RAILROADS

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• Sequence Number: 710
• Publication Date: September 27, 1949
• Content Type: REPORT

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CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY 8e
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Railroads
Daily newspapers
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23 Jun - 21 Alig 1949
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THIS IS UNEVALUATED INFORMATION
ASIATII RR SYSTEM OPERATE O14S.TISP'.C:T0RILY;
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The summer schedule on the Far Eastern Railroad System provides for an
increase of 4.5 percent in the av.rgge speed, excluding stops, and of 22 kilo-
".oeters iu the average daily ran of locomotives. The system had c7nsideratle
success In meeting the schedule during the first days of its operation. In
the 20 days after it had been put into effect, the average speed, excluding
stops, saga increased 1.5 kilometers an hour; including atc.s, it was increased
0,5 kilometer. The average daily run of locomotives increased 7.4 kilometers,
and. locomotive turnaround time was speeded by 0.13 of an hour. there was con-
siderable imnrovemont is the dispatching 6L trains on schedule, and the average
weight of a train increased by 30 tone,
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These goo;', beginnings, however, vcre not maintained. During My, only
87 percent of trains were 11ispetehed on schedule, and during the first half of
June, the percentage decreased to 82,. Ia a little lase than 3 months, there
were more than 4,000 cases of timin delays and interruptions of the schedule
throughout the system. The basic cause for the "or operation of the system
is the disorganization in many sections.
During the first half of June, the Khabarovsk Division (chief, Zikoyev)
carried out only 66 percent of the schedule for train traffic, and the plan
for dispatchinh empty cars, only 87 percept. The operating park of cars in
the division has been expanded considerably above the norm. The division's
directors have mole efforts to decrease the park by artificial methods, by
delaying incoming trains at transfer, stations. Frenuently, In and Vyazelm-
skays stati.cue have become "dunps" for railroad care waiting for locomotives.
Inefficient dispatching also has been occurring at other divisions. 2edenev,
chief of the systems' traffic service, is lot taking measures to halt train
delays, and the guilty parties are not being held responsible.
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OB1,TXH'YS DEPOT' OUTSTANDING -- Tikhookeanskava Zvezda, No 146, 23 Jun 49
The Oblueblye Locomotive Depot, Jewish Autonamoue Oblast, cook first
place on the Far Eastern Railroad System in the May competition, and on 10
June completed the 6-Month production plan. In 5 month the depot saved
more than one million rubles of state funds. The depotplan?i to haul above
plan 175,000 tons of freight between now and Railroad Workers' Day, 31 July.
It also plane to save 200,000 rubles.
TOMSK SYSTZM NOT M'RSTIH3 SCBNDULES -- Sovetskaya Sibir', He 133, 8 Jul 49
As early as May 1949, the Tomsk Iizilroad System had complied with its
pledge, made in 1948, to achieve the 1950 level of loading in the third quarter
1949. In June, the system net the plan for loading coal, coke, ferrous metals,
and ore, biat the toto.l plan for loading and unloading was not fulfilled. The
plan for timber loading, in particular, wtas not met. One of tho main causes
of this leg is failure to meet the traf''ic schedules. For a long time, only 30
percent of the trains have been meeting the schedules. Train schedules in
the Hovosibirak and Inskoye Divisions, in particular, are not being followed.
The recently c, gat.z.zed drive among locomotive engineers for 500-Irilomater rrne
per dray must be extended more widely throughout the system. Il'in and
Vyebogorodtsev, directors of traffic service, have hindered this drive in
eva,zy ,my possible, and have maintained expanded locomotive parks because of
,.heir fear of oompl.icatione - arising in train work. The politio&l Sivisions
of the system must eradicate this cendeaoy and make the director? aware that
er lficial oxpcasion of the locomotive park yre:entc the development of the
500-kilometer campaign.
On the first few days of July, the Tomsk System failed to meet the plan
for loading grain of the last harvest, thus holding up the release of warehouse
space for new grain deliveries. Month after month, the railroad car service
(chief, Tel'noy) has failed to meet the plan for repair of boxcars to be used
for grain transport.
During tho second 10 days of July. the Turkestan-Siberian Railroad System
completed only 67.4 percent of the goal for freight-car turnaround time and
35.l percent of the plan for handling through trains in transit. These
failures were the result of a lack of orgauizatd on in the work of traffic, car
service; and track workers.
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serious lossee, Su far in 1949 the directors of the system have taken few if
any measures to avoid the. mistakes of 1948.
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WTN'PER PT PARATTONS IAG -- Gudok, No 96, 12 Aug 49
The condition of the track Is ceduse for serious alarm. Track workers
have done little to put the track in good condition, there are many defective
rails, and the point rating on the ",c-th-to-south and east-to-vest routes is
especially high. As of 1 August, )i percent of the your plan for capital re.-
pair of t re ck bad been completed, and one-thir. of the plan for medium repair
had not been completed, although deliveries of rails, ties, and fastenings
from the state have been considerably greater than during 1948. The quualit
of track repair Is faulty in many cases.
Repair of depots and railroad buildings is also unsatisfactory, as is
the program for training locomotive workers for op(.rations under winter con-
ditions.
road System be^,auss the track was poorly protected from snow. Many trains
were stuckdn snowdrifts on the Bor-Chogur, Nike1l-Tau, 13th Orenburg, and
Kuvnndyk sections.
C.tdok, No 99, 19 Aag 49
So for this year, little has been done to,iffiprove conditions for the
caning winter. On 20 July the Ministry of Transportation sent the system more
than 20,000 cubic meters of fence planks end other lumber materials. As of
10 August, only 4.5 kilometers of new fences had been built, as against the
52 kilometers required by the plan. Only 11.2 percent of the plat for ?apital
repair of permanent snow fa;ioee had been ecmpletet, acid only 37 percent of the
plan for medim repair; only 14.5 percent of the plan for assembling new
fences had been completed. On the Ber-Chogur section, capital and medium
repair =at to performed on 23 kilometers of permanent snow, fences and 16 Lilo-
meters must he built. Of the 25,000 new fences required on tie c;acticn, only
4,uuu nave been prepared. On the Nike]. -Tau section, only two of 36 kilomoter^
of permanent fences have received capital repair, only one of 15 kilcm3tiera of
now fences has boar. built, anA only P,000 out of 34,000 new sr. w fences have
been set up.
.SHIM DSPCIP REPORTS SUCCESSES -- Gudok, No 98, 17 Aug 49
During 1949 the :shim Depot has handled about 3,000 heavy trains and
has hauled iL them more than one ml l 1 oL tons of freight cbove the norm. The
summer-schedule Norm for average speed excluding stops has been exceeded by
2 - 3 kilcmyetern per hour.
The Ministry of Transportation has given the depot permission to operate
on the euemer schedule during the winter.
Fifty seetioae of the Ashkhabad Railroad System hare received certificates
of good condition, and 4( sections are striving to put their track in good con-
dition before winter.
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in the, 14oekvoago1'" Coal QiFAblue was out an average of 6, nanatea, and'dur1j
COAL COMBI113s CUTS RR CAR D MAT -- Mooko ekiy Bo1'shovik, No 171, 22 Jul 49
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