ECONOMIC - RAILROAD EQUIPMENT

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• Document Page Count: 3
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: July 5, 2011
• Sequence Number: 822
• Publication Date: October 3, 1949
• Content Type: REPORT

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CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCYSEC LT REPORT
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Enterprieee of the Main Administration of Railroad-I4aohine Buildi-n. Plants
of the Ministry of Tiansportatios -J".SR have recently produced a number of new
complex maohimee which will.aean a etbetantial increase in labor productivity
in railroad enterprises. A new universal machine., designed by Stalin Laureate
Taladhenko, can remova earth, slag, tnd snow. These plants h-?ve alt,o completed
the first six now plows and mcdcls of othar machinee, including a gravel
remover, fast detector car (vsgon-defektoekop), aedembling and reconditioning
handcar for use on electrif..-d sections, and mobile Jacks.
Teets of the new M-135 univereat- aotanatic brake, designed by,the inventor
*trosov, have been completed with outstaudiag results on the roads of the Far
East Railroad Okrug. The brake is suitable for use on passenger trains, on
level ground or mountainous terrain, and with eupty or loaded trains. Under
any conditions, the engiLeer can brake the train in three ways -- gradual, com?-
pleta atop, or emergency. The brake can be shifted to emergency after either
gradual or ooaplete braking. After once releasing the brake, the engineer can
brake again without waiting for the system to be recharged. One of the most
valuable assets of its design is the continuous ot%arging of the brake cylinders,
independent of'their capacity or the release of th- piston rode. The brake
a7atem can also be charged without the locomotive. The brake is effective at
any moment as a result of this uninterrupted charging.
In 1949, all new steam, Diesel; and electric locemotiveo and passenger and
freight ire, being built in Soviet plants, will be equipped with this new type
of brake.
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NEW HAND BRAKE FOR MOUNTAINOUS COUNTRY -_- Zarya Poetoka, No 149, 31 Jul 49
Recently, tests of a new hand. brake for trains operating in areas having
sharp inclines was tested on the Shurab-Isfara section. Usually five or six
flat cars loaded wit,i rock are added to trains operating under these conditions
to add braking power. The new brake, which is removable, permits the trains to
uispenee with the extra freight care. Running without the extra care acoeleratep
freight-car turnaround time and shipment of coal from mines. With the brake,
in one month the "Tedzhikugol "' Trust was able to ship 30 trainloads of coal
more than in the month preceding the adoption of the brake. The brake was de
signed by Engineer Bazhenov.,
BRAKE SHOE PERFVTRD, ADOPTED -- Kazakhetanakaga Pravda, No 143, 24 Jul 49
Akmolinsk -- last year senior engineer Sergey Sergeevich Pavlov of the
Kuehmurun depot perfected a locomotive brake shoe. This device together with
skillful operation of the locomotive made possible a record run of 150,000
ktlaoeters between overhauls. Pavlov`'n brake shoe has found wide usage on
tho j raganda Trunk Line. and has intareated engineers o,' other railroad' lines.
and are now
a pamphlet
The directors of the Karaganda Railroad have published
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prepppTing an illustrated poster to help, popu1pu shoe.
POLISR LOCOl TIVE EXHIBITED IN MOSCOW -- f udok, No 100, 21 Aug 49
A. Series PT-47 passenger locomotive having a 2-8-2 wheel arrangement is
on display in the Moscow Passenger Station of the October Railroad System 0a a
part of the Polish Industrial Exhibition in Moscow. The locomotive weI_ghs 106
tons and has a tractive force of 16,800 kilograms and a top speed of 110 kilo-
meters per hour. The locomotive was manufactured by the Chrzanoveki Locomotive-
Building 1 Yt near Krakow.
Also on display is a aerial-produced sleeping car built by the Pozman
plant, which was bombed by the Americans and British in the last days ox the
war. The plant Is now fully reconetruoted. A dining car and a mail car produced
serially by the Wroclaw Plant are also on e-ieplay.
KAIIJGA PANT REPORTS SUCCS`3SKS -- (cdok, No 97, 14 Jul 49
T.ring the second quarter of 1949 the Saluga Machine-Building Plant (head,
N. Kholodkov) inoreas3d the volume of production 47 percent over the correspond-
ing period of 1948. Labor productivity rote 36 percent, and profits during the
quarter amounted to 2,337,000 rubles. labor consumption for basic products
was lowered 19.8 percent, including 20.5 portent for internal combudtion lbcc-
motives and 23.2 percent of freight trolleys.
The 'Dlant has begun aerial-cyclic assembly of the dismountable ID inspection
hand oar.
RAIL SAUIWENT DELIVERY UP -- Krasnyy Flot, No 179, 31 Jul 49
In 1948, USSR railroads received. from industry 53 percent more locomotives,
45 percent more freight cars, and 34 percent more rails, than in 1947. About
1,600 kilometers of track have been equipped with Stalin laureate Tantsyur'e
automatic block-signal equipmont.
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Pravda, No 212, 31 Jul 49
percent; main,-line steam locemotivee, 11 percent;. main-line electric locomotives,
130 percent,an3 output of-Min-line freight care rose 51 percent, in comparison
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