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because of the difficulties of the water supply
TABLE I
and the poor quality of immediately available
PERCENTILE RELATIONSHIP OF
coal. Possibly from Prokhladnaya south and
RAILROAD FUEL CONSUMPTION
east in the Turkmen, Uzbek, Kazakh, Tad-
Year
zhik, and Kirgiz republics south of the 48th
1913
1933
1940
1943
parallel are the other areas in which oil-burn-
Fuel
%
%
%
%
ing rail traction is employed.
Coal
84.6
64.5
In conformity with the Soviet practice of
44
74
Lignite
6.3
17.2
holding to a minimum the quantity of petro-
Oil
38
24
8.1
6.8
leum consumed on the railroads, it seems that
Wood
18
2
1.0
11.5
the modern type of locomotive, notably the
JS passenger locomotive and the FD freight
The percentages above total 100 percent for
locomotive have not been designed as oil burn-
each year described and refer to the total ca-
ers, but possibly the Consolidation lend-lease
loric fuel consumption on the railroads. In
freight locomotive, the L 4-6-2, passenger loco-
1940, 93.5 percent of the total coal consumed
motive, E 0-10-0 freight, the new Pobeda, and
by all forms of transportation was used by the
the O and Y 0-80 locomotive burn oil when
railroads. The total consumed by transporta-
used in the area indicated above.¹
tion was 49 million tons. Therefore, 45.8
Information on the total number of kilo-
million metric tons of coal were consumed by
meters of track on which oil-burning locomo-
railroads in 1940, and this amounted to 90.9
tives are used is conflicting. However, it ap-
percent of the total amount of fuel consumed
pears that 7,000 kilometers may have been de-
by the railroads. Of this amount, 45.8 million
voted to oil traction in 1940. This would be
metric tons of coal, 42.6 million metric tons
7 percent of the 105,000 kilometers of through
are hard coal types and 3.2 million metric tons
route in operation in that year. About 6 per-
are lignite. Converting the lignite into hard
cent of the 118,000 kilometers of railroad lines
coal, the total hard coal would amount to 44
planned for 1950 may be used by oil-burning
million metric tons. Since 90.9 percent of the
locomotives. Nevertheless, the number of kil-
total fuel consumed amounted to 44 million
ometers of track respectively devoted to Diesel
metric tons of hard coal, we derive 48.4 million
and to fuel oil traction is not known, and the
metric tons as the total (100 percent) fuel con-
amount of traffic planned or carried over oil-
sumption in 1940 in terms of hard coal. 8.1
burning routes is not available.
percent of this amounts to 3.92 million metric
Under the circumstances the most desirable
tons of oil expressed in hard coal units. Using
method of determining the quantity of oil
1.3 as a conversion factor from hard coal to
burned by the railroads consists of relating the
oil, a total oil consumption on the railroads
percentile consumption of petroleum products
of 3.01 million metric tons is obtained.
to the percentile consumption of coal and
In 1949, and so far as can be observed for
wood. The following table shows the percent-
1950, the increased traffic production is largely
age relationship in the consumption of the
being effected by the increased production of
various types of fuel:
coal-burning locomotives although there is a
small but growing production of diesel-electric
1
JANIS, 41, Section VII, page 8 and page 16; Table
units. The diesel-electric locomotives are be-
VII-7, page 17; Table VII-8. Handbook on USSR
Railways Volume III, page 5 and ff. USFA-BWR #52
of 14 Nov. 47.
1 Ugol XII, 1940.
2 SID, USSR, Volume II.
Embassy Moscow cable, 31 July 1944; Handbook
3
This, most significantly, is the output independ-
on USSR Railroads. In JIB 3/73 and 3/83, a figure
ently arrived at by JIB, 3/83 of May 49 for the total
of 93 percent for coal, 6 percent for oil, and 1 per-
coal consumption used on the railroads in 1948.
cent for wood consumption "before the war" is used.
This is related to 1940, but may refer to some other
prewar year or even part of a year. Further "93
and employing an average of about 14,000 BTU for
percent coal" is an ambiguous term since the type
coal to 19,000 BTU for oil, a ration of 1.3 has been
of coal is not known. Separating out the lignite
used as a conversion factor for oil from hard coal.
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