NEW LOCOMOTIVES BUILT, REPAIR METHODS IMPROVED

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• Publication Date: July 5, 1950
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NEW LOCOMOTIVES BUILT,
REPAIR METHODS IMPROVED
NEW LOCOMOTIVES INTRODUCED -- Gudok, No 25, 26 Feb 50
Since the end of the war a group of designers, headed by L. S. Lebedyan-
skiy, of the Kolomna Plant imeni Kuybyshev has completed its project, begun
during the war, on A steam freight locomotive having a 2-10-0 wheel arrange-
ment. The object of the project was to make the locomotive more serviceable
and resistant. to wear and to guarantee its large-scale serial production on
the basis of interplant cooperation. The Kolomna designers were awarded a
Stalin Prize for their efforts. The series L locomotive, a considerable num-
ber of which have gone into service, is everywhere gaining a good reputation.
In designing a steam locomotive with a high tractive force, locomotive-
building plants have proposed three variants, all of which have been put into
practice. The machines are different in design but satisfy the same operational
requirements. All three of the experimental locomotives are now undergoing
tests, and the most efficient design will be chosen not on the basis of design
and theoretical conclusions, but after complete testing of the models in prac-
tice.
The Kolomna "lent has designed an articulated steam locomotive having a
weight on each driving axle of about 19 tons.
The Voroshilovgrad Plant imeni Oktyabrlskaya revolyutsiya is working on an
original technical solution of the problem of reducing the dynamic augment.' The
first locomotive in, the world to be equipped with a machine with diverging pis-
tons (raskhodyashchiysya porshen').
The third variant is a 2-10-I+ steam freight locomotive built by the Ulan-
Ude Plant.
This year a highly efficient steam locomotive designed by Academician S. P.
Syromyatnikov will be built.
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In the postwar period serial production of the improved series Su steam
passenger locomotive was begun. The Sum is equipped with "elephant ear"
smoke deflectors. Industry is also producing models of a 4-8-4 passenger lo-
comotive designed in the Kolomna plant by order of the Ministry of Transpor-
tation.
Serial production of an improved electric locomotive, the VL-22m, having
a weight on axle of 22 tons, has been set up. The capacity of the VL-22m is
117 percent of that of the VL-22 electric locomotives produced earlier.
Since 1946 three new types of Diesel locomotives have been designed:
TE-1, TE-5, and TE-2. The TE-1 went into serial production in 1947. Two
models of the closed-body type Tea-5 were produced in 1948 for regions where
the winter is especially severe. Also in 1948, the TE-2, an articulated loco-
motive of doubled capacity, was built for lines with high traffic density and
sections with difficult grades.
The Kharkov Transport Machine-Building Plant has produced a Diesel loco-
motive of new design, Model TE-2.
DIESEL, ELECTRIC LOCOMOTIVE OUTPUT UP -- Gudok, No 34, 19 Mar 50
The production of Diesel locomotives and electric locomotives in 1949
considerably exceeded in quantity the output of locomotives of these types
during the 6 prewar years.
At present tests of steam freight locomotives of three. new types built
in 1949 designed by Lebedyanskiy, Sharoyko, and Anikeyev are being conducted'
on the railroad systems of the USSR network. Also, a new powerful passenger
steam locomotive essentially differing in design from, the series Su locomo-
tive has been built.
Along with the creation of new types of locomotives, Su, SO, and L loco-
motives are being modernized. The series Su locomotive, with an improved
steam distribution mechanism, uses 5 percent less fuel than usual. Using the
heat from gases given off has resulted in a fuel saving of about 8 percent for
the modernized series SO locomotive.
ELECTRIC LOCOMOTIVES EQUATED TO STEAM UNITS -- Gudok, No 23, 22 Feb 50
One electric locomotive in operation replaces 2-2k steam locomotives of a
powerful series, and one rail motor car train consisting of one rail mc.tor cur
and two motor car train cars replaces 1 1/3 locomotives and 13 ordinary subur-
ban-service type passenger cars.
KIEV DEPOT REPAIRS LOCOMOTIVES -- Gudok, No 14, 1 Feb 50
The Kiev Depot imeni Andreyev is a repair base for passenger locomotives
of the whole Southwestern Railroad Okrug. The depot at present has about 20
hoist cranes, including bridge cranes, a clewing crane, and telphers. Hoist-
ing of heavy weights is mechanized in the overhaul shop, the washing shop, the
machine shop, the electrical shop, and the wheel yard. At present all opera-
tions for dismantling and assembling locomotives are mechanized.
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As is known, interchangeability of parts is important for accelerating re-
pair. In overhaul, wheel pairs with journals and suspended springs, spring
hangers, equalizers, spring plates (ressornaya nakladka) and braces (skoba),
the side rod mechanism, slide valves with rings, injectors and boiler valves,
and tender trucks are not repaired, but replaced. In washing repair, slide
valve rings, universal crank pins, injector and boiler valves, and also many
small parts are replaced. Because of the supply of interchangeable parts, over-
haul of a series Su locomotive can often be completed in 2 days.
Overhaul of locomotive Su 214-30 was completed in 2 days. At the preceding
washing repair a preliminary technical schedule was compiled. In this were in-
cluded, along with the usual overhaul operations, such operations as welding cracks
and installing reinforcing braces on the frame at the foreward journal guide of the
driving axle, replacement of the right slide valve bearing adjustment of the
left slide valve bearing, adjustment of the right cylinder, replacement of the
piston rod of the right cylinder and the center sill of the tender truck. The
following assemblies were prepared in advance for the locomotive: wheel pairs
with fitted journal bearings; suspended springs and assembled side rod mechanism;
truck axles with journals and parts of the centering device; equalizers with
prisms and equalizer blades (nozh); spring hangers with plates; right piston rod
with crosshead, machined bushings and piston rod rings; injectors and boiler
valves; two side rod bearings; two fully assembled tender trucks.
The locomotive spent 10 hours in the washing pen, 33 hours in the overhaul
shop, and 3 hours in the firing-up pen, for a total layover of 46 hours. .
In firing up locomotives, the depot uses liquid gas to ignite the coal in
the firebox, and also an axial ventilator, made in the depot, to create an arti-
ficial draft. The firing up takes 80-90 minutes. The difference between the
cost of firewood and the cost of gas alone saves the depot 8,000 rubles per year.
Fireless firing up is also done. The depot shunting locomotive serves as a
source of hot water, and an injector has been installed to super-heat the water
further.
High-speed overhaul has become a practice of the depot. At present the de-
pot is preparing to introduce high-speed overhaul for series S locomotives.
During 1949 locomotive overhaul took an average of 84.7 hours and washing
took an average of 13.4 hours. This is considerably less than the established
norms. In 1949 the average run for locomotives between. overhauls was 104,779
kilometers.
CHROME-PLATING SHOP IN KIEV DEPOT -- Gudok, No 5, 11 Jan 50
Workers of the repair shops of the Kiev Passenger Depot imeni Andreyev have
pledged to put a chrome-plating shop into operation by 12 March. The shop will
chrome plate equipment for all passenger locomotives of the railroad systems of
the Southwestern Railroad Okrug.
KOLOMNA PLANT TO IMPROVE METAL SHOPS -- Moskovskaya Pravda, No 38, 4 Apr 50
An organizational technical plan, basically directed toward increasing the
work of metallurgical shops, has been worked out for the Kolomna Plant imeni V. V.
Kuybyshev. Thirty percent of all allocations for capital expenditures during
1950 will be spent on reconstrucing these shops.
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