TRAIN WEIGHTS RAISED; FUEL ECONOMY PUSHED

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• Publication Date: July 28, 1950
• Content Type: REPORT

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TRAIN WEIGHTS RAI6ED;
FUEL ECONOMY HED
ORDy2IUlQIKIDZL SY8'PE^S RAISES TRAIN WEIGHTS -- Gudok, No 17, 8 Feb 50
.'~`~ sans locomotive engineers operating out o! the Mineral'nyye Vody Loco-
motive Depot oP the Ordzhonikidze Railroad System have begun handling double-
weYght trains weighting 3,000-3,400 tons. This practice is being emulated by
locomotive engineers 3t prakh].adnaye, Groznyy, Berbent, and on the Azerbayd-
zhan 8ailxoad System. The use of double-weight trains has increased the traf-
pir_ capacity of the Melshach-ICaie--Derbent section, where formerly the increase
in freight flow .from youth to north frequently caused congestion of the Makhach-
Kala railroad center, which ae a result wss often compelled to refuse to accept
trains from the neighbariag Grozr~yy division. Consequently, the difficulties
were spread all along the Caucasus main line.
It hoe been calculated that if Daly four double-weight trains are handled
on the Ords.hoailfoidee System per day, the ymariy saving wi11 amount to more Char.
19 million'rublea,
3,x+57-TON TA4tK'CAtt ~~ " dudok No 14, 1 Feb 50
A loeomotive engineer operating out a~ the Irkutsk Depot recently hatil.ecl
a double-Wright tank-ear train weighia6 5, 57
ELEC'!'R".^ LOCOMOTIVES DOUBI~ WNIGH7.' NORM -- '?ravda Ukrainy, No 79, 2 ~4r 50
Two aleotrie locomotives operating out of the Nikopoi' Electric Locomotive'
Depot recrh+,~y haril.ed double-weight trains from Dolgintaevo to Nikopol'. The
trains wFighsd almost 4,000 tons each,
Cud~k, ~q?33, 17 Mar 50
Qn 15 i~srch, two "ore trsine which exceeded the weight nor-,a lay 1,500 tons
pb3,i iiti131.ed by alect:ic locomotives Eras DonBiatsevo to Ni.1[apol'.
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ldORE FU;IGHT NORh1S EXCEEDED n,r Vechernyaya Moskva, No 83, 7 Apr 50
A series L locomotive recently hauled a 1,990-ton train from Mozhaysk
to Moscow. The train weight exceeded the norm by 390 tons.
Another series L loco*~otive hauled an 1,800-ton train from the Depot
imeni I1'ich in Moscow to Mozha~rek. This train exceeded the established
weight norm by~$00 tons.
Gudok, No 62,' 24 clay 50
Locomotives of the Chusovskaya and Usol'skaye depots are hauling trains
weighing up to 4,000 tons.
WESTERN SYSTEMS RAISES TRAIN [WEIGHTS, SPEEDS -- Gudok, No 51, 28 Apr 50
The summer schedule for train traffic on the Western .',ailroad System
calls for a considerable increase in the norms for train weights and average
speed excluding stops.
Since?15 March the weight norm for trains on all of the Moscow-Miask
main line in both directions has been increased ty 100 tons. During the
first 20 days of April, the system handled a totcl of 948 above-norm-weight
trains in which about 180,000 tons of freight above plan were carried.
OAESSA SYSTEM TO RAISE TRAIN' WEIGHTS -- Gudok, No 59, 17 May 50
In honor of Railroad Workers' Day, workers of the Odessa Railroad Sys-
tem have pledged to raise the average weight of freight trains by 35 tone in
comparison with the norm and to handle 4,200 above-norm-weight trains from
blay through July, carrying in them 500,000 tons of freight above plan.
SOUTHWESTERN OKRUG SAVES COAL =~ Komsomol'ekaya Pravda, No 111, 11 May 50
Locomotive workers of the Southweetern Railroad Okrug have saved about
100,Op0 tons of coal since the Yirst of the year. In April, the amount of
fuel saved equaled the amount necessary to run the locomotives of the okrug's?
railroad systems for 3~ days.
So far this year mere than. 52,000 tons of cinders and clinker siftings
have been used.
SOUTHERN SYSTEM REPORTS FUEL SAVINGS -- Gudok, No 21, 17 Feb 50
In 1949, the Southern Railroad System saved 197,000 tons of fuel. Expendi-?
tures of coal were 16 percent under the 1948 figure and 10 percent lower than
the 1940 figure.
Locomotive brigades of the Southern System have pledged to handle not less
than 30,000 above-norm-weight trains and to use not less than 40,000 tons of
fuel wastes during 1950,
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50U]'HERN SYSTEM SAVES COAL -- Gudok, No 46, 16 Apr 50
During March, the Southern Railroad 6ystem saved an amount of coal equal
to the amount necessary to run all the locomotives of the system for 5.5 ~ys?
LENIxGRAD SYSTEMS 8URN5 SHADES, WASTER -- Sovetskaya Kirgiziya, xo 70, 8 Apr g0
During the pest 10 days, the Lettingrad_Railroad System has used more than
1,000 tone of oil shales and over 200 tone of fuel wastes for locomotive fuel.
YUDINO DEP(ri' SAVES FUEL -- Gudok, No 63, 26 May 50
During April, fuel expenditures by the Yudino depot of the Kazan' Rail-
road $ystcW were 15.2 percent below the norm.? Engineers ran 535 trains on the
coal saved.
One locomotive crew succeeded in saving 54.7 tone of fuel, enough to run
16 trains.
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