Russian locomotive class IS

Soviet locomotive class ИС

Locomotive ИС20-317, c. 1935

Type and origin Power type Steam Total produced 649

Specifications Configuration 2-8-4 Gauge 1,524 mm (5 ft) Leading dia. 1,050 mm (41.34 in) Driver dia. 1,850 mm (72.83 in) Trailing dia. 1,050 mm (41.34 in) Adhesive weight 88 tonnes Loco weight 133 tonnes Firebox:  • Firegrate area 7.04 m^2 (75.8 sq ft) Boiler pressure 15 kgf/cm^2 (1.47 MPa; 213 psi) Heating surface 295.2 m^2 (3,178 sq ft) Superheater: ​  • Heating area 148.4 m^2 (1,597 sq ft) Cylinders Two, outside Cylinder size 670 mm × 770 mm (26.38 in × 30.31 in)

Performance figures Maximum speed 115 km/h (71 mph) Tractive effort 233.5 kN (52,490 lbf)

Steam locomotive of series IS with streamline casing Woroshilovograds factory, the Soviet steam locomotive-champion with maximum speed of 180 km/h

The Soviet locomotive class IS (Russian: ИС) was a Soviet passenger steam locomotive type. The contract design was prepared in 1929 at the Kolomna factory. The ИС were manufactured between 1932 and 1942. They were named after Joseph Stalin (Russian: Иосиф Сталин).

Overview

The steam locomotive was a 2-8-4. The locomotive used the same cylinders and boilers as the ФД (FD) series locomotives. However the ИС steam locomotive had a different wheel arrangement.

Construction

The first steam locomotive was released from the Kolomna factory on October 4, 1932. In April–December a steam locomotive was tested on the October-, Southern- and Ekaterinenskaya railways.

In 1936 production began at the Voroshilovograd factory. In total, 649 steam locomotives were constructed. Later it was renamed FDP (steam locomotive FD, passenger modification).

Use

These locomotives were used until 1972.

Gallery

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  IS20-1 in 1932

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  IS20-1 in 1932

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  IS20-01 in 1932

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  IS20-08 in 1936

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  Russian locomotive class IS exhibited in Paris in 1937

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  The only preserved IS plinthed IS20-578 in Kiev

See also

• The Museum of the Moscow Railway, at Paveletsky Rail Terminal, Moscow
• Rizhsky Rail Terminal, Home of the Moscow Railway Museum
• Varshavsky Rail Terminal, St.Petersburg, Home of the Central Museum of Railway Transport, Russian Federation
• Finland Station, St.Petersburg
• History of rail transport in Russia

Books

• Главное управление локомотивного хозяйства МПС (1956). Справочник по локомотивам железных дорог СССР (in Russian). Трансжелдориздат.
• Сыромятникова, С.П., ed. (1937). Курс паровозов. Устройство и работа паровозов и техника их ремонта (in Russian). Трансжелдориздат (State Publishing House).

References

External links

• The Moscow Railway Museum at Rizhsky Rail Terminal
• Report on a visit to the Varshavsky Rail Terminal