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On Steel Highways No 248

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Abstract
The newsreel includes the following plots: 1st plot. Five thousandth. The plot tells about the transfer of the 5000th shunting diesel locomotive manufactured in Czechoslovakia to the Moscow / Ilyich locomotive depot. The plot includes the following filming: a diesel locomotive leaves the Ilyich locomotive depot; General view of the meeting at the depot on the occasion of the transfer of the shunting 500 diesel locomotive by the Czech side; speeches of the Minister of Railways N.S. Konarev and the Ambassador of Czechoslovakia to the USSR Miroslav Zavadil, handing over the symbolic key to the locomotive to the driver N. Ivanov; presentation of awards to Soviet and Czechoslovak specialists in the Czechoslovakian representation. 2nd plot. The cargo documents are processed by a computer. The plot tells about the use of computer technology to control cargo transportation: a general view of a sorting railway junction on the Oktyabrskaya railway, the movement of a freight train along the tracks, a type of a dispatcher's railway junction, a dispatcher prepares shipping documents, an operator enters the data of Computer, fills out the cargo document form on the computer, general view of the computer hall in the exhibition center of the October railway, the output of finished documents from the computer. 3rd plot. New diesel locomotive cabin. The plot tells about new equipment that facilitates the working conditions of the locomotive driver: Voroshilovgrad diesel locomotive designers discussing the project of a new mainline locomotive cabin; view of the new cabin of the locomotive, in which the devices of the automated control system for the locomotive are installed; testing of the new cabin: the driver in the cabin of the locomotive, the movement of the locomotive, the experts discuss the test results. 4th plot. On the way to a profession. The plot tells about the experience of vocational guidance in railway schools in Chelyabinsk: a view of the railway station in Chelyabinsk; general view of the exhibits in the museum of the boarding school of the South Ural Railway, schoolchildren at the stand dedicated to A. Gaidar; the pupils of the boarding school are engaged in design in the recreation room; high school students in the lesson get acquainted with the railway profession under the guidance of a railway transport specialist; boarding school pupils at a labor lesson in a sewing workshop; pupils of the boarding school on excursions in the passenger carriage depot, work in student workshops; view of the children's Malo-Uralskaya railway; young railroad workers are driving a passenger train, switching arrows, checking tickets of passengers in carriages; the movement of a children's passenger train on the railroad in the winter forest.
Director
I. Khomutov, V. Toropov, M. Goncharov
Color
B&W
Film ID
34838
Keywords
economic communications
, out-of-school education
, school education
, rail transport
, railway engineering
, landscapes
, czechoslovakia
, cities
, awards
Meterage
239
Number of Parts
1
Operators
A. Klimentiev, Y. Kryuchkov, N. Zotov
Release Date
1986
Sound