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• Publication Date: July 26, 1949
• Content Type: REPORT

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CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY
INFORMATION FROM
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COUNTRY USSR
SUBJECT Railroads
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18 Key 26.Jun 1949
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RAMS'P PRII ARdTIOJS 140; BNUCHIT ))YES -- Gudok, No 75, 2k Jun 49
A coss+ittee sent to the railroad, okrugs in the south to inspect
preparations for handling the coming ha9Test'haa uaoovered a number of
shortcomings. In the Maksimovka and Lauovtsy stations of the Lvov Rail-
road System and along the Odessa System, some grain from last year's bar-
Text still rowing in the etorehoures. Little is being done, especially
to the Southwestern and Odessa Systems, to ,:grantee a supply of clean and
repaired freight care. Repair of scales at weighting points is not being
carried out in many places.
In BTden'iovck, a reading grain-Loading point on the Ordzhonikidze
System, the ministry of Agricultural.Proouremeut and Iugzaaotzerno (Southern
Grain Procurement) have. taken no steps to expand the siding facilities to
sane the new grain storehouses built there this year.
Mpehinery for loading and unloading grain has not been provided in a
3wepe n aber of loading points.
Gudok, lo 76, 26 Jun 49
B. P. BeshabeT, riinister of Transportation, bas ordered Srivonoe, head
of the Donets Railroad Ckrug, As-utyunov, read of the Caucasus Railroad Okrug,
and IovsleT, head of the Southwestern Railroad Okrug, to rectify the de-
ft4lanoies disclosed in the report published in G+Tdok for 24 June.
RR*IR OF SIbODiZ h D 8C UL'A -- Qudok, No 75, 24 Jun 49
Repair of railroad sidings in anticipation of the grain harvest has not
been completed o,A the Byazaa` section of tha .Moscow-Pyazap' Railroad 3getem.
In the Iasakovo, Zadabrov'ye, Pronya, and ftelukhovo stations the sidings
are unsuitable for normal passage of trains. In Eh ushohevo and other
stations the use of some dilapidated sidings has been forbidden.
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PRDIORSWA SISTEK REPAIRS FREIGHT CARS -- Gudok, No 74, 22 Jun 49
During 5 months of 1949, the Primorekaya Railroad Syotem has reconditioned
630 freight care, of which 418 were covered> Some of the care were damaged
during the war. The reconditioning work is hindered somewbat.by the failure
of the Par Eastern Railroad Okrug to supply good-quality materials for the work.
The cars will be used to transport wheat from this rear's. harvest, The
it. Nevertheless, the raised nor= is till not being fulfilled. About 1.5 - 2
days are wasted an the round trip to Chelyabinsk, and inefficiency in Chelyabinsk
has .:ausod delays of as much as 13 hours. Far from covering a distance of 500
kilometers per day, locomotives out of s:latoust do not even cover 300 kilometers
The work of electric locomotives operating out of the Ziatoust Depot,
South Ural Railroad System, is unsatisfactory. The summer schedule raised the
turnaround norm 50 percent on the Zlatouet?Cholyabinek section. Locomotives
are forced to wait at the turnaround point just because the schedule calls for
PRZIGHTWORMS APPAL FOR HELP -- Gudok, So 74, 22 Jun 49
meat of the Moscow Institute of Transport Engineers, workers of the Gor'kiy.
E`vight Station have appealed for help in working out a basic technological
process for handling freight in the station. The Gor'kiy Station serves more
that 300 industrial enterprises ead is a transshipment point between the railroad
and river transport. Average delay in the station is now 11.5 hours above the
prewar figure, while working conditions have remained the same and the personnel
if anything are more experienced. The workers complain that the industrial
enterprises served by the station, knowing of the lack of system, take advantage
of the laxity and add to the poor showing of the station by failing to load, un-
load, and return freight cars on schedule.
A letter to Gudok states that the dual control on traneportratlor. of terish-
able freight car'.,ee needless confusion and vast. in the handling of per+sheables.
