INFORMATION ON LOCOMOTIVE COLUMNS

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80-00810A003600560003-8
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 19, 2016
• Document Release Date: October 5, 2005
• Sequence Number: 3
• Publication Date: March 25, 1954
• Content Type: REPORT

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of sll aolumrt locomotives av~.lable ?5 xere parked as a reserves
I~, a ware in operational uses
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according to a fixed $ahedvl.s~, -
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Ti?iiS is UTdE.bALU~1TED iNFORMATi0~1
to Qa 30 Alovember 19538 a total of ?~ reserve loc motives were availab7.e as a
reserve to locomotive coltu~ns in East Germanyo~ Of these b7 unite ti~ere assigned
-~o the Bw at the marshaling; yard at F'razskkfurt/Odes aru3. 9 to the ~r at Cottbuam
+n det~ilt these locomotives were parked as folloxss
?? In order to keep the reserve loeomatiYes serviees~ble, they are rata:er? for
~eraporary employment, This proasdure is referred to by East t+esr+an ra3.lroad
duthoriti$s as ~Um;aa~el~en~ shifting). ~~sr for instances in the ccna.~`ee_ of
I~ove~aaer 19538 30 reserve lacomotivea mere made operational, trhils ~ locomotive:,
ware parked ae reserve e~uipraant after being preservedo Nn further locomotives
~asre placed. en reserved statue in 2~ovembers bacaus+s heave trafa'ic made it
i~ose+ible to withdrax additional locarnot~.ves frota operatir~uo3
.i~i.~htit~g faci:l~,ti9s far the parkix~ sites of reserve loitivas in Rz~edx~its and
~erkvitz ~rero comp3etede Work oz the installation~of 'light~.ng faail~,ti.es Mss
started :- n hseskow. The sidi~,g available for reserve laco~motivsa in I~oeeknitx is
being lengthenlado
E>st Ger~ariy
~nformr~t.on on Locomotive Calms
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