RAIL FREIGHT TRAFFIC THROUGH EAST GERMAN BORDER STATIONS

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80-00810A006100410002-0
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 9
• Document Creation Date: December 21, 2016
• Document Release Date: July 9, 2008
• Sequence Number: 2
• Publication Date: April 5, 1955
• Content Type: REPORT

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CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY REPORT
INFORMATION ( PORT CD NO.
COUNTRY East Germany
SUBJECT Rail Freight Traffic through East Germs
Border Stat ions
PLACE
ACQUIRED
DATE OF
INFO.
THIS DOCON ENT CONTAI NO INFOANATIOM AFFICTIMS THE NATIONAL DSFNNS!
OF Till ONITRO STATES. WITHIN TM! NRANINS OF TITLE IS. SECTIONS 763
AND 7N. OF TMl V. S. CODI. Al ANRNDED. ITS TRANSMISSION OR RIVAL-
ATION OF ITS CONTINTS TO OR HUIFT ET AN DNAOTMONIIID PI1ANOS"
IS MONIDIDID By LAW TTII RITRDDDDCTION? OF THIS FOMN 13 FROMIRITIO.
D - boxcar
F - flptcar
C - gondola car
Dpte in Number and.
December Type of Cars
ef
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DATE DISTR. 5 April 1955
NO. OF PAGES 9
NO. OF ENCLS.
(LISTED BELOW)
SUPPLEMENT
REPORT NO.
THIS IS UNEVALUATED 'INFORMATION
Sp -- special car
T - tank car
pig iron Frankfurt 'Oder Croeditz
border
Saxons= and
Thuringia 1
Leipzig
iron Leipzig Brest Litovsk
constructions
machinery
machinery and Magdeburg
mac'-inert.- parts
machinery
Goerlitz
Gera
G1auchau
oftee"llowl
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Date Plumber Load
in and Type
December of Cars
25 14 F equipment for
cement factories
26 46 F iron constructions
F machinery and
machinery parts
12 F machinery
10 G cables
6 B acid
10 B sheet aluminum
10 F machinery
12 G pig iron
4 F sheet met=l
4 F
4 F
Leipzig
P;iagdeburg
Jena
Berl i-n--,'ieissPnsce
Berl in-Koc-renick
Bitterfeld
Hettstedt
-wickau
Erfurt
Frankfurt 'Oder
';order
Frankfurt 'Oder
border
40 F mac!- inert' and a.gdeburg
r'achinery parts
50 F iron constructions Leipzig
12 F machinery Dresden
12 F it Zwickau
Erfurt
Tlennigsdorf
Au e
`Jarnemu: ride
Str- lsi.and
Leirzi1
Ha, e
Iiresde,f
JIrest-Litovsk
Rie se
0hr'mnitz
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Date Number Load
in and Type
December of Cars
26 14 F crane parts Ebers};walde
14 F equipment for Dessau
cement factories
28 10 B undetermined Frankfurt "Oder
border
56 F machinery and 'ragdeburg
machinery parts
48 F iron constructions Leipzig
22 F It Erfurt
1' F machinery Dresden
8 F Aue
10 G ',Berlin-Ostha`'en
8 F Berlin-Lichtenberg
u G c'bles Bergin-Koepenick
12 F equipment for Dessau
cement factories
29 18 G nif-? iron
Now
Fran furt 'Oder
Brest-Litovsk
Frankfurt /Oder
Chemnitz
Leipzig
Berl in
Leipzig
Berlin
Leipziin
icL:au.
Er furt
"lera
Brest-i,itovsk
Brandenburg
R'i.ttenberg
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Date Numb , p Load
in ^nd Type
December of Cars
14 G pig iron
28 G ore
14 G pig iron
48 F machinery
50 F iron constructions
20 F machinery and
machinery parts
14 F machinery
10 B Zellwolle
2 B films
8 B chemicals
8 B printing paper
10 B textiles
10 F iron
Frankfurt /Oder
border
Leipzig
Zeitz
,'Jarnemueride
Dresden
Chemcitz
Wolf en
Bitterfeld
Dreiwerden
Plauen
Frankfurt /Oder
border
5 F
56 F machinery and
machinery parts
20 F
20 F
SECRE
60 F iron constructions
Magdeburg
Leipzig
Erfurt
Dessau
Riesa
Ziltendorf 2
Crossen
P1[agdeburg
Brest-Litovsk
Leipzig
Dresden
0hemnitz
Erfurt
HnIle
Berlin.
