ADJUSTMENT OF RAILROAD CAR AXLES TO BROAD OR STANDARD GAUGE

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• Publication Date: May 29, 1950
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COUNTRY Geriany/Ituzania/liunga:iiy/Poland/C 3slovakiaDATE DISTR.
SUBJECT Adjustment of Railroad Car Axles to NO. OF PAGES
Broad or Standard Gauge
ACQUIRED
DATE OF 1949 - February 1950
INFO.
l., The follo?.'ing devices are be.r.C used for the conversion of
freight cars to i:ricie gauge ('.ioviet) or st xdard European
gau $e 25X1 X
a., Tire change from one gauge to the other is effected by
a change of the wheel sets:, This procedure, which require .j
hoisting the car body,, was used by the Germans before ':'orl -
"ar 110 Tor a detailed descril,ti on of this m9 th,~
.~ertinent technical dataaq w) revious report:
ba The conversion is made b.x adjusting the -%,heels to the
desired gauge on a special as ,l3 s al.plyixir, hydraulic flower,,
This more r. rod ern ae thod , wh i `:L ' x.,s s be en u..ed to come extent
since 1948, rei~ui res sp.e dial. lLy constructed axles and sl: -dial
adjusting dovicei at border : tatione. For the ;;.eminent.
technical data aanG drawi.n s, see another re,.ort,,,%
2(, a,:anufacture of convertible c r axles, according to the 1,r oce
d.ure mentioned in .,ara lb above
ao Czech oslov akia ;
This country,, - whether by 'oviet order or on Y is own
initiative is not known, w vies the first to de-velop and
rsianufucture, in 194E ,~ the adjustable car axle fo the
conversion of freight cars to ctandard gauge or '-oviet p;zjure;,
(1) It is known that the se axles are being, mtxnuf a,tured in
two branc;x plants of the rationalized Tetra :slant; iGe,. the
irague -6wichov I'lajnt v.ith a daily outk,ut of five conv, ble
freight cars, and the }3.oprivnice slant, Mich has a
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(2) Freight car Hd j'us tins facilities for the corvf r si on
of such modern wheel axles are at the Czechoslovakian 25X1X
transloading station of Cerna on the Czechoslovakian-
Sovi et border.,
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(1) o far it 1s only known that two Czech f reigrit Cars
fitted v.itb acjustable a4les ire checked in the Gyoer
Railroad CLir Factory on the bf:sis of au-;plied technical
drawings.;.' ! * It may be asEur-ed that the 11roductiran
of such adjustable car t?.heels has started in the r:ean-
time .
(2) nccording to a still ur)coniirrr:.ed rel;ort, ennineers
ndrras :.:ins and GS-oer y uzont.y of the Ganz Failroad
Car Factory in -Budalvest desicned in the : ttnwter of 1049,r
a new type freight czar with tree axles cuickly k;er-
r:,itt,irng, a conversion to broec t auge or Euro;.,ean gauge
,,att little effort,
(3) T',o hydraulic adjusting, plants are available at the
iun ,t rian railroad station of .1.ahony on the Novi e t border,;(' #*
c, 1 gland and Rumania
Concerning these two countries it is only known that the
older xaethod developed by the. Gk=rraans, as r.ntioned in
Sara is above, is in use in Rur: '2ia chiefly for the con-
version of tank cars. No irfor::iz&tion is available relative
to the use or a,anufacture of f raig, ht cars with adjustable
axles or the existence of hydraulic adjusting; facilities
at 'tiansloadix,g 1.oints on the iclish- ovi.et or :hurarxnianz
Soviet borders. It may be exfscted that with the si;rceding
of the modern r:roccdure for the, oonvers`, on of railroad cars
to `.ov lit gaup e or .uro jean gau 'e s such ad'us table wheel
axles a.na the ,,ertir ent adjusting facili ties .,All soon be
built and utilized in these countries also,
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(1) Until now only Cer. an type zed jus table cars have been
observed. They are designed i4r an exchange Of the. wheel
sets in accordance with the irocedure mentioned in earaa le
abov I''e se cars have an 'Ir" P-Acided to their type desi.,gna-
tion.) (..
(2) It is reported that the :ager.on C er Factory
in Goerlitz (i.revious design tion V'Ar ag) has been i)ro-
ducine in quantity, since eter-iber l -i.89 the so-'called
C 0erlitz turntable ja tented in 923. These turntables
may be used for the attach,:,eri`, of wheel sets having, either
the standard ~iuroican gauge of .': 435 mm or t h wide gauge
(:soviet) of 1504 . ssurThese turntables were f'? rst used
for the new fast-train cc ache s built by the factory as
roi,eration deliveries < similar re_g:ort has been received
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on the Railroad Car Factory in k.:riendorf, now a
Transmash Soviet corporation l: lant , according; to
which fast.>triin coaches equij.ed with h3idraulic
device for a conversion to Soviet gauge are being
built. ' both the mentioned plants use the older 25X1X
procedure described in pars la above;,
(3) The manufecture of undercarriages or ,,;heel sets
for the conversion of gauges by an ad jue tNent of the
wheels :as resorted for. the Railroad Car Factory in
Dessau, also a 'rrtansmasist. soviet cort.crution lant.
The adjusting of the wheel axles i`ro:n European to
,soviet gauge is done by hydraulic ~..ressure a the axle s
being, extendeu in a way similar to a telescope, No
details on the rate of ,production are available. The
de..ign of these railroad cars is in accordance :-pith the
modern procedure mentioned in ;ara lb,
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