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

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CIA-RDP80-00809A000600320084-3
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RIPPUB
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C
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2
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December 22, 2016
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August 30, 2011
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84
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Publication Date: 
June 14, 1950
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REPORT
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Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2011/08/31: CIA-RDP80-00809A000600320084-3 CLASSIFICATION ,0011Q1'IDENTS/1L CENTRAL INT.IGENCE AGENCY REPORT INFORMATION FRO A FOREIGN DOCUMENTS OR RADIO OROADCASTS CD NO. COUNTRY Soviet Zone Germany SUBJECT Transportation - Rail HOW PUBLISHED Daily newspapers WHERE PUBLISHED Berlin; Weimar; Chemnitz DATE PUBLISHED 3 - 10 May 1950 LANGUAGE German orl ml VVIT[C STATTES Whlil i?rxi iuilie Or a Uno110[0 AICCTTaBe 0. 8.C.. rl AND 77. AS 51[0010. 11==10. luwN 00 Tilt 111 OdMTOY 011(1, IT ut IN IPAST 50000+Tllol,1 Or Twli d Ul .0. IITID. is PRO' DATE OF INFORMATION 1950 DATE DIST. 11f Jun 1950 NO. OF PAGES 2 EMENT TO SVPPLCI?IC.1~1 TV REPORT NO. 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. STATE ARMY NSRB FCI DISTRIBUTION II Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2011/08/31: CIA-RDP80-00809A000600320084-3 D(I MAW AIR CLASSIFICATION COON IDrNTIAL Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2011/08/31: CIA-RDP80-00809A000600320084-3 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 nnurenra?IR1 Guar.1 L 1 111. Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2011/08/31: CIA-RDP80-00809A000600320084-3