RAILROAD LINES AND EQUIPMENT IN THE RSFSR AND BELORUSSIAN SSR

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• Document Creation Date: December 19, 2016
• Document Release Date: April 4, 2006
• Sequence Number: 9
• Publication Date: March 31, 1954
• Content Type: REPORT

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CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY
INFORMATION REPORT
This Document contains information affecting the Na-
tional Defense of the United States, within the mean-
ing of Title 18, Sections 793 and 794, of the U.S. Code, as
amended. Its transmission or revelation of its contents
to or receipt by an unauthorized person to prohibited
by law. The reproduction of this form is prohibited.
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COUNTRY USSR (RSFSR/Belorussian SSR)
Railroad Lines and Equipment in
the RSFSR and Belorussian SSR
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1. The single-track Khrompik (N 56-53, E 59-581 - Kazan - Moscow railroad line was
fitted with a modern electric block system. The distances between the block
stations were 800 - 1,000 meters. The block system in use is similar to that
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There ;s a new Soviet locomotive fitted with five driving axles and two bogie
axles (Spurachsen) that had an estimated capacity of 3,000 hp. This locomotive
wasused mainly for' long-distance freight traffic.3 25X1
3. Shunting locomotives were fitted with radio telephones. The locomotives ha
antennasand were probabl fitted with loudspeakers.
radio telephones were in wide use in shunting
locomotives. Locomotives seen at the Khrompik railroad station were fitted
with radio telephone facilities.4
4. Marshalling yards and shunting stations were lighted by spotlights. Two rows
of six to eight spotlights mounted on wooden masts about 30 meters high were
observed.
5. The Borovichi (N 58-24, E 33-55) - Uglovka (N 58-14, E 33 -31) railroad line
was single-track; the Uglovka - Bologoye (N 57-58, E 34-05) line was double
track; the Bologoye - Rybinsk - Yaroslavl line was single-track; and the Kirov -
Molotov line double-track.
6. On the way back to Germany, the Khrompik - Kazan - Moscow 25X1
railroad line was single-trace, while the Moscow - Brest-Litovsk -.Frankfurt/
Oder line was double-track. There were shorn double-track line sections in
the vicinity of Kazan.5 I
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Comment,. Khrompik, 44 km west of Sverdlovsk, is on the double-track
line Sverdlovsk - Kirov - Moscow and not on the single-track line Sverdlovsk -
Kazan - Murom - Moscow,
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2. The equipment of the single-track line with this modern block system would make
it possible to dispatch trains at a density of about 1,000 meters in one-way
traffic. However, since it must be assumed that a sufficient number of passing
sidings are available, the existence of the block system considerably increases
the capacity of the Sverdlovsk - Kazan - Moscow single-track line for two-way
traffic.
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The locomotive, mentioned may have been a type FD locomotive. According to
information available to this office, this type of locomotive has an operating
weight of 135 tons, a speed of 85km per hour, a maximum performance of 2,600
hp, and an overall length of 28.97 meters.
This report confirms statements in the Soviet press on the introduction of radio
telephones for railroad operations.
According to information available to this office, double-track line sections
in existence near Kazan include the Kukm.or - Koinsar and the Korea - Cherkurcha -
Raz.(sic) line sections northeast of Kazan and the Yudino - Zelenyy Dol section '-
west of the city."
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