SOVIET RAIL SHIPMENTS

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• Document Creation Date: December 19, 2016
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E-LRSSIFIQATION,
COUNTRY cast Germany REPORT
n'riet Rail Uhioments
EVALUATION P1 AQE OBTAINED
DATE OF CONT
SATE OBTAINED
DATE PREPARED 11 May 1954
RiKERENCES~?,?' .. ,..
PAGES ENCLOSURES (NO. & TYPE)
REMARKS
(shipments
T - tank cars
Date in Number of Load
April Cars or Trains
between 17 and 20 April
17 to 20 10 trains sugar Rositz Stettin
Magdeburg
18 35 G gasoline
19 6 cars undetermined USSR
44 cars It
shipments
gasoline
between 2 and 22 April:
B - boxcar C/B - converted boxcar F - flatcar G - gondola car:
Date in Number and Load
April T,Zpe of Cars
13 45 B sugar
15 60 B
16 45 B ,-
17 59 B
19
Rt"rkp 2
ApprRMEX4'fF?
Rosit z
Magdeburg
Rositz
Magdeburg
Rositz
Magdeburg-
-Buckau
Jueterbcg
Stettin )
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22, 1 'C/B, 13 B,
7 G, 15 F
3.
41 F empty
3 6 C/B
39. F
1 60 T
9. 48 T
14 53 T
7 60T
11 60 T
20 59 T
22 56 T
Kuestr.in Straus berg
including 7
cars to Alt-
Landsberg
Fuerstenwalde Jueterbog-Altes
Lager
Berlin-Rummels- It
burg
Jueterbog-Altes
Lager
erstenberg
Neustrelitz Troeglitz )
I3eipzig ) 6
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Leipzig-
-Plagwitz
Between 15 and 21 April, 6 trains passed through the Kietzrailroad station en route
to the USSR..
On 12 April, a train of 28 boxcars
from. Frankfurt/Oder to Moegelin.7
was dispatched
5. On 10 April, 14 boxcars were attached to the scheduled freight train operation
from Wustermark to Dall ow. The cars were d spatched at Fuersten,-
berg/Havel F_ r
6. On 16. l.ril a shipment of 15 two-axle tank trucks
passed through the Seddin railroad station. V On
22 April, a shipment of 10 new radio trucks passed through the Seddin railroad station
en route from Bad Saarow to Altengrabow,
On 14 April,. 50 to 60 Ro-type freight cars were dispatched from Merl:
On 14 April, two trains with sugar were dispatched foom Rositz to Stettin. On 15
April, one train with sugar was dispatched from Magdeburg-Burka to Ste
4.
r reserve cars.LUI I On 13 April, 12 box cars and 800 Soviet ty aui
arrived from.the.USSR in. Berlin, allegedly to be loaded there with faii~AW
Moscow. Of these cars, #10 boxcars and 600 other cars were loaded at Adlers,of, 1 boxcar
and 200 other cars at Nord freight atation and I GG-type' boxcar at Drewitz. On the
morn p.g of 16 April, all the cars weir. ratty for dispatch in the direction of Frank-
furt/Oder at the Berlin-Schoensweide railroad stat~ion.12 I I
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8. On 11 April, a shipment from Brest Litovsk to Moegelin
was dispatched from Frankfurt/Oder.' On 15 xpril, a train consisting of converted
boxcars 3 boxcars and 21 four-axle flatcars,n route from Brest Litovsk to Jueter-
bog and another train from Brest Lit vsk to Magde-
burg were dispatched from Frankfurt/Oder,13
Of f reserve cars., 60 empty boxcars were dispatched from Seddin to
Gera April, and 20 SSy-type flatcars from Gallun to Lei nitz (7) and
60 bo chi from Seddin to Burgkemmitz and Zerbst, on 14 April. 1
10. The following aoviet shipmentsiere observed in the Berlin railroad district between
11 and 19 April.
Date in Number of
April Axles or
Cars
11 63 axles
undetermined
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14- 92 It 1390
110 It 1490
It
sugar
cement
25X1 17 45 cars
45 It
25X1 18 110 axles 1480
19 43 cars
Frankfurt/Oder
Moegelin
7
Eienburg
Karsdorf
it
Rositz
Stettin )
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14
Nienburg
Karsdorf
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86 axles 1145 sugar Rositz
1, O Comment. these cars carried ammunition.
As no ammunition epo is 'mown to exist at Magdeburg-Buckau the shipment may have
been dispatched to Buckau-Pransdorf where a large ammunition depot of the Twenty-fourth:
Air Army is located.
2. 0 Comment. Sizeable sugar imports to the USSR are reported after an interx*uption
25X1 of about one year.
3. QComment. Deliveries of Fast German hydrogenation plants to the large Soviet
fuel depot at Velten.
4. 1 Comment, This shipment was probably consigned to the Central Air Force Depot
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5. jComment. Empty troop cars.
6. II comment. These empty tank cars had probably carried fuel to Stett;,,i:n,
7. Comment. These shipments are probably identical. The goods carried were
25X1 Fably consigned to the ordnance depot of the IV Arty Corps in Moegelin.
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10, Comment,. The central signal equipment depot of the xOFG is located at Bad
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11. 0 Comment, Cars of the reserve pool of freight cars have occasionally to be used
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Coinent, Probably a ration supply shipment dispatched from the ration supply
depot of the Second Gds Mech Army[ A to the Hq lst liech Div, at
Dail ow-Doeberitz.
OEo cztnent.. The tank trucks
belong the Twenty-Fourth Air Army and were probably returned from the Kasen
motor 'ehile repair shoe to their units. The Zeesen repair plant had special instal-
latiors.for the cleaning of tank trucks.
25X1 because of operational difficulties.
12,
0 Comment, These cars possibly carried material to be displayed at an exhibition
"Life in the GDR" allegedly to take place at Moscow.
13. Q comment, Probably motor vehicles and/or artillery prime movers dispatched
to known distribution points.
14. I Cam. Export deliveries to the USSR. At Stettin, tin cargo is transloaded
to water.
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