MISCELLANEOUS RAILROAD INFORMATION

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80-00810A003000470010-6
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• Document Creation Date: December 21, 2016
• Document Release Date: March 5, 2009
• Sequence Number: 10
• Publication Date: December 16, 1953
• Content Type: REPORT

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CLASSIFICATION SECRET/CUNTROL - U.S. OFFICI~?T OIM
CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY REPORT
1FRTI REPORT CD NO..
COUNTRY East Germany
SUBJECT Miss.a lla a Railroad Info` tier
PLACE
ACQUIRED
DATE OF
INFO,
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18 PRONIDITED DT LAW THN REPRODUCTION OF THIS FOU9 I:: PROI#IEITA'D.
DATE DISTR. 16 December 1953
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SUPPLEMENT TO
REPORT NO.
THIS -IS UN 'EVAL'UATED INFORMAT1O i
t
b& following railer coal
stocks,
expressed in briquette units, were ava a
ble on the days mentioneds
Date in
October 1953
Locomotive Coal
Lard Coal Brow ;Coal
Shop Coal
B
riauettes
12
41,900 tons
36,900 tons
33,, 200 tons
14
40 $x'00 a
26,, 500 Vi
33 p700
16
43,W0
?3QsD
334,00
45,400
34
33 , 700
hard coal stocks available in the Magdeburg 25X1
In September. 1953, a, Cities of gondola cars had to be dispatched to Poland
On 26 tember, the uota ondola cars to be made avai 8b a by the Cottbus
regi l railroad headquartets for hard coal shipments was increased from 790 to
ments soon,
at a delayeq rate. C& I etocks wer*: scheduled to be increased to 15 daysa require-
railroad district.wera..ate for only four dayso Hard *o deliveries arrived
910 units.
A4aj(&-q .ntities of hard coa.1 have been delivered by Poland since l September.
In September, a - carloads of hard coal arrived from Up ,r Sflesi.a'
L
via Horka, Forst a quality o _ imported harcal rather
had been moved to Kerkwits near Guben in mid-September,,, be
cause all trackage in Klinge was needed in connection with the increased coal
traffic through Forst.4
5. Ti l5'brigade locomotives w.ic had hitherto been parked at Klinge near Forst
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:1;''T/t;C)P?'IYC)d tJ~ ~3C~T't ICItT :. or'LY
;., Friar to 22 C toter
troop cars h~_,d teen
e.,sent;3c in F'rcnkfurt/0der-5
:1 Go a-ent, (% .cording to the daily coal consumptior, quota of 21,40() 25X1
tons of triquette units valid for October, coal stocks available on
18 October represented approximately 3.8 days" requir:ents, Coal
.corks available on 10 October vere adequate for four days' requirements,,
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2, L____Corrient The difficulties connected with the conversion of loco- 25X1
notives from trovin coni to hard coal have not yet teen overcome.
Iresent hard coal imports from Poland ana the USSR do not even neet
current requirements, so a formation of coal reserves isru;.ed out for
the tire I-eing,
3 , Coru^:n& The coal traffic reported would anount. to a daily dis- 25X1
ne ofherd
001 t
6
l
o
,
y
patch of 400 cerloads which represent approxt ate
roela cpressect in terms of brov.n coal iriquettes, this quantity does
not even represent half of the daily cocl requirements for locornotivesL
however, inforr:sation on cool traffic through ast Gernan border stations
indicates th:t the following numbers of ce.rloads of coal were daily irnw
ported from Poland:
via Fuestrin 150 to 200
" Guben 200 to 250
" 'Porka 250 to 300
' Forst JOn to 350
goo to ls;l00 carloedsa
It is t.eiieved tht,t 50 to 66 percent of this coal was earmarked for cori .
sumptlon by the Last Garr-an reilroadso
~~ Corrs~ent ~ This inforration refers to the locor:otives of deactivated
Locomotive rolur.n No 9, which had teen rked since ;: 1951, at Klingej,
10 kilometers west of Forst,, Ker}a'Jitz is 25X1
9 1:1Ji.lorr:eters southwest of C;uben on the tubers-Cott us rF road ;line,:
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