Zwickau
Ebers ride
Ziltendorf
Brest-Litovsk
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Date Number
in and Type
December _pf Cars
31 40 F machinery and
machinery parts
12 F crane parts
January
1 8 B cotton
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60 F machinery and
machinery parts
20 F
20 F
10 F machinery
14 F equipment for
dement factories
Halle
Eberswalde
Frankfurt /Oder
border
Magdeburg
Leipzig
Erfurt
Dessau
Aue
Grimma
Bitterfeld
Dresden
Zwickau
Chemnitz
Magdeburg
Dessau
Frankfurt/Oder
border
Brest-Litovsk
B.iesa.
Chemnitz
Leipzig
Berlin
Ziltendorf 2
Erfurt
Leipzig
Goerli tz
Haile
Grimmer
Brest-Litovsk
Saarow 4
Ziltendorf 225X1
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Date dumber Load
in and Type
January of Cars
10 G pig iron
14 G
16 G
16 G
60 F machinery and
machinery parts
60 F iron constructions
14 F steam boilers
30 F machinery
60 F tractors
20 F equipment for
cement factories
Frankfurt "Oder
border
Magdeburg
Leipzig
Dresden
Dessau
Berlin-Osthafen
Halle
Brandenburg
Dessau
4 Sp electric rectifiers undetermined
(4-axle) valued 4 million DME
3 10 G pig iron
60 F machinery
60 F iron constructions
20 F machinery
2 F
8 F
Frankfurt /Oder
border
Magdeburg
Leipzig
Crimma
Zeitz
Jena.
HenniFsdorf
Thale
Groeditz
Brandenburg
Brest-Litovsk
Cross en
Eisl eben
,itter-'erg
C'cemnitz
Leipzig
Seitz
Dresden
iirest-Litovsk
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Date
in
January
Number Load
and Type
of Cars
3 14 F machinery
18 P
16 F iron constructions
5 14 G pig iron
12 G
12 F machinery
6 6 F sheet metal
12 F iron
10 F "
6 T salad oil
14 F machinery parts
a F machinery
32 G ore
Frankfurt/Oder Riesa
border
" Dresden
it Berlin
Magdeburg Brest-Litovsk
Leipzig it
Frankfurt Oder Hennigg.?sdorf
border
Groeditz
Ri.ese
Tha.le
.Frankfurt 'Oder Brf st-.Litovsk
Rgb
Magdeburg
Frankfurt/Oder
border
Leipzig
Chemnitz
Frankfurt/Ode.-
border
Stralsund
Rostock
Warnemuende
`Viederitzsch
hemni t z
l.tendorf 2
His?eben
Dresden
Leipzig
Halle
Zeitz
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516 undetermined Kietz
Tdialydeburg- Brest-Litovsk
Buckau
from Fra.r'-furt 'Oder to Sedd Jn on 7 January
Date Number Load
n and Type
January of Cars
7 18 F 18 pontoons Fuerstenwwra] de lbers a.lde 5
14 F macti'inery and Magdeburg Brest'-Litovsk
machinery parts
8 14 F iron constructions Leipzig
36 T empty
30 F n
Frankfurt 'Oder
Date Composition
in of Train
December
25 25 F 600 Ellerholz Brest-Litovsk
26 1 train Schwarzenberg
28 1 train E]lerholz
30 1 C'B, 50 F l euruppin
136 axles 1,100 ',7iederitzsch Frankfurt'Oder
January
13 50 F
?A boxcars and 14 crashcars were dispatched frog Frankfurt Cder to
vJ t (n,-rabow on 1' $anuary
On '7 Jaru-?nry, a train of 50 flatcars with -rucks en route '?rom ?Trest-
L'tovsk to Zi.esar mot stuck in snowdrifts on the bribe across the Oder
river ne-r Frankfurt 'Oder.8
At 14'C on 13 January, a train loaded ^.ith 50 to 60 trucks 'a.s being
assembled in the Dallgow railroad station.8
Comment. Grain imports from the USSR most of which are directed
via Guben and to a minor extent via Franl{furt/Oder.
Comr:ert. Raw materials from the USSR for the Eisenhuettenkombi.net
Ost Foundry Combine East) at Fuerstenberg'Oder which is served by the
Ziltendorf railroad station.
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Com er.t.`'robably ration supplies for the GSFG depot,
Com ent. Ammunit'on shirments from the USSR. A large ammunition
de-not is nru'n to be located at Altengrabow. The shipment to Saaro~rw
-es eit"er consigned to a minor depot there or to the large arniunition
depot nt Pfeffendorf also called WAlilmersdorf which is located near
there.
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Commer;t. Probably pontoons dispatched from the Rechlin shipyard to
1,1 the USSR.
7. I (Comment. 1 the
dispatching station this train carried uranium ore to the USSR.
are apparently assigned to such shipments. The shipment observed in
Da'l.gow probPbly consisted of used trucks which were returned to the USSR.
excniYfge
program.
Comment. These shipments --ere connected with the motor vehicle
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