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ABANDONED TRAINS IN THE USSR DEPOT For more than a century, the Likhobory locomotive depot of the Moscow Railway has been leading its history. In the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, the idea of building the Moscow District Railway arose. And there were weighty prerequisites for this: then there was a period of industrial boom, and the influx of goods to the capital led to congestion. To simplify and reduce the cost of transportation, it was decided to lay a ring railway with a large capacity – a double-track one. Likhobory station was considered the main station on the Ring Road for a long time, since cargo was transferred from the Nikolaev (now – Oktyabrskaya) railway through it. The importance of the Likhobory station increased even more in subsequent times. Likhobory station was designed as a central station on the Moscow District Railway, a complex of office buildings from 1902-1907 and residential buildings for employees have been preserved to this day. The only locomotive depot on the Ring Road was also built here. The Likhobory fan-type locomotive depot (designated PM-15) was built in 1902-1907. Architects and engineers used a fan layout of the depot with a turning circle. Along the running track, the locomotive drove onto a turning circle, which began to rotate and stopped in front of an empty stall in the depot building. The depot was built with 12 stalls, a turntable and small workshops. Subsequently, the fan was completed on the right to 17 stalls. In addition to the depot itself, the necessary infrastructure was located on the territory: mechanical workshops, an oil pump, a blacksmith shop, a rest house for locomotive crews, the arrows of the depot were controlled from the tower of the arrow control post. The first locomotives on the Okruzhnaya were steam locomotives of the OV series (the main freight locomotive). By the time they entered service, they had already begun to become obsolete, they were no longer sent to roads and were subsequently transferred only to industrial enterprises for shunting work. Despite this, the OV series remained the main type of Okruzhnaya locomotives for a long time. In the 1930s, the replacement of low-power engines with twice as powerful E-series locomotives began, and after the war, CO locomotives entered the road, they, in turn, were already much more powerful than the E-series, which was transferred to station shunting work. Since 1956, the first diesel locomotives began to arrive at the Okruzhnaya and by 1958 the locomotive fleet was completely replaced by diesel traction. TE2 were the first to appear, then they were gradually replaced by TE3, which worked until the 80s, when their life came to an end. With the advent of diesel locomotives, a workshop for lifting repairs was built in the depot, departments were newly created: diesel engine, truck repair, battery, fuel equipment, compressor repair, a rheostat test stand, tanks for draining and storing fuel. In the mid-80s, TE3 locomotives began to be replaced with new 2M62U, and CHME3 were used for shunting work. At that time, a locomotive maintenance hangar was built opposite the old workshop building. Now the depot serves MOZHD, as well as performs export and shunting work at various stations of the Moscow hub. 138 diesel locomotives of various modifications are assigned to the depot. The depot's locomotives provide not only freight activities on the Small Ring, the directions to Vekovka, Serpukhov and Volokolamsk, but also economic traffic, track work, and ICP activities. The depot has 342 heat train drivers and 100 of their assistants. From 2005 to July 2009, the depot was abolished and was the production site of the Lublin depot ____________________________________________ A playlist with an abandoned - Playlist from Vorkuta - Travel Playlist - Russian doomer playlist - ___________________________________________________________ Music — sonnov ( ) To support with a coin - 2202201596307765 To help make your dream come true - buy a mobile home and film more trips - Our VKontakte - Telegram - #Russia #USSR #abandoned #travel #stalker
