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Reddit mentions of The Red Army Handbook 1939-1945
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First of all that is a very, very cool map. Wish I knew more russian but I can read it well enough. I can see that there are more rail lines going East and West, but the primary lines go through Moscow. I understand your point on tank production and Stalingrad. Allow me to brake each point down if you will, and please remember that we're dealing with a "what if" here, so conjecture based on known facts is never truly accurate.
To start with, soviet tank production for 1941 was ~2800 T-34's and 1121 KV-1's. I mention these two as these were the really the only tanks reliable to take on german armor with any kind of chance of parity. For total tanks built and lost, we can refer to The Red Army Handbook by Steve Zaloga. Can't link directly to the book page itself but here's a good break down. Now that's a lot of tanks but doesn't mean much if can't get them into combat. Yes they could be shipped east towards Moscow but with out the rail hubs and switching yards it would have extremely difficult to unload the trains and then send them back west.
But would Moscow have turned out to be another Stalingrad. Personally I don't know but I doubt it. For comparison here are two maps of Moscow and Stalingrad. The River provides a natural barrier in Stalingrad which is virtually straight north and south providing a natural barrier to rally and organize formations behind as well as move reinforcements in from. In Moscow, the river has too many twists and bends to provide the same natural barrier.
In 1941, the soviet air force had been virtually wiped out at the start of Barbarossa and didn't really recover until mid 1942. Soviet air power over Stalingrad helped turn the tide, no such ability would have been available over Moscow. At Stalingrad the German 6th army had over extended itself with lesser quality Italian, Romanian, and Hungarian formations protecting their flanks. The Russians were able to beat these units and then eventually surround the 6th army in the city. In 1941 around Moscow, the very best of German forces were deployed and the flanks would have been much less vulnerable. In the fall of '41 German forces were rolling through Soviet opposition and if not for the decision to trap Soviet armies towards the south instead of pushing forwards to Moscow, allowing the Soviet forces time to catch their breath and reorganize.
Again, this is all conjecture but I believe the German army would have had a better chance to take the city with some effort by the end of the year.