needs of the
aatianal transport system.
Partlolpating in the dlecLSSion following the report were Bagayev, ohief
of the Central Railroad Okrug; Ueyev, director of "Maeeuer$o" (Mosoo~r Pover);
8n1'nikov, ohlef of the 1~1a1a Administration of Eloctriflcat.lon, MinieCry of
Tr4aepartetiaa U99R; lYnohuchenko, ahie;f of the M7ecav=Ryazan' Railroad System;
Lednev, chief of "Soyuztrnnsproyekt" (All-Union Planning and ~Zrveying
Asso6ls,tion) of the Ministry of Traneport.ation; Babanav, Minister of Eleotrionl
Iadnetry II$Sft; Berskov, ohief of Conetsuation Administration fto 19; sad
iYoeenko, Minleter of Traaeport=elnchine Building.
MOSCOW SUBYAY IMPHOPRD -- Leninaradekayn Pravda, Na 120, 24 24eyr 49
Improvement of the kloecov eubvq' is progressing. Comfortable oars of
nev design tiave bben adQed to the rolling stock. Substatiar'.' ere being aoo-
voTted ~o aut~stia reerots aontrol. With the help of a push-butt an control
s'.etem, the central dispatcher oausee the automatic tranemis:~ion of eleotrio
povor to certain eubrrny eeotiDne. The ooavoreion of a single aubtltetloa to
automatia oontral g11L anus nbaut 806,000 rubles a year.
Improved o-onaLruotion of escalators bee nut dovn thr, naive in their opar-
atioa. A nev esoelstor has been designed, which weighs less than the forger
oae, Se ~aeler to repair, and requires Lees eleat~ic paver for its operation.
Eleotromeohanical natomatic train stops have been intraduoed tc control
the speed of trains: they nutooiatlanlly atop a train if it passes through n
oertnln eeotion at nn ezoee,aive speed. Anew trace-tasting car has been put
into operation.
D[03COW-II7PSE RAILROAD dA8 ASW DffiSP.9 -- Moekovskiy Hol'ehevik, No 54, 6 Msr 49
Hev Dieaei locop-otivee are operating can the biosuov-gursk Railroad 3yetea.
Rail oommunicntloos betveen Moeoov and ?erpukhov are carried, out entirely by
suoh eervioe.
RAIIaZOAD bLiSL-SAVIIf(i PROCAAM 9000&'~33FSTL -- Gudok, fto 61, 22 Msy 49
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Fuel savings by railroads of the II99R dnrirg the first quarter 1949
aaonated to 1,400,000 tone of coal.
LIB OF STATIONS PUBLI9H80 -- Gudok, fto 65, 1 Jun 49
A Liet of the etet;one of the USffi2 rallzond network ie rov nvatlable.
The list gives the distances of etntivas from N.oecov, their territorial loontlon
nod passenger rates, and an appendix with a dingra:a of the USSR railroad net-
work. The pnblioation has 253 pages end aoets 10 rub lee. It may be bought at
the printing offices of railroad nevepapere sad their authorized agents, at
stores of Eoglz (Bookeelling Aseooiation of State Publishing Sousse) end at
kloehke of Soyuzpechr.t' Central Adainistration for Distribution of Preen.
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