SV: [WarInEur] 1st winter weather effects

[sgm]

As has been rightly said,
the infrastructure simply collapsed.

With Locomotives, water in tenders freezes, and boiler levels cannot be 
maintained, you need steam heating in the tender to prevent this. Not 
provided, as normally in moderate climates hot feedwater won't work in 
live steam injectors, so you need to replace these with mechanical feed 
pumps. Much less efficient so not normally part of the loco's equipment 
All major engineering shop mods.

But...locos can be stabled in the warm, and  boilers can be kept in steam.

What it more of a logistical nightmare, are  water towers and troughs. 
These don't have any protection, and the result is no lineside resupply 
in sub zero temperatures. Providing heating for water towers etc etc, 
and heat for switch blades frozen by the wrong grade of grease are other 
tractible problems. Frozen and resulting damaged pipework and boiler 
tubes  can put locos out for months as the backlog of damage rapidly 
overwhelms the workshops, undermanned and without the right equipment.

Note the insidious knock on effect...no bulk carriage of fuel for M/T 
and Industry, so trucks and the like are on very short rations, and 
tanks have to be moved with care fuel being a precious commodity..


-|steve|-



johanarve2002 at yahoo.se wrote:
> One problem was that the railroad engines the Germans
> used broke down from the cold. Another was that the
> motor vehicles the German army used, required
> extensive preparation (heating) to start. A third was
> massive dying among the horses had brought with them
> on the campaing. A fourth was that the logistical
> apparatus was not under military discipline (read
> Reichbahn) and "liberated" warm clothing, fuel and
> food for its own use. A fifth effect was that German
> lubricating oil froze. A sixth that the Germans didn't
> know how to protect themselves from the cold (remedied
> in the next winter through instructions by the Finns).
>
> A monumental cockup by the "supermen".
>
> --- Bruce Denney <jbdenney at swbell.net> skrev:
>   
>> I know the other first winter effect was not being
>> prepared for the harsh
>> winter weather. I have to wonder how much of a real
>> effect this has on an
>> operational level.
>>
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