RAILROADS CONSUME RAILROADS CONSUME 30 PERCENT OF COAL PRODUCTION

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• Publication Date: July 12, 1950
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CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY REPORT 50X1-HUM
INFORMATION FROM
FOREIGN DOCUMENTS OR RADIO BROADCASTS CD NO.
LANGUAGE
COUNTRY USSR
SUBJECT Transportation - Railroads
Economic - Coal
HOW
PUBLISHED Twice-weekly newspaper, bimonthly periodical
'WHERE
PUBLISHED Moscow
DATE
PUBLISHED 1946, 9 Apr 1950
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REPORT NO.
SOURCE Newspaper and periodical as indicated.
RAILROADS CONSUME 30 PERCENT OF COAL PRODUCTION
URGE IMPROVEMENT OF RR FUEL CONSUMPTION -- Gudok, No 43, 9 Apr 50
About 30 percent of the fuel produced'in the USSR is consumed by railroad
transport, and of this quantity more than 80 percent is burned in locomotive
fireboxes. The cost of firing locomotives comprises about 20 percent of all
the operating expenditures of the railroad systems.
In recent years railroad transport has achieved considerable success in
saving fuel. In 1949, the expenditure of equivalent 00egross-ton
kilometers on the USSR railroad network was 9.7 percent
figure and 20 percent lower than the 1947 figure. In the Central, Western,
Donets, and Northwestern railroad okrugs the 1949 expenditures were 24-27 per-
cent less than the 1947 figures.
However, in 1949 more than 30 percent of the locomotive engineers on the
network continually exceeded the norms for fuel consumption. The excess fuel
consumed amounted to 2.7 percent of the total fuel consumption, and on the Vol-
ga, Central Asia, and Ural-Siberian okrugs, the figure was higher. This over-
expenditure cost the state hundreds of millions of rubles and increased the
cost of freight hauling on the network by 0.6 percent.
The locomotive engineers themselves are not the only persons to blame.
Expenditure of fuel depends also on workers connected with traffic, track,main-
tenance, communications, and other operations. In 1949 on, the Moscow-Donbass
System reduction of the. speed of train traffic because of restrictions caused
an overexpenditure of'fuel amounting to more than 4 million rubles. On'the
Orenburgystem about 37,000 tons of fuel were expended above the norm, and
this overexpenditure increased the cost of freight hauling by 1.4 percent. on
the South Donets System stops at closed signals alone caused an overexpenditure
of fuel amounting to 1.6 million rubles. It has been calculated that on the
average over the network each stop of a train costs 18 rubles just for the ex-
uendiApre of additional fuel for starting up again, and a restriction requiring
decelpation causes a loss of 16 rubles.
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The cost of a ton of equivalent fuel is determined according to the estab-
lished fuel schedule, i.e., the proportion of the various types and sorts of
fuel in the total fuel consumption. On the basis of this, the total fuel ex-
penditures for depots, railroad systems, and okrugs is planned. However, the
practice of changing the planned fuels schedule still exists on the railroad
systems and causes an increase in the expenditure of funds. Planning organiza-
tions should set assignments and make all efforts to decrease the cost of coal.
This year.the okrugs and railroad systems received the established fuel
schedule only at the end of March, when the plans had already been drawn up.
TY.a lack of a planned price for one ton does not permit accurate accounting of
the expenditures for locomotive firing. And without this accounting the cost
of freight handling cannot be planned correctly.
It is necessary to determine the most efficient fuel schedule, on the ba-
sis of which it would be possible to supply bunkers with the right types of
coal.
The price of fuel is determined at present by statistical data derived
from the actual expenditure of monetary funds. The subdivision of this price
into its component elements -- cost of preparation, hauling, and overhead ex-
penses -- is not done. Such detailed accounting is found only in the lower or-
ganizational units. It is necessary that changes of the various elements of
the price of fuel be controlled not only in the railroad systems, but also in
the railroad okrugs and in the Ministry of Transportation.
The Ministry of Transportation makes overpayments to "Glavuglesbyt"
(Main Administration of Coal Marketing) of more than 100 million rubles because
the ash content of coals delivered does not correspond to the established norms.
This also increases the cost of freight hauling.
The efficient compounding of coal mixtures permits large economies of fuel.
On the Ryazan'-Ural System, for instance, the use of gas coals and long-flame
coals in mixture with low-grade coals and anthracites has increased considerably
the effectiveness of the low-grade coals and anthracites.
Planovoye Khozyaystvo, No 2, 1946
A reduction of only one percent in fuel expenditure of locomotives permits
a saving for the national economy of not less than 500,000 tons of coal per
year.
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