TOMSK RAILROAD OPERATIONS

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• Document Creation Date: December 23, 2016
• Document Release Date: April 23, 2013
• Sequence Number: 5
• Publication Date: May 24, 1954
• Content Type: REPORT

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CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY REPORT
INFORMATION REPORT
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COUNTRY USSR
SUBJECT Tomsk Railroad Operations
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traffic division is headquartered in Topki. This division, including
the dispatchers, handled the following flow of traffic:
a) Xurga - TOpki - Kemerovo
b) TOpki Belovo
c) Below) - Kuznetskly
3. The nuMner of locomotives that are to be found in the principal railroad
yards are:
a) TOpki - 35 c) Usyaty - 30
t) Belovo 15 d) KUinetskiy - 13
This is the number of locomotives required to handle the daily traffic of
24 trains each way on the single track and 48 trains each way on the double
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are also kept in storae :tor military reserve.
4. The series or types of locomotives that are assigned to this railroad line are:
a) Freight traffic, series E, EL, 3;5 T, irx
b) Passenger traffic, series ct 'cY
c) Shunt locomotives, series 0, Ou, Od
5. About six to seven passenger locomotives in series CI CY, are assigned to the
Topki station. Shunt locomotives are distributed as follows:
a) TOpki - 6 c) Kolchuginov - 3
b) Kemerovo - 2 d) BelovoOne of these operates on the
e) Usyaty - 7 , Belovo-RUrievsk branch ling
f) Kumnetskiy - 5
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6. Tons carried in both directions for a year on the following lines are approximately:
a) Yurga - TOpki Belovo: 10 million t- km 5ioss w-67 or 7 million t- km
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b) Usyaty Belovo: 15 million t- km gross 1.717 or 10,500,000 t- km
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c) Kuznetskiy Usyaty: 2,500,000 t- km STOSL Wt7 1,750,000 t- km
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The locomotive kilometers per locomotive in 24 hours is between 240 - 255.
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7. There are
four types of rails on this line:
a) Ia - 50 kg per m
b) IIa 43 kg per m
c) Ina - 37 kg per m
d) IVa 30 kg per m
on all the main lines
on all the main lines and sidings
on all the station tracks
on all the reserve or private tracks 5arehouses
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8. There are about 30 railroad administrations in the USSR. One office is in
Tomsk which controls an area of two to four thousand kilometers from Tomsk to
Stalinsk and from Novosibirsk to Irkutsk. Another railroad administration office
is in Chita and another in Omsk.
9. Each administration has from 20 thousand to 30 thousand freight cars under its
jurisdiction. Serial numbers consist of seven. figures. Each car has the name
of the administration, USSR, and inventory number. Destination markings on
the cars are made according to a special instruction manual which the railroad
administration prepares for each station.
10. , For example: If a freight car is to go no further than the next junction or
neighboring station it is attached to a "collecting" train. If a fright gar
Is to go through one or more junctions or stations it is marked: AC -L,
AC3, etc. All freight cars that carry valuable material or products, such as
grain; furs, fabrics, and parts of machinery are sealed.
11. Total capacities for two-axle cars in the various yards are:
a)
Tbpki
700
d)
Belovo
800
b)
Kemerovo
500
e)
Usyaty
800
c)
Kolchugino
400
f)
Kuznetskiy
ifreight station - 500
passenger "J - 200
12: Rails are fastened to the ties with spikes and track bolts are very rarely
used. The fastening of the rail spikes to the ties is done in one of two
- ordinary or offset 5ent in Z fashiog. Rail ties are made of pine
trees and are saturated with creosote in one of the- two special plants at
Marina or Krasnoyarsk. The ties last from seven to eight years.
13. The ruling grade on the Tomsk Railroad line is 9%; with a minimum radius of
ao m on the curves. The grades on the curves are only 8%. The Tomsk rail
line does not have any bridges.
1k. The average monthly wages of the railroad employees are:
a) Cleaners or sweepers: 200 rubles
b) Conductors: 300 to 350 rubles
c) Engineers: 400 to 45o rubles plus a bonus which depends
on locomotive kilometers exceed-
ing the normal quota
d) Supervisory personnel: 600 to 800 rubles
The Tomsk Railroad employs about 1% women used mostly as guards.
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15. Along the Tomsk Railroad line there are many slave labor camps. Almost all
the 9rtoQuers 111 then campo ore peanuts rram tbe Ukr 50X1atne,
16. There are about seven to eight thousand slave laborers working the Osinovski mines
atIKandalep 5ig. About the same number work at the Kuznetskiy mines the
Aralichevsk mines at Akchurla, and the Aphoilinsky mines at Kalzagai Es-i1,7. The
latter two mines are located north of Usyaty.
17. Mining at the Kolchuginov and Kemerovo mines is done by volunteers gree
workmen7. A railroad line to the iron ore mines at Telibes and Temir7Tau
area was started by the GPU in 1932, but was not completed as of 1935. There
are zinc mines in the Saltair mountains in the Hurievsk area and a zinc metal
plant is located in Belovo.
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