NEW LOCOMOTIVES BUILT, REPAIR METHODS IMPROVED

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July 5, 1950
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Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2011/08/10: CIA-RDP80-00809A000600320641-4 CLASSIFICATION SECRET SECRET CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY REPOR 50X1-HUM INFORMATION FROM FOREIGN DOCUMENTS OR RADIO BROADCASTS CD NO. SUBJECT HOW PUBLISHED Daily, twice-weekly newspapers; WHERE PUBLISHED Moscow DATE PUBLISHED 11 Jan - 5 Apr 1950 LANGUAGE DATE OF INFORMATION 1950 DATE DIST. Jul 1950 NO. OF PAGES 4 SUPPLEMENT TO REPORT NO. THIS IS UNEVALUATED INFORMATION THIN DOCONINT CONTAINS INFORMATION AFFECTING THE NATIONAL 11FENS1 OFTHE UNITED STATES WITHIN THE MEANING OF ESPIONAGE ACT ND N. S. C., EI AND EE, Al AMENDED. ITS TIIANG1111101 ON THE NIVELATION OF ITS CONTENTS IN ANY MANNER TO AM ONAUTMONIIID PERSON IS PI10- N111TDD MT LAW. IOPR0DUCTTON OF THIS FORM is PNONIIITOD. 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. - 1 - SECRET 1T I NAVY IX I NSRB --H Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2011/08/10: CIA-RDP80-00809A000600320641-4 Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2011/08/10: CIA-RDP80-00809A000600320641-4 SECRET \tk~~ 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. anitized Copy Approved for Release 2011/08/10 :CIA-RDP80-00809A000600320641-4 Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2011/08/10: CIA-RDP80-00809A000600320641-4 SECRET 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. -3- SECRET Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2011/08/10: CIA-RDP80-00809A000600320641-4