RAILROADS

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80-00809A000600230551-5
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: July 18, 2011
• Sequence Number: 551
• Publication Date: June 10, 1949
• Content Type: REPORT

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REPORT
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DNFORMAT90N i949
iJATE D18T: !~ Jun 1949
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LATYL-H 88R RAIL Il~'ROVB~l8NT8 -- Gurtiok, No 50, 27 APz' 49
Ths rbstoration of 1,700 kilasrtsrs of railroad track, 56 stations, and 15
derats hoe been completed i.a the Latvian 8811. The pivrvar level of average daily
tsviight hanled~eula of freight oar taraonr?_has;;tiaen eiooNdlld:' last yiar,
"Pyatiletku -- s ~ gads" (31ve-Tear Plan ih_T.our Tsars) railroad^ooL~ntes~vers
oraagsd.~.Today, 140 iocamotivs briesdsa are organised ander'these'ooleniaPia
a]y+dePets. These colonies have rav+edl 3,~5p tom of feel a~ have dslivrf~! to
Sill:$~a~R.P3R,?~ _"~l'a eavatd,in repair asd'ia ass of materials.
Eleotxtr, trains will soon b~ introduced oa Biev suburban railroads. Elec-
trif?cation will began on the Bier-Notovi3.ovka aid Kiev-Darnitas sections.
8l=-oar electric traia~ will run every 5 :niantss. :'he Peurovo Pleu~ has elxeedy
produced tea sash trains, each of which will aerry 900 passengers. The mazimam
speed of as electrio train Se 80 lc?lonetere per hoar. Twenty-nine of these:
trains will operats ?in 1950.
The electrification plan far *.he euhn:>ea transportation sys';a provides
for en increase in the number of train to a total of qJ pairs of trains is
24 hovers. The first electric trains on tte Bisv-Bunxka section w!1.1 stmt to
operate at the eni of this. year.
CHAiIDZHO(T-Et1RGRAD RAILROAD COfiSTRI30TI0h -- Pravda Poetoka, No 84, 29 Apr 49
t'.caetrnction workers on the- Chanizhou-Sungred rai]road line caaploted the
b-month p]an in 4 aunths. ^'he f`xet-quarter p'en Mss fulfiU.ed 175 percent.
Conatr~etior costa bare been loverxt 4.5 percent.
The railroad track hoe been laid tc within, 30 kilometers from the vii]age
of Babekla. The railroad rune 9C kilometers through the Bare E.ffi desert.
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b07Ag0YL DEYfl??P SPEI?8 LUC4,MOTI6E RBPAIR -- Gudok, No 57, 13 gay ~+9
Xa?hing repair of locoa~tivea Sn tho Bologoye Depot. has been epmeded np a
now xrequirea no more than 15 home, instead of the 50 - 64 houxaa Wane?sary a, ydar
The depat has slats installed a now machine far pressing valve ?leovea.
(zolotnikavaya vtulkm) which erneabisa onE man to do in 30 :ainutee ghat used to
take eight men k home to db.
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