MISCELLANEOUS RAILROAD INFORMATION

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80-00810A004400400009-3
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 5
• Document Creation Date: December 20, 2016
• Document Release Date: July 11, 2007
• Sequence Number: 9
• Publication Date: July 30, 1954
• Content Type: REPORT

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This material contains information effecting the Na-
tional Defense of the United States within the mean-
Ing of the Eeplonage laws, Title 18. D.S.C. Sees. 793
and 794, the transmission or revelation of which In
any manner to an unauthorized person Is prohibited
bylaw. 25X1
COUNTRY
REPOR~
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SUBJECT
DATE DISTR. 30 July 1954
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REQUIREMENT
REFERENCES
THE SOURCE EVALUATIONS IN THIS REPORT ARE DEFINITIVE.
THE APPRAISAL OF CONTENT IS TENTATIVE,
(FOR KEY SEE REVERSE)
2. Russian Staff of the Karlshorst Department
The Russian staff of the Transport and Communications Department of the Office
of the Soviet High Commissioner to Germany, at Berlin-Karlshorst, consisted
Telephbne
number
Offirl al
osi on
29306 General Voronichev Ghicf.
29310 Col. Chernyshev Deputy
29320 Col. Tolstykh Political officer
and chief of the
finance section.
Col. Ta?basac'
Col. Kalabushkin
Lt. Col. Ivanov
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Second deputy to
the General and
chief of traffic
section.
Third deputy to
the General and
chief of the car,
locomotive, and
repair shops section.
 Telephone
numb Name
Official
Position
Chief of the safety
and track section.
29388 Major Tur Chief of car section,
under Kalabushkin.
29324/5 Major Kovtunovskiy Chief of dispatch
section.
29346 Engineer Maryutin Chief of repair
shops, in Kalabush-
kin's section.
These telephone numbers may be called in two ways: over the East German rail-
road network by direct dialling; or over the public number BERLIN 580851: a
Russian woman answers this number and connects the caller only when he has
given his name and appointment.
The name of Col. Sadovnikov, which appeared on the previous list (July 1953),
is missing; he has been sent back to the USSR.
3. Locomotives
The number of locomotives in East Germany on the census date 17 February 1954
was:
Total
6,553
Working park
5,142
Under repair
1,037
Column locomotives (Kolonnenloks)
374
4. Damaged Cars
In January 1954, 30,830 cars were taken out of service; the figure was broken
down as follows:
Overheated
1,818
Technical faults
29,012
5. Estimated Total Number of Freight Cars
The Ministry of Railroads uses the following estimated figures as a basis for
the preparation of daily loading plans for freight cars:
Total number of freight cars, in round figures
125,000
Total number in the traffic park, in round figures
100,000
6. 1953 Work on "Special Projects"
a. On 9 February 1954, Staimerlof the Ministry of Railroads wrote to Voronichev
of the Russian Transport and Communications office about work which had been done
in 1953 on special projects. He listed these, with a sum of money in thousands
of eastmarks (TDM) against each, as follows:
(1)
Hoppenwalde
710 TDM
(2)
Elbe
90 "
(3)
Gransee-Woltersdorf
1820 "
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(4)
Glowe
2560 TOM
(5)
Devwinkel
1851 "
(6)
Magerviehhof
241 "
b. It was learned from other documents that these projects included the following
construction work:
(1) Hoppenwalde
On the line from Jatznick to Ueckermuende, at
the 158.5 Ions. mark, loading and unloading
facilities for the National Army (UP) were
built.
A siding was built at the Neubrandenburg
station on the Berlin-Stralsund line. Load-
ing and unloading facilities for the UP
were also provided.
(3) Gransee- A loading and unloading place for the KVP
Woltersdorf was provided at the Gransee station on the
Berlin-Neustrelitz-Stralsund line.
(4) Glowe A connecting line (Verbindungskurve) was
built in Stralsund. The station atLtetzow
(Ruegen) was completed. A branch line was
constructed in Boachwitz between Lietzow
and Sagard. The abandoned Ruegen harbor
project was connected to the Zest German
network.
(5) Devwinkel Loading and unloading installations for the
KVP at Devwinkel station were provided;
these were on the Gueetrow-Neubrandenburg
line, near Guestrow station.
