MISCELLANEOUS RAILROAD INFORMATION

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• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80-00810A003300190003-2
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• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 4
• Document Creation Date: December 19, 2016
• Document Release Date: October 13, 2005
• Sequence Number: 3
• Publication Date: March 22, 1954
• Content Type: REPORT

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CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AtAENCY Ill PCI
INFORMATION REPORT'
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East Germany
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Miscellaneous itaoad on
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DATE DISTR . 22 T7erch 1954
PAG
NO. OF ENCLS.
SuSTED BELOW
On 1 November 1953, the fob owl ng de: Iy shop a c n umption quota went into effect:
Coal A112 .tzons (in Tons)
Berlin
400
Greife ald
BC
Schwerin
so
Magdebuf g
190
Balls
450
Erfurt
270
Dresden
Cotthue
450
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the following railroad coal stocks were
available on the days mentioned:
Date in
November
Locomoti
Hard Coal Brow
(in tons)
ve Coal
n Coal B
(in tons
riquettes Shop Coal
) (in briquette units)
9
96,100
16,200
35,200
11
98,800
15,200
35,000
13
102,900
141100
34,SCO
15
104,200
13,400
35,600
17
1].2,100
12,600
36,4;00.
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119,100
12,300
36
600
21
1249700
11,800
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of wooden ties in 1
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2,OC0 cubic meters for bridge beams. An amount of 110,600 cubic meters corresponds
to 1,106,000 units of ties. A total of 720,000 ties will be used for the recondition-
ing of 450 km of tracks, while 328,000 ties wi-1l?be uled for the replacement of ties
on 2C5 km of trackage. This Indicates that 58,000 ties will remain availab3e for now
con, +-ruction projects. This amount of ties is adequate for about 36 Lm c:- trackage... 3
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The total amount of wooden ties was 130.000 cubic meters, of these.,1110,600 cubic
meters will be used for ties on tracks, 17,400 cubic meters on switch Sts and
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Q rn nn. Since 124,700 tons of hard coal represent 187,050 tons of brown
coal briquettes, coal stocks availabl,A ^? 21 November amounted to 198,850 tons
of brown coal briquettes. . According to the daily coal
consumption quota of 22,900 tons of 'riquette units fixed for locomotives
in November coal stocks available on 21 November represented 8.7 days' require-
ments as against 7.l days' requirements on 10 November.
The coal situation, although slightly improving9was still critical. O s"
available represented somewhat more than one third of normal winter stowks.
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of ties planned to be made in 1954 would be adequate only for maintenance work
but would nbt be sufficient for the reconstruction of dismantled tracks,
25X1 4. omment. rox"imately 4,000 wheel tires
25X1 bad arrived from the USSR in Frankfu,t Oder. In 1953,
25X1 the East German railroad administration was short of 20,528 wheel tires.
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4. Katerials arriving from the USSR via Frankfurt/Oder between 231 October and
2 November included:
23 October, wheel sets, 12.40 mm diameter, 114 units;
15.70 mm diameter, 112 units;
18.10 mm diameter, 19 tests; 4
tubings, 37,400 kg.
26 October, rails of type R-5C, .376 sections, V40.4 tons;
27 October, rails, 396 sections, 241 tons;
343 sections, 223.5 tone;
28 October, rails, 60.5 tons;
4C.5 tons;
I. I overnber, rails, 315 sections, 199.8 tons,
2 November, rails, 383 sections, 40.9 tons;
94 sections, 60.6 tons;
1,107..1 tons
the rails mentioned were dispatched to Gubesn except for the 94 sections on
2 November, trhieh were consigned to Koepenick. 5
6. According to a count made on 21 November 1953, freight cars available in East
Germany included 105,959 operational cars and 18,088 non-operations.4 cars. Of
the non-operational cars, 11,372 units were damaged; 5,769 were reserved for
special purposes, including 1,062 units kept at the disposal of the Soviets, and
947 reserve cars
stallation will lose the character of an independent agency.
The boundary between RBDs Erfurt and Dresden an the Gera-Goessiitz rail-
road line will be shifted from railroad km marker 1.750 to km marker 4.700
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bQ, Effective I January 1954, the Magdeburg-Bu,kau railroad repair shop will
become a depot of the Dessau railroad repair shop. The MagdebbrgBucka.u in-
I.~I s est. As compared with the last reported daily coal consumptlzi quota
fixed for railroad repair shops in October 1953, there was an increase .by 220
toils . locations. This increase is due to seasonal reasons.
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5. onr , bent,. This tabulation is incomplete because
.a 000 tons of rails had been delivered by early November.
Firgu res on sections of rails and their weight indicate
standard that sections'Uhich have a length of 12 to 15 meters were delivered,
c cept on 2 November, when sections 2.or 3 meters long were apparently
supplied.
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25X1 7. qc zen?~. This item of information indicates that the allegedly planned
transfer of ? he Dessau railroad repair shop to the East German aircraft industry
has apparently been cancelled.
25X1 8 .I p=n . On 24 September, the last reported day of stock taking, a total
of 103,97O operational fmIght cars nd 32,05; non-operational freight cars was
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counts of freight cars are due to the at that rolling stock operating outside
Last Germany on the day of count are not recorded.
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