FRANKFURT/ODER-BREST RAILROAD LINE

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80-00810A003300600007-2
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 10
• Document Creation Date: December 16, 2016
• Document Release Date: September 11, 2002
• Sequence Number: 7
• Publication Date: January 26, 1954
• Content Type: REPORT

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INFORMATION . REPORT
COUNTRY pest Gernar r/USSR
SUBJECT Frw*nut/Ode Hretat Railroad Line
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~';.as closed for several hours; traffic was resumed later, but a very low
speed limit was enforced:, Polish pilots maintain that the line was blown
up by diver..ants- During early August 1953 a similar incident occurred
near Minsk; Polish pilots maintain that this line was also bloom up?
In both cases the brigades waited until the damages were repaired, so
that no one might see the extent of the devastation.
The avera.,fe traffic from Frankfurt/Oder to Brest and back consists of
15 trains every eight hours. From 13 to 20 August 1 93 the traffic
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decreased significantly - about 10 trains every eight hours. The lords
from Frankfurt/Oder consist of all types of small and heavy industrial
machinesq .' 1 ?t! :;,a 3 cranes, and empty refrigerator cars. The loz:,.d.s
from Brest consist of corn. ores, uranium.Sore, and loaded refrigeration
cars The average tonnage of a train is 1,700 to 15 800 tons rand ~ the number
of axles varies between 104 and 106, There are about ten empty cars leav-
ing Frankfurt/Oder for Brest, and about 600 freight cc rs leave Frankfurt!
Oder for Brest.
3:. The only change in the organization of the brigades is that while earlier
a brigade was composed of it men tone brigade chief included), there are
now twelve men (brigade chief included).: Formerly the brigade would
rest after a tour of duty; now four men Co home and are repl=aced by four
members of another brig,ade; the remaining eigit- must proceed on a new
tour and. wait to go home until back in Frankfurt/Oder,, This system is de-
signed to get the raazimum use from a locomotive. The schedule has also
been rearranged. so that now the trio from Frankfurt/Oder tc Brest is
done in one and one half days,while formerly it-was done in four days.
About 15 trains 'a day ler,ve Frankfurt/Oder for Brest and vice versa.
About 5'0 to 60-percent of the trains are ore trains; 30 percent
r=ef-_C-orator trains (this has been true only during July and august 1953):
the remainder censi.sts of machines, industrial and transloi: ding equipment,
and passenger trains There are about five leave trains a month, except
the blue Express ? which circulates daily. The take-up of each train is
_U -follows: locomotive, German personnel car., Russian personnel car,
:n"i he rest of t e bra? d
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