An advertising film about the country's diesel locomotive industry, the wide range of machines produced, their application and purpose.
Model of a steam engine.
Models of a steam locomotive.
An old steam locomotive travels along a gorge.
Railroad tracks.
Cabin of a diesel locomotive.
Oncoming train.
Diesel locomotive.
Diesel engine for a locomotive is transported on a platform.
Chronicle of 1902. Production of diesel engines in Russia.
Chronicle of 1924. The world's first diesel locomotive with electric transmission to the wheels was created in the USSR. A locomotive hauls a train with tanks.
A locomotive hauls a passenger train.
A locomotive driver in the locomotive cab.
Panorama of the ancient Kremlin in Kolomna.
Finished locomotives drive across the territory of the Kolomna Locomotive Plant.
Transportation of diesel engines between workshops.
Workshops of the plant.
Equipment control panel.
A contact welding machine created for the plant by the Paton Welding Institute.
Alternation of frames of technological operations for the production of diesel engines for a locomotive.
Automatic line for the production of holes in parts.
Technological operation of fusing a heat-resistant coating onto an exhaust valve.
Demonstration of diesel engine parts.
Diesel engine assembly.
Scientists in the workshop.
All research work is carried out by the plant jointly with specialized research institutes of diesel locomotive and diesel engine construction.
The institutes test machines and individual units.
Crankshaft testing.
Research equipment.
Machines and parts undergo mandatory quality control at low temperatures, below -60 degrees Celsius.
Testing a rubber-cord coupling of a traction drive in a cold chamber.
The gas turbine supercharging system of a high-speed engine for a tropical climate is being prepared for testing at 60 degrees.
Full-scale tests on a stand provide complete information about the engine.
Panorama of the workshop.
An overhead crane in the workshop carries a finished diesel engine.
Mainline diesel locomotive.
The locomotive was manufactured at the largest locomotive manufacturing plant, the Voroshilovograd Diesel Locomotive Plant.
The plant's designers are working on new developments.
The plant's computer center.
Printout of indicators.
Dialogue between the designer and the machine.
The parts designed by the designer and the computer are already in production.
Diesels, Locomotives, Design, Trials
1902 1924
Moscow region Leningrad
Kolomna Locomotive Building Plant. Voroshilovograd Diesel Locomotive Building Plant.
Workshops of the Voroshilovograd Diesel Locomotive Plant.
Stamping machine.
Press.
Welding line.
All chassis components are processed on special machines from one installation.
This guarantees the accuracy of the blanks.
Installation of the locomotive bogie.
Alternation of frames with different locomotive models.
All locomotives undergo track tests with laboratory cars.
Equipment inside such a laboratory.
The driver in the locomotive cabin.
The operation of the diesel engine, electrical machines, electrical equipment, brakes and other auxiliary equipment is checked.
To improve maneuverability, locomotives are manufactured with two driver's cabins.
Export version of the locomotive.
Shunting locomotive.
They work in quarries, at industrial enterprises, at marshalling yards.
Locomotives with a track width of 750-1067 mm are used in forestry and peat extraction.
Shunting and industrial locomotives are produced with a hydraulic drive on the wheels.
Training of specialists to work on diesel locomotives produced in the USSR. Rotation of personnel with different models of diesel locomotives.
Diesel locomotives, Road tests
Ukraine
Voroshilovograd diesel locomotive building plant.