(6) Magerviehhof pro-
the unloading
forwere
following facilities
vided Loading at and
therKVP:
Berlin-Lichtenberg, Berlin-Fr1edrichafelde,
and Berlin-Magerviehhof.
Note: Projects 1-4 above came under RBD (Reichsbahndirektion) Greifswald,
project 5 under RBD Schwerin, and project 6 under RBD Berlin.
1954 Building Program
The following building plan for 1954 became known in the Ministry of Railroads
in January 1954. It concerns rolling stock for railroad use, to be built in
East Germany:
Locomotives
2 type 1D2 for normal gauge passenger trains
2 type 1D2 for normal gauge freight trains
16 type 1E1 for narrow gauge - 750 mm-
7 type lKl for narrow gauge - 1000 mm.
Freight Cars
250 4-axle refrigerator cars
800 GGe cars
100 K or KM cars
25 KKt cars
 700 00s half cars
27 tank cars, 4-axle, for bitumen
100 tank cars, 2-axle, for sulfuric acid
25 acid cars
25 coal dust cars
10 double-tier cars
100 5-4- and boxcar (Kastenwagen)
8. Locomotive Construction Program (1954 - 1957)
A table prepared in the Ministry in January 1954 showed the program of new loco-
motive types of the East German Railroads:
Year of Construction
1 D2-x2
1954
1 D2-x2
1954
1 31-x2
1955
42-x2
1955
1 E-x2
1956
2 S1-x4Fau
1957
1 S2-xFau
-
The following intonation was Obtained 1n the Minis tyr
a. 1 locomotive of each type included in the 1954 construdtion plan would
be ready in 1954;
b. 100 locomotives of the types foreseen for 1955 were to be produced;
c. 200 per year were to be produced of the types planned for 1956 and 1957;
d. The orders for these locomotives were to be filled by VEB Lokomotivbau
Karl Marx Babelsberg with the assistance of the plants at Hennigsdorf
and Wildau.
9. Description of locomotive Series 52
On 18 February 1954, the Ministry of Railroads sent the Russians a description
of the locomotive series 52, prepared by the Technical Central Office (Technisches
Zentralamt). This description included all the essential technical data of these
locomotives.
10. Track Failures
A table prepared early in 1954 showed the details of track failures (Schienen-
brueche) for each month of 1953. The figures were broken down by RBDs. They
showed a total of 5,522 failures in all RBDs, for the whole year. This compared
with 3,766 failures for 1952.
11. Materials in Short Supply Received by the Railroads in 1953
On 11 January 1954, the Ministry reported to the Russians on the amounts of
materials received in December 1953 and for the whole of 1953, in each of a
listed class of materials in short supply. The following figures about imports
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Iron sheets (medium thickness): During 1953, 88.6 tons out of 1,557
tons were imported from the USSR.
Iron sheets (thick): In December 1953, 777 tons out of
4,064 tons were imported from the
USSR.
199 tons came from a special import
from the USSR, but it is not clear
if this is part of the 1953 total of
1,1158 tons or the December total of
493 tons.
Wheel rims: 16,718 items, out of a total of
70,114, were delivered by the USSR.
12. Patent for Adjustable Wheel Sets
On 6 January 1954, a patent was taken out for adjustable wheel sets for railroad
use. The patent was taken out in the Patent Department of the All-Union Chamber
of Trade, Moscow, in the name of Alfred Grevesmuehl and Guenther Schulz, both
of the Technical Central Office of the East German Railroads. No further details
are known.
13. Speech of the Deputy Minister of Railroads
On 15-17 January 1954, the Third Railway Conference was held in Leipzig. In
the course of a long speech, Deputy Minister Epwin brae; mentioned that:
a. The car park had from year to year grown until it was now of such a
size that no further growth in 1954 could be contemplated. On the other hand,
the railroads were being asked to do 11 percent more in 19541 this could only
be achieved by a quicker turn-round of freight cars.
b. Watchfulness was particularly necessary in the transportation world,
because that was the place where the enemy could most easily damage East Germany.
Lomment: Deputy Minister of Railroads Richard Staimer. 25X1