TRANSPORTATION - RAILROADS

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• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: July 5, 2011
• Sequence Number: 709
• Publication Date: September 27, 1949
• Content Type: REPORT

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PUBLISHED Daily newspapers
INFORMATION FROM
FOREIGN DOCUMENTS OR RADIO BROADCASTS
COUNTRY USSR
WHERE
PUBLISHED USSR
DATE
PUBLISHED 1 Jul - 24 Aug 1949
LANGUAGE Russian
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DATE DIST.,? Sep 1949
NO. OF PAGES
SUPPLEMENT TO
REPORT NO.
GRAIN LOADING L' FFICIEIPP;
NEW COST ACCOUNTING t4 TNOD INTRODOOED
On many railroad systems, grain 11; lying in tie -)pen, and effective measures
for shipping or covering the grain are not being taken. At Bekavo station on the
Southeastern System tens of thousands of tons of high-grade rice are lying in the
open. Grain is put right on the round and is not covered even in brid weather.
At Rossoah' station, the local grain-procuresfaat offtees and the Administration
of Reserves are not cooperating. Workers of the Administration of ti1eserves at
the station of Talovaya have rea-ldreesed 2,000 tour of oats to the Rossosh' grain-
procurament point, where 3,000 tone r4' main era lying in the open. The Ro~~l~eosh'
grain-procurement point has bees. re:ducl:fg its demands for empty freight cafe^-twice
the amount of cars would not b9 svfl1cient to handle the incoming wtvat..
At 3ul'kafichi station on the North Caucasus System large quantities of wheat
are Lying in the open, but there i.' no nhorta3e of freight atw s. The loading is
going slowly and the Sr&'sportera are often idle. Loaded care are delayed for days
on the station tracks. Poles, wire, end lamps have been installed to light the
loading points, 'nt the head of the etatico has failed 22 make errengeeaents with
the milling combine to provide electric power. Ae a result, no grain is being
loaded at night.
An inspection at Nezabr.dino station on the Stalin Railroad System has shown
that storage space has not been prepared for the new harvest. Sons space has not
been repaired, and other still contains Wain from the 1911E harvest. As a result,
grain is being left in the open.
At Dolzhenekaya etation an the North Donets System more than 1,000 tons
have been put in the open. The station lacks freiit care,. Fowl free tool-rais-
ing farms in tie vicinity of the etatiaa are fattening themselves on the state's
At Topki station in Siberia rotten rails on sidings are causing alarm.
Tare is an insufficient quantity of car stops, and the ends of planks are being
used instead. However, the supply of cars in the station is ample, and the grain
loading is progress'ng well.
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CLASSIFICATION MR-2 CRET
CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGEN
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bar?" u system, grain ghipping from the sta-
tions of Blagodatn yn [not~listedyin 1948 or 1949 timetables; possibly identical
with Blagodarnoye_j, Labinskaya, Kuehchevka, and Izobi.l'naya, as well as others,
During the first 12 days of August grain cerloadingo on the USSR railroad
network as a whole were above the level Betty the state plan. The Yinnitsa,
Kishinev, Krn el', Southern, Stalin, Azerba-vdzhan, Transcaucasus, Stalingrad,
Turkestan-Siberian, and all the syet-i-, of thA Western Olanig are meeting
thb plan and requests from grain-pL;ocuaement points for freight. _cars.
The Odessa, South Donets, Southwestern, North Caucasus, and Southeastern systems
arr meeting the plan for loading but are not supplying Weight care at the nec-
essary rate, with the result that grain is piling up in etorehonn ,,. On 4
Gudok, Nc 97, 14 Aug 49
the plan. The meeting sy4teme of pim Donate and Southwestern okruge are ra not t meeting the
plan for long-distance shipping of grain.
Izobil'naya, Rasehevatk-, Blagodarnoye, Labinskaya, Yeyek, Steroninekaya, Stepneya,
and other stations grain h'te been "drying" for weeks in the open, even during bad
weather. An inspection on 14 August showed that in almost all stations of the
Kraencder section grain was lying in the open; disorder in loading and handling
grain trains on the section is great.
The great demand in the stations for freight care is not being satisfied,
while at the same time the supply of empty freight care on the system is con-
siderab]y above the noom. Utilization of rolling stock is poor. On the Stavropol'
section, the freight car pool is July was alrac3t 100 percent above the norm. How-
ever, freight-car turnaround time eaa much above the norm.
Until recently the head of the North Caucasus Railroad System asserted that
no grain was lying in the open along the tracks of the system Howover in th
Gudok, No 99, 19 Aug 49
CAS D1LIA. IN IT :' L.TIONS GFXAT -- Gudok, No 98, 17 Aug 49
Delay of freight cars in freight stations was one cif the main reas