NEW SOVIET RAILROAD EQUIPMENT; COMPARISON DIESELS WITH STEAM LOCOMOTIVES

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80-00809A000700110140-2
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• Original Classification: C
• Document Page Count: 3
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: September 15, 2011
• Sequence Number: 140
• Publication Date: May 12, 1953
• Content Type: REPORT

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CLASSIFICATION CONFIDENTIAL
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MOSCOW BRAKE PLANT DESIGNS NEW AIR VALVE -- Moscow, Vechernyaya Moskva,
27 Oct 52
NEW SOVIET RAILROAD EQUIPMENT;
COMPARISON OF DIESELS WITH STEAM LOCC40TIVES
The Moscow Railroad Car Brake Plant has designed a new-type air brake
valve, the MFZ -135. The new valve, which can be installed on either freight
or passenger cars, reduces braking distance 20 percent. The plant is making
preparations to put the new valve into series production in 1953.
KIEV TRANSSIGNAL PLANT TO INCREASE PRODUCTION IN 1953 -- Moscow, Gudok,
25 Sep 52
In 1953, the Kiev Transsignal Plant will increase its gross output
65 percent. Production of impedance bonds and electric switch machines will
be increased 2 - 2.5 times.
NIZHNEDNEPROI'SK SWITCH PLANT DELIVERIES ABOVE QUOTA -- Moscow, Gudok, 7 Sep 52
Since 1 September 1952, the Nizhnedneprovsk Switch Plant has delivered
hundreds of thousands of rubles worth of material to the railroads above quota.
KALUGA MACHINE PLANT PRODUCES RAIL MOTOR CAR -- Moscow, Vestnik Mashinostro-
yeniya, No 2, 1949
The Kaluga Railroad Machine Building Plant built a rail motor service car
which will be used at railroad repair and construction cites. It will be used
to haul workmen, tools, and materials, as well as for inspection trips over
railroads.
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Named the AS-1, the new car is equipped with a GAZ-51 engine. It has a
1,524-millimeter gauge, a 3,800-millimeter rigid wheel base, and a maximum
load of 20 tons. Its designed weight is 9,000 kilograms, its tractive force
at adhesion 1,250 kilograms. It has a 24-passenger seating capacity, and its
over-all measurements are 7,370 by 2,850 by 2,870 millimeters.
The car runs on two axles, one of which is the driving axle and the other
an idler, or supporting axle. It has cast wheels (Griffin type wheel) with
chilled tires. The axle journals are equipped with cone bearings. The car is
equipped with automobile-type spring rigging, one per axle, the springs being
of the semielliptic type. The car is equipped with both hand and air brakes,
with two brake shoes located on ea
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It is divided into two parts, one part being used by the driver, the
other by passengers. There are three entrances
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the other two for the use of passengers. Special heaters, one in each part,
provide heat in the car.
KEAR'KOV TRANSPORT MACHINE PLANT BUILDS NEW-TYPE DIESELS -- Kiev, Pravda
Ukrainy, 14 Dec 52
Between 1947 and 1950 the Ithar'kov Transport Machine Building Plant built
several hundred 1,000-horsepower TE-1 diesel locomotives. A comparison of
diesel traction with steam traction reveals that maintenance costs for
100 units are 50-60 million rubles less per year for diesels. Also, the vol-
ume of fuel required is 13-14 times less for diesels than for steam locomo-
tives. For example, during the course of a year, 100 diesel locomotives re-
quire 35 trains of liquid fuel, whereas 100 steam locomotives require
450 trains of coal. A diesel can run twice the distance of a steam locomo-
tive before the wheel tires must be machined.
Repair costs are also considerably lower in diesel traction. For
1,000 .locomotive-kilometers, steam locomotives require 100-120 man-hours on
repairs, whereas diesels require 60-70 man-hours for the same distance.
The plant produced the TE-2 diesel, a 2,000-horsepower main-line locomo-
tive, within 2 months after it was designed by plant engineers. The plant
has now designed the TD-4 diesel, a gas-generator diesel locomotive. It
built its first engine in 2 weeks.
Moscow, Gudok, 6 Nov 52
The TE-2 diesel locomotive is 78 tons lighter in weight and 10 meters
shorter than two TE-1 models. Because of its simple design, the TF-2 re-
quires 10-15 percent less labor in building than the TE-1 model. The Khar'-
kov Transport Machine Building Plant has also designer: the TE-3, which is
twice as powerful as the TE-2, and the TE-4, a gas-generator diesel locomo-
tive. The latter type can work on either liquid fuel or mixed fuel. It has
a 2,000-horsepower capacity and works mainly on solid fuel (approximately
70-75 percent). However, if necessary it can easily switch to work on liquid
fuel completely. The new locomotive is made up of three sections. The front
and rear sections are the traction units, while the middle section contains
the gas generator, a stock of coal, the filtering system, gas coolers, and
water.
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FAIL TO FULFILL QUOTAS IN THIRD QUARTER 1952 -- Kiev, Pravda Ukrainy,
29 Oct 52
Ukrainian SRR enterprises of the Ministry of Transport Machine Building
fulfilled their 1952 third-quarter plan by only 84 percent.
Moscow, Vechernyaya Moskva, 4 Nov 52
The transport machine building enterprises of Moscow fulfilled their
1952 third-quarter plan by only 81 percent.
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