1. TANK CAR DISTRIBUTION OF THE EAST GERMAN RAILROADS 2. TABULATION OF RAILROAD TANK CARS

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• Sequence Number: 7
• Publication Date: February 2, 1954
• Content Type: REPORT

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3. Tabulation of railroad tank cars:
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Numbers Available
0
2,519
1
3,831
Ila
2,145
lIb
750
IIc
28
lId
30
IIIa
930
ITIb
34
IIIc
14
Me
:323
IIIf
223
Iva
310
IVb
1.9
Iva
141
IVd
14
Total
17,838
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Remarks
These cars are freely available for
gasoline shipments. They are of standard
type, without heating coil, bottom
dischargers. 3
Of the same type as 0, hired out for the
transportation of oils and chemical
products.
Bottom dischargers, fitted with single
hairpin heating coil.
Same as Ila, but fitted with a heating
coil having up to five windings.
Same as Ila, fitted with a system of
heating coils having up to 16 windings.
Same as Ila, fitted with heating coil,,
polished walls.
Car without bottom discharger, provided
for the transportation acids.
Same as lila, but fitted with heating
tank and heating jacket.
Same as lila, but without heating faci-
lities, tank of alloyed steel.
Car provided for the transportation of
corroding acids, fitted with a steel
tank, having an inner lining of rubber,
fireclay stones.
Carboy type, 10 to 12 carboys per car.
Cars fitted with aluminum tanks.
Cars fitted with tank for the trans-
portation of coal dust. 4
Pressure chamber cars for the trans-
portation of propane and butane.
Pressure chamber cars fitted for the
transportation of liquid chlorine.
Pressure chamber care fitted for the
transportation of liquid ox7 en.
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Type-0 cars are used for the transportation of white products (gasoline)
and employed by the KIEL. Cars of type I? Ile. through Iid, Ma thro,.gh
Ilif and Na through IVd are used for the shipment of "black" products
and hired out to various chemical firms.
4. Between 29,000 and 36,000 railroad tank cars were loaded every month;
the average load capacity of a tank car was 16.5 ions. Of the products
carried by railroad tank cars, 32 percent were tar and tar oils, 26 percent
liquid fuels su-h as gasoline, Diesel oil and petroleum, 24 percent chemicals
such as acids and lyes, and 18 percent food stuffs and miscellaneous products
such as vegetable oil, alcohol etc.
5. The physical status of railroad tank cars was rather unsatisfactory because
most of the equipment was over-age. There was a critical shortage of
replacement parts,particularly parts required for underframes. Other steel
accessories such as buffers, draw springs, journal bearings, bushings and
TIP-26 girders were also in short supply. The tanks of the cars suffer from
excessive corrosion because the protective paints applied on tanks are of
poor quality and there is a shortage of sand blast apparatus. An average of
10 percent of the total park of `afroad tank cars is damaged at any given
time; approximately 250 tank cars are earmarked f *r deactivation.6 A total
of 25 type-Illb and 20 type4Va tank cars was scheduled to be manufactured
at the Loma Plant in Niesky in 1953.7
6.
German in stry of Railroads :
leading personnel at the Fast 25X1
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a. Roman Chwalek hinister of Railroads.
b. Robert M nza:L. Deputy Minister of Railroads for Political Affairs.
C. &,wi Kraaer#. Deputy Minister of Railroads for T .ffic and Onneration
d. HsiMich Lindemann, Deputy Minister for Railroad Installation and allroad
Repair Shops.
e, shard Stainer,, Deputy Railroad Minister in Charge of organization and
Material Supply.
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Type-O cars are used for the transportation of white products (gc ;,:line)
and employed by the KWL. Cars of type I, Ila through Iid, Ma thro..gh
IIIf and ZVa through IVd are used for the shipment of "blacks" products
and hired. out to various chemical firms.
4. Between 291000 and 36$.-.00 railroad tank card were loaded every raonththe average load capacity of a tank car was 16.5 tons. Of the products
carried by rail-road tarok cars, 32 percent were tar and tar oils, 26 percent
liquid fuels su ?h as gasoline, Diesel oil and petroleum, 2la. per ,-ant cher::icals
such as acids and !yes, and 18 percent food stuffs and ii.iscella oeous products
such as vegetable oil, alcohol etc,
5. The physical status of railroad tank cars was rather unsatisfactory because
most of the equipment was over-age.. There was a critical shortage of
replacement parts ,, par ticulariy parts required for underframes. Other steel
accessories such as buffers, draw springs, journal bearings, bushings and
NT-26 girders were also in short supply. The tanks of the cars suffer from
excessive: corrosion because the protective paints ar;plied on tanks are of
poor quality and the-re is a shcrtaf;e of sand blast apparatus. An average of
10 percent of the total parts of railroad tank cars is damaged a.
any Toren
timie; approximately 250 tank cars are earmarked for deactivation.6 A total.
of 25 type-IM and 20 type-lIla tank cars was scheduled to be msnufactaared
at the Lowa Plant in Aiesky in 1953.7
.roan finis ry of t iroadts:
Roman Chvalek, Minister of Rail rnnr1g
Robert Nona
,Deputy P4ir:iter of Railroads for Political Aff'ira_
C. Erwin Kramer;. Depu,ey Minister of Railroads for Traffic and Opez-ati
d. }}eirrich Fla er itsrssrz. Deputy Minister for Railroad
e. ; ,oh d St Etueia s I eputy Rei
1x3" erial Supply.
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lead.1ng personnel at the East
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Corr~nent. For organizational chart of the K dL, see Annex. The 25X1
railroad tank car distribution point was established in the summer of 1950.
It centrally controls the employment of all railroad tank czrs on the basis
of economic requirements. The KWI which was
previously subordinate to the traleo Wat:anamtbe e an independent railroad
agency on 1 September 1953. 25X1
2. C?rmi nt i The railroad tank czar repair shop at Niedersachswerfen was 25X1
made an RAW specialized in tho repair of railroad. tank cars on 23 July 1953.
Detailed information on the repair shop in Jena
was transmitted previously. 25X1
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2,631 type-0 cars was available in late Juiv- 1952. asiona
more than 3,000 such cars were registered. Since 25X1
occasionally-:.' ears carried in the category of equipment used for the trans-
portation of white products are transferred to the category of cars used for
the transportation of black products and vice versa the recorded numbers of
tank cars fluctuate.
sa> r ent6 1.O~107 cars fitted for t
transportation of black products were available on 31 Narch 1952. the
According to the present report4pnly 9,319 such
6. I~.__m~,Qommen . According to previous information, the total number of tan.?
cars available fox the transportation of white products included 220 to 250
damaged cars. This is about 10 percent of the total.
ont. According to
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the 1954 Economic P1an&25 tank cars, 30 cars
fitted for the transportation of coal dust and 50 carboy type cars were
scheduled to be r~.anufaotured in 1954. ertinent
information on the number of cars to be manufactured in 1953 is not available.
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Comment-. These cars were assigned to the KW L on 1 August 1.952.
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