On Steel Highways No 258

1st plot. ROBOTS - REPAIRS. Locomotives in the shop of the Moscow Locomotive Repair Plant. Machine shop view. Workers on machine tools make parts for the restoration of worn out locomotive units. A worker at work on a machine tool with numerical control. Automatic processing of a part on a machine. Samples of parts processed on a CNC machine. An engineer draws behind a drawing board in a design bureau. A group of engineers oversees the work of industrial robots. A working model of one of the mechanized sections of the Krasny Put plant. 2nd plot. ENGINEERING CALCULATION. Railway cars stand on the tracks. On the building there is a sign with the inscription: "Administration of the South Ural Order of the October Revolution of the Railway". A group of engineers at work. Animation illustrating wagons with different loading schemes. Loading of wagons in the shop of the Chelyabinsk Pipe-Rolling Plant according to a new compacted scheme. Workers are tying pipes in a carriage. Engineers review the drawings. Loading of autotractor trailers on railway platforms according to a new compacted scheme. Freight train on the way. Loading of 3 tractors (instead of 2) in the workshop of the Zlatoust tractor plant. Freight trains with compacted loading in transit. 3rd plot. SECOND LIFE OF AUTOCHITCHES. Passengers in a compartment of a passenger train. Type of automatic coupling between cars. A worker in a workshop checks the condition of the coupler. The worker, with the help of an electrode, fuses metal onto the worn working surface of the automatic coupler. Treatment of a worn-out coupler by air-arc metallization. Demonstration of the processing of a worn-out surface by a method developed by employees of the All-Union Correspondence Institute of Transport Engineers. During this treatment, molten high-strength metal is transferred from the outside of the hitch to its worn surface. 3rd plot. HEALTH COMPLEX. Cargo railway station Rostov-on-Don. Loading and unloading operations at the station. Crane operator at work. Unloading bags from the wagon. Station employees at work on a computer. The building of the Railway Workers' Health Complex. Visitors swim in the pool, take a steam bath, play table tennis, billiards, volleyball. Visitors to the dispensary physiotherapy room. Women's group for aerobics lesson.

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A. Gorchukov, N. Zotov, M. Kamionsky, I. Kasatkin