How does track Strug
Special railway machine track Strug was developed for the repair and maintenance of the railroad, including clearing paths of snow and ice. Use of the machine helped to mechanize the hard work and a consistent high quality of their performance.
Given the huge length of Railways and the busy schedule of freight and passenger trains, track planes were widely used from the mid 30-ies of the last century. Their introduction has reduced the cost of maintaining the railway in working condition.
The old narrow gauge Strug
In the period of industrialization plow machine was used not only to repair the embankment, but when laying the second lines, thereby increasing bandwidth of the spans. In the Soviet Union were developed and have been widely produced since 1935 travel planes models SS-1 and SS-1M for broad gauge. For peat skolek in small quantities was made narrow-gauge Strug-machine UPS-1 on the basis of the developed in 1962 VNIITP model oops-0.
Track plough SS-1M
Basic functions
Track Strug busy all year round. In the winter he clears the road of ice and snow, and the rest is used for repair work. The main tasks that effectively performs the track Strug:
- new cutting and cleaning of existing ditches, allowing you to divert rain and melt water from the railroad bed;
- mandrel slopes of the ballast, embankments and excavations;
- when removing the rail-sleeper grid on the adjacent track, flush and dump him contaminated ballast;
- planning of soil for laying of second tracks;
- clearing of snow tunnels and stations.
Features of use
The main design feature of the machine is its large mass and the ability to easily change the geometry of the formed embankment or ditch. Pneumatic or Electromechanical actuators of the working bodies allows to service this equipment a team of two people.
Depending on the depth of cut of soil is the maximum rate of excavation can reach 15 km/h. As a rule, the minimum speed running the first pass on the site, which shows all the hidden obstacles, and the final, to form a smooth surface. The number of passes can reach up to six and is determined on the spot. The maximum departure side of the wing, measured from the axis of the fabric, can achieve a 7.75 meters.
Peak use of this equipment occurred in the thirties and forties of the last century, when increased freight in the latitudinal direction between the East and the West of the country. Electrification of the Railways made their work less effective, as the supports of a contact network are not allowed to use the side wings. However, the front dumps and allow today to use them for punching snow blockages. The snow blockage with a thickness of up to 2 meters track the plane at speeds of 40-80 km/h punches passage width of 5.2 m.
