TO BUILD COAL-DUST-FIRED LOCOMOTIVES; RR CAR PLANT UPS OUTPUT

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• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: August 30, 2011
• Sequence Number: 84
• Publication Date: June 14, 1950
• Content Type: REPORT

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CENTRAL INT.IGENCE AGENCY REPORT
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COUNTRY Soviet Zone Germany
SUBJECT Transportation - Rail
HOW
PUBLISHED Daily newspapers
WHERE
PUBLISHED Berlin; Weimar; Chemnitz
DATE
PUBLISHED 3 - 10 May 1950
LANGUAGE German
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THIS IS UNEVALUATED INFORMATION
TO BUILD COAL-DUST-FIRED LOCOMOTIVES;
RR CAR PLANT UPS OUTPUT
70 PLANNED FOR 1950 -- Landes-Zeitung, No 103, 4 May 50
According to Railroad Counsel Wendler (fnu), operation of coal-dust-fired
locomotives has proved economical. It requires only 45 minutes of firing to
ready such locomotives for operation, compared with 4-6 hours for briquette-
fired locomotives. Besid'3, the use of coal dust lowers coal consumption. In
round-trip test runs between Halle and Sangghausen, with an 850-ton train,
one locomotive ccuna' ned 6.5 tons of coal duet while the other required 8 tons
of briquettes. Whereas the coal-dust-operated.locomotives in use at present
carry a supply of 15-16 tons, a coal-dust tender to be hooked onto the locomo-
tive will increase the supply carried to 40'tons, sufficient for a run five
to six times the distance from Berlin to Hamburg.
Seventy coal-dust-fired locomotives will be built in 1950.
PLANT LOWERS PRODUCTION COSTS -- Landes-Zeitung, No 103, 4 May 50
The people-owned Dessau Railroad Car Factory has fulfilled its quota under
the Two-Year Plan. Output in 1949 was 216 percent higher than in 1947 and four
times as high as in 1936. Production costs have been reduced by 47.6 percent
since 1948.
STEPS UP FREIGHT CAR REPAIR -- Volksstimme, No 104, 5 May 50
The Chemnitz Railroad Repair Yard has repaired 30,000 freight care since
1945. Inasmuch as 25,000 freight cars, 10,000 passenger cars, and 2,000 loco-
motives-had left the repair yard up to 31 March 19.49, this means that 5,000?
freight cars were repaired during the past year. Although this yard originally
handled only passenger cars, 70 percent of the current repairs are on freight
cars.
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CONFIDENttAI.
FREIGHT BELT CIRCLES EAST BERLIN -- Taegiiche Rundschau, No 107, 10 May 50
A freight belt which completely encircles the East Sector of Berlin was
opened to traffic 6 May by Herr Schmidtke (fnu), president of the Berlin Reichs-
bahn Directorate.
The 50 kilometers of track were completed in approximately 7 months. Dur-
ing construction, repairs had to be carried out in 30 places andnumber of
and
st?el constructions were required. The work. was done by 15 private
eight construction trains of the German Reichsbahn.
YOUTHS OPERATE FIRST LONG-DISTANCE RR STATION -- Volksstimme, No 102, 3 May 50
The Dresden-Mitte railroad station, which was turned over to young railroad
workers on 1 May 1950, is the first long-distance station in the German Demo-
cratic Republic to be operated by youths. It is staffed by 43 Youths up to 25
years of age. Ninety long-distance trains pass through this station A^:'Ly.
YUU.ifS OPERATE LEIPZIG RR STATION -- Taegliche Rundschau, No 107, 10 May 50
The Wiederitzs(h railroad station in Leipzig started operations on 1 May
em-
as the first youth 1 station of the pall members of Directorate.
ployees, averaging 9 years age are
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