DIESEL LOCOMOTIVE SERIALLY PRODUCED; VOTES ON LOCOMOTIVES AND RR CARS

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• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: September 27, 2011
• Sequence Number: 94
• Publication Date: December 22, 1950
• Content Type: REPORT

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CLASSIFICATION
CENTRAL INTELLIGENCe AGENCY
INFORMATION FROM
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COUNTRY USSR
SUBJECT Transportation - Railroad equipment
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DIESEL LOCOMOTIVE SERIALLY PRODUCED;
VOTES ON LOCOMOTIVES AND RR CARS
KHARKOV PLANT MAKES TE-2 DIESELS -- Pravda Vostoka, 14 Oct 50
The Kharkov Diesel Locomotive Plant recently began serial production
of powerful, new locomotives. TE-2 diesel locomotives have made their first
runs on the USSR railroads. One of the first locomotives produced was sent
to the locomotive depot of the Tashkent-Tovarnaya station.
TASHKENT SCHOOL TRAINS DIESEL CREWS -- Pravda Vostoka, 25 Oct 50
In the near future 40 diesel locomotive engineers and 35 Diesel locomo-
tive engineer's helpers, who will work on the Tul,.estan-Siberia Railroad Sys-
tem, will graduate from the Tashkent School for Locomotive Engineers-.
ASLKHABAD SYSTEM DIESEL REPAIR POOR -- Gudok, 13 Sep 50
The Diesel locomotive depots of the Ashkhabad Railroad System have re-
ceived some new equipment recently, such as grinding machines, devices for
minor mechanization, facilities for repair of electrical machines, etc. However,
the requirements are still far from being satisfied.
Up to now electricity has been used very little for annealing parts, and
there are no high-frequency installations at all. There is no interchange of r;;,(
experience among the various depots of the system, there are no- testing in-
stallations for many important components in the locomotive depots and diesel
shops, and a single system for assigning repair responsibilities among workers
is lacking.
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GAS-POWERED LOCOMOTIVES DO SHUNTING -- Gudok, 15 Sep 50
Series MK-2-15 internal-combustion locomotives have begun to be used
for spo;t:.ag cars in humpyards and shunting in intermediate stations and
sidings on many railroad systems.
The locomotives are modified to?operate on liquefied gas, a mixture
of butane-propane and butane-butilene fractions. The gas is transported in
special tank cars and is unloaded into special tanks of the type used for
oxygen. The good qualities of this fuel permit the motor to be easily
started at low temperatures, which makes the internal-combustion locomotive
good for operations in the northern regions of the country. Three 40-kilo-
gram cylinders of liquefied gas are sufficient for one day's operation o
the locomotive. A MK-2-15 internal-combustion locomotive can move 6-7 loaded
two-axle cars at one time.
The cost of an internal-combustion-locomotive-hour is 10-12 rubles, as
compared to 45-50 rubles for .a. steam-shunting-locomotive-hour.
The utilization of internal-combustion locomotives for shunting in in-
termediate freight stations gives especially good results, as has been shown
at Kursavka, Karamyka, Nagutskaya, and Buynasks on the Ordzhonikidze Railroad
System.
LOCOMOTIVE AND TUG COMPARED -- Izvestiya, 3 Sep 50
A 1,200-horsepower locomotive is required to move freight weighing 2,000
tons, while a steam tug of the same horsepower hauls up to 25,000 tons.
KALININGRAD PLANT MAKES DUMP CARS -- Izvestiya, 11 Oct 50
All-metal self-discharging cars made by the Kaliningrad Railroad Car
Building Plant can be seen on many railroad systems.
RR CARS GET WINTER LUBRICANTS -- Gudok, 6 Oct 50
On 20 September the change-over of railroad car journals from summer to
winter lubricants began on the railroad systems of the USSR. By directive of
the Ministry of Transportation, this operation should be finished by 20 October.
The experience of last winter shows .hat those railroad systems where cold
weather found summer lubricants in the journal boxes had serious disruptions in
train movements. The lubricants in the journals congealed, and the packing
froze to the axle journals and was turned inside out with the very first revolu-
tion of the wheel. As a result, on the Chelyabinsk sector of the South Ural
System alone, during 20 days of December, when there was cold weather, there were
166 train delays and 115 cases of care being uncoupled because of hot boxes.
This summer, all railroad systems were amply supplied-with winter lubricants,
packing, and spare parts, and, as of 2 October, the plan on the network as a whole
had been exceeded by 29,000 cars. However, while the Central and Volga okrugs
had exceeded their'plans by 10,000 c.:.rs each, the Donets Okrug was li000 cars be-
hind and the Southwestern Okrug was almost 800 behind.
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