The division of responsibility between the freight and ooasmeroial departm'ts
results in no control at all. In the second half of February four freight cars
of appleo left Alms. Atm. for Moscow. They spent 8 days on the Turkesten-Siberian
System, 4 days on the Tashkent System, 10 days on tee Orenburei 8ysten, and 7 days
on the aaybyabev System. The Main lrreight Administration lost eight of the
applet, and whet they arrived at Moscow, about half were spoiled. Fresh fish
sent from Irkutsk on 24 March arrived in Moscow on 5 NMy.
More attention should bs paid to refrigerator oars. Work done by the
Tambov Railroad Car 8epair Plant, in particular, is unaaticfact.ory.
KWH AN SECTOR CALUCD BOT3'LZRICE -- Gudok, No 74, 22 Jun 49
Looostctivs vorkerk of the Petropavlovsk Depot complain that the lurgan
section of the South Ural Railroad System hladers their operations. During :gyp,
there were 1,983 instances in which a train was held up at signal lights on the
section, causing a total delay of 981 hours, and 1,829 instances of delay at
Intermediate station., causing a total delay of 6,126 hours. The situation did
not Improve in June. A..t'hougb the Petropavlovsk Depot has 17 locomotives above
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the norm, the average daily distance traveled was 40 - 50 percent below the
horn, and turntirouad Linewae eicwe? by 6 huura;
TUI&SIB RhILBO1D.SB(IS SLUMP -- Gudok, No 76, 26 Jun 49
The Turkestan-Siberian Railroad System is operating now much worse than.
it did during the winter months. The schedule for train movements is being
oompl,..ed only 30 - 40 percent, turnaround time of care has.irisen by more than
2 d&,,s, and spoilage has risen considerably.
One of the reasons for this lack of efficiency is the absence of direction
in trade-union work.
RAILROAD LJADHQS CAubJ BRIALAGY -- Sovetskaya Sibir', No 97, 18 May 49
A substantial amount of the goods shipped to the Novosibirsk Electric
Motor Plant by railroad has been found unsuitable for use in production, due
to damage in transport. Breakage of. glass and porcelain goods is a usual
occurrence, even though the articles have been packed and marked with care,
The plant has been losing large sums from such breakage. The fault lies with
the undisciplined and carelese loaders at the starting and the terminal
railroad statlonn.
Track repair work is going moll in the Balakirevo- Aleksandrov se6tion
of the Yaroslavl' Railroad System. As of 10 June, 2 kilometers of track had
been repaired above plan. The repair epetlons are completely mechanised.
Raising track, replacement of rt.lie, and ballasting are carried on simultaneously.
Gudok, no 't6, 26 Jun 49
Complete radiorication of the main line of the Yaroslavl' Railroad Syetcm
was oepletsd 26 June.
Ysogiaeers ac t1Ee Vladimir Depot of the Gor'kiy Railroad System have set
an all-Union raccrd for dilly locomotive runs. Recently a locomotive ran 818
kilomsters in a 24-hour period. lee' W7, an engineer at the same depot had
operatad his locomotive over 760 kilometers in a 24-hour period.
A locomotive of the Alma-Ata Station recently coa+pleted a 1,123,000-kilo-
meter rum without c pdtal or medium repair.
XA2SHALil7G SESTmI TRUVts ZYflCT271 -- Gudok, No 76, 26 Jun 49
Thp Moscow height Station of the Kosoov-Yiev Railroad System has found
its mar balling method, which entails grouping of freight care for forming
Wile tgttins are being broken, effective. On 16 June, one shunting locomotive
of the station, in one shift, fulfilled its norm 131.3 percent, saved 1,111
car-hours, and saved 2,666 rubles, without any delays or losses.
The station uses two locomotives for shunting, one of which is a so-
called freight-shed locomotive.
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GZRGIA ADM SPTCIAL PA IR SMICI -- Zarya Postoka, ho 119, 19 Jun 49
Special freight oars have tsmn net %aide for passengers riding. on flatcars.
Tickets am beparehased on these oars. Such cars have been added to the Batumi-
Mm haradse trains Io.,185/1f36, Batumi-Pot1 trains No 61/62, Batumi-Iutaiei trains
No 83/84, and Poti-Saaatredia trains No 87/88? These cars are provided with the
lascription, "For flatcar passengers."
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