REPAIR OF LOCOMOTIVES AND TANK CARS IN EAST GERMANY

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• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80-00810A001500780005-5
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• Document Creation Date: December 15, 2016
• Document Release Date: December 10, 2003
• Sequence Number: 5
• Publication Date: June 29, 1953
• Content Type: REPORT

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T $ DOCO8HIITCOITAINSINFORGIATION AFFECTING THE HATIONNA1. DGFSHSI
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CENTRAL I Vi i LLIumn REPORT
INFORMATION REPORT CD NO.
Bast Gernany
Repair of Locomotives and Tank Cars
in En st Germany
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DATE DISTR, 29 June 1953
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THIS IS UNEVALUATED INFORMATION
The rerair ;hors at .icdc rsachs.rerfen are to be closed clown .one: vacated
?+ 3 .' r 1953 boc-ic.c t as h! are ton n..
c,,r *hu Wryest German
2., The re eT-air shol?s at Jena are coin,- very unreliable work.. Thu hop'are
over-f lled with cars neudin.- rear air- -:very, day the cars rsvatiable, to
the 2eichsbahn for use are dccre:;aua-nt?,~, -0-t of al.l there i5 a lack of
wheel sets, Qcstra valves, Loller elate nand c -- ecially of aluminuk:i
ate urin7 the lass three aonthc nur crous arrests have seem made in
the Jena roTT-air shors :_)eciusc of all..-od sabota,7e.
3. Various ositions =+n the Central Car f+cl1i.nistration have been actually
ive;n to two roorle for the urrose of reciprocal control., ;.ix lca'int,
c zlo7ees ~.-avc notice as of 31 .arch 19.3 Decnuse they ;'crc ofrnid of
Lein,- arrested because of the "'filly incrca.sin;- inadef)uacj-CE 4hc:.in,' iur
in the :tcichsbahna The coa;um::rcial director of the Roiohsbahn Generaldirektion
(fnu) .lctz, has been com'lctcly neutralized (Kaltgestellt) ~-ince about
t~~e ::.ic:cl2c of ~.arch0 The ; ocition is actually bcin,' filled bf (fns:)
tciner, the son-in-law of ..ilhelrt 'iec':.
l:a tccordinc to infor^iation of the Technical Zection of the Central Car
.&-iinistration, all repair sho -c are crowded with cars nc.ec ing repair;
they do not even have the :race to put cars on sidings i,ecause of the
lac': of steel rails, in Jena steel bars are being cemented into concrete
to mace p:.^ovisional rails co that dama~:ed cars can be raaoved from the rail
lines. 7.1c rain shortage or the repair of tan:: cars is ";estra valves -
-lrich _a t, ^er any is manufacturing'* in violation of ratent rights which
arc hold in east Cer;:any, Another considerable bottleneck i ? the lack
of lead ; nd rubber linin Is for sulphuric and hyc rochloric acid cars
Therefore, there is a continsing decrease in usable cars of this cateror ..
Aluminum of the required rurity of 99,0 Per cent is also in short .ul-ply,
r.t the present time.lbout 3,500 pairs of wheel Vets are needed for tank
cars. On many otherwise usable cars the wheel flanges have worn so thin
and give so much -,la to the wheels that derailments occur very frequently.
S, ring stool is also badly needed. Cars which te;rrorarily are unrerair<
able because of some material shortage are not expected to be rut back
into service for months because of these shortat os. In all the larger
stations and yards these cars have been rut on sidings and are doterior-
atinC,. 11ccordi.ng to infor-7ation from the Technical Section., the number
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of care which cannot be repaired at the presont time has increased
since Ja uary by 289 cars, and the number is continually growing,
From October 1952 to 1 March 1953, a total of 515 tank cars were
dismantled. A=W pate from these cars were used for repairing old
cans,
According to information from the Operations Section of the Central
Car 'Steering Office,, the planning for transport of goods is currently
considerably hindered by the long running time through Poland and the
increasing number of damaged cars. If these difficulties continue to increase
at the same rates tank car traffic will be practically at a stand-still
by the end. of 1953. Tank cars returning to Frankfurt/Oder from
Poland arrive shot full of holes? A court made in February showed
the following number so damaged:
lst weok
2nd week
3:rd week
14th week
12 earn
46 cars
59 care
21 cars
Two tank car trains with a total of 76 cars, carrying aviation gasoline
to be transported to Brest-Litovsk, left in early January 1953 and have
not yet returned, It is thought that they might have been destroyed,,
6v The coal dust cars which are used for the transportation of coal dust
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repair shops.
for coal dust locomotives (Kohlenstaublokomotivere) and for heating
generators for electricity plants and turbine stations of the. mineral
oil industry are also under the direction of the Central Car Steering
Office, According to the latest count,, the Reichebahn possesses 522
of these special cars,. Through improper handling of the care and, above
all, because of the shortages of replacement material,, there are at
present only 1911 of these in service. All the other care are in need
of repair, As a result, moray electricity plants are facia difficult
problems,, The Reichsbahn possessed a total of 114 coal dust locomotives
(rebuilt from other engines); the number of these engines available for
service has sunk to 4. The initiator of the coal dust idea was celebrated
in East Germany at the time as an important inventor,
sinister f'cr Traffic Prof, Tans Reingruher and State Secretary Ernst
Wollweber are presently ex* mining the difficulties affecting tank car
traffic. The SSD is also currently investigating the situation in the
Corm~ent: i'ossibly Richard Stainer, Deputy Getters]. Director,
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