On the ways of technological progress (1955)

Documentary №39212, 3 parts, duration: 0:29:51
Production: Centrnauchfilm (CNF)
Director:Usoltsev A.
Camera operators:Nikiforov A.

Annotation:

A film about the USSR railways.

Reel №1 On the ways of technological progress

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Passenger freight trains along the way.

Locomotive driver in the cab while driving.

Checking the condition of the track.

Exhibition of Railway Transport.

Exhibits: steam locomotives, diesel locomotives, electric locomotives, passenger coaches, wagons for transportation of various cargoes, track machines, under the operating conditions at work.

Customers visiting the exhibits.

Among them: NK Baybakov, the Hungarian delegation, the German delegation.

Key words

Trains

Locations: Moscow [820]

Objects:

Exhibition of samples of new railway equipment.

Reel №2

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Visitors of the exhibition inspect the locomotive.

Diesel locomotive tanks with a fuel reserve for 800 km of the way.

Internal equipment of the locomotive.

The cab of the locomotive driver.

Full automation of mechanism control is provided.

The locomotive is inspected by the chairman of the State Planning Committee of the USSR N.K. Baibakov.

A 300 hp diesel locomotive and a car with a load capacity of 16.5 tons are intended for the development of virgin lands of Siberia and Kazakhstan.

The Hungarian delegation inspects a gas-generating diesel locomotive.

A cartoon showing the principle of operation of a gas generator locomotive.

Refueling the locomotive with coal and water.

The driver in the cab of the locomotive.

The delegation of the GDR inspects a gas turbine truck.

The interior of a compartment passenger car.

The restaurant car.

The climate control system in the passenger car.

Compartment control cars.

Ventilation holes in the car.

Children in the carriage are playing checkers.

Suburban trains built by the Riga Car Building Plant.

Train refrigerator.

Blooming apple trees.

The engine room is placed in the middle of the train.

A carriage for the train staff.

A special pump drives calcium chloride brine cooled by a refrigerating machine through pipes, feeding it into the batteries of the car.

The carriage room is cooled to minus 12 degrees.

The equipment of the car.

Individual carriages that can be connected to any train.

The equipment of such a car.

Ordinary flying cars with a ceiling cooling system.

Hatches for loading ice.

Bull.

A cattle carriage.

The equipment of the car.

Photos showing the transportation of various animals in such wagons.

The book of reviews at the exhibition.

A car for transporting fish.

The equipment of the car.

Fish swims in the tank of the car.

Unloading of the car.

Sale of imported fish to the population.

Tank cars.

Universal wagon.

Such a car can be closed and open, which allows you to reduce empty runs.

A conveyor for transporting heavy loads for lines and factories.

Key words

Diesel locomotive.
Passenger car.
Refrigerators.
Freight cars.

Locations: Moscow [820]

Objects:

Exhibition of samples of new railway equipment.

Reel №3

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Types of containers for cargo transportation.

Forklift truck up to 5 tons.

The forklift removes the container from the car.

A small loader for loading small cargo into a wagon.

Reinforced concrete sleepers.

Scheme of string-concrete sleepers.

Double-hinged reinforced concrete sleeper with one rod.

A new method of attaching a split-type rail.

Track power tools for track repair.

All these tools are powered by light mobile power plants.

Ultrasonic rail flaw detector.

A cartoon showing the principle of operation of such a flaw detector.

Magnetic flaw detector.

A cartoon showing the principle of operation of such a flaw detector.

A special flaw detector car.

The equipment of the car.

The hardware car.

The signals from the magnets scanning the rails are transmitted to the oscilloscope of the recording device and recorded on film.

The developed tape is deciphered.

A defect has been detected.

A piece of urgently seized rail.

Powerful snowplows.

Rotary snowplow.

Travel plow.

Demonstration of the operation of such a machine.

Map of railway tracks of the USSR.

It is planned to build about 2000 km of railways.

Platforms for the construction of railways.

The new track-laying machine makes the laying of tracks in whole links of 25 meters.

A powerful electric ballast with magnets of 30 tons produces lifting and ballasting of the track.

Alternating frames with exhibits and visitors of the exhibition.

The book of reviews.

Key words

Containers.
Forklift trucks.
Flaw detectors.
Snowplows.
Tracklayers.

Locations: Moscow [820]

Objects:

Exhibition of samples of new railway equipment.

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