RAIL FREIGHT TRAFFIC THROUGH EAST GERMAN BORDER STATIONS

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• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: August 6, 2009
• Sequence Number: 2
• Publication Date: July 26, 1955
• Content Type: REPORT

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CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGWY
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INFORMATION Rg"RT
COUNTRY at Germany
SUBJECT Rail Freight Traffic through East
German Border Stations
PLACE
ACQUIRED
DATE OF
INFO.
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REPORT
CD NO.
DATE DISTR. '66 July 1955
NO. OF PAGES 4 8
NO. OF ENCIS.
(LISTED BELOW)
SUPPLEMENT TO
REPORT NO.
THIS IS UNEVALUATED INFORMATION
The fallowing shipments mere observed at P rM*f rt/ Ier beta 9 ri
14 May 1955:
B - boxcar F - flatcar G - gondola, Lt.r
Date in Nu::ber and
May Type of C~+xc~
9 56 G
45 T
30 B
56 B
10 56 G
56 G
56 G
45 T
56 B
11 55 B
56 G
56 G
56 G
56 G
56 G
12 56 G
56 G
46 B
13 56 B
56 B
46 B
56 F
1 ampwi
STATE
ARMY
CLASSIFICATION
Brest Litovsk
Frankfurt/Oder
Frankfurt/Oder
Breit Litovsk
of
Frankfurt/Oder
Brest Litovsk
Frankfurt/Oder
Brest Litovsk
Frankfurt/Oder
Brest Litovsk
II
Frankfurt/Oder
if
Frankfurt/Oder
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coal
undetermined
empty
iron ore
empty
undetermined
II
coke and iron
ore
empty
iron ore
empty
iron ere
empty
uranium ore
uranium ore
crates
NAVY NSRS
AIR FBI
Frankfurt/Oder
Brest Litovsk 1
Frankfurt/Oder 2
Brest Litovsk
Ziltendorf ()
3
>
1
Frankfurt/Oder
Brest Litovsk
Frankfurt/Oder 2
Ziltendorf 3
Brest Litovsk
Ziltendorf 3
Brest Litovsk
Ziltendorf
Brest Litovsk
n
Frankfurt/Oder )
Brest Litovsk
n
5
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14 1 shipment
56 G
55 F
46 B
56 aced 3-ton Frankfurt/Oder Brest Litovsk 5
trucks
empty
crates and iron
parts
uranium ore it ft 4
1 shipment 54 armored Brest Litovsk Frankfurt/Oder 6
personne4carriers marshaling yard
2s The following shipments were observed passing 'through Frankfurt/Oiler between
10 and 18 May:
Date in Number and Load From To
May Type of Cars
10 20 B grain
35 G
20 G
22
16 B
12 B
iron ore
of
14 F
16 F
16 F
10 B
10 T
24 F
men
iron
Frankfurt/Oder Frankfurt/Oder
-border DSU 1
Ziltendorf 3
Unterwellenborn
Bess
Terg
Berlin
Wiederitsch
Leipzig
Magdeburg
Brest Litovsk
it 1~;
It it
textiles Plauen
paraldehyde Merseburg
iron constrictions Wiederitsch
11 75 G iron ore Frankfurt/Oder
15 G
border
20 B grain, peanuts
12 F
12 F
iron
18 G coal
210 T fuel
10 G calles
12 F machinery
6 B printing
6 B furniture
Grosskorbetha
Berlin-Lichten-
berg
Drewitz
Dreiwerden
Liebenwerda
12 22 B ammunition
30 B grain, peanuts
20 B
30 B
49 T
24 F
crude oil
Frankfurt/Oder
border
machinery and Magdeburg
machinery parts
10 F crane parts Eberswalde
14 F machinery Erfurt
13 2 B
1f $
is B
12 G
Mrskin
M
paper wood
3
Unterwellenborn
Frankfurt/Oder
DSU 2
Dresden
Koethen
Piesteritz
Brest Litovsk 1
Altengrabow 7
Frankfurt/Oder
DST 2
Fuerstenberg 2
Magdeburg 2
Krumpa 8
Brest Litovsk
Frankfurt/Oder Magdeburg
border
Erfurt
" Pirna
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15 10 G
10 G
24 G
20 F
22 F
18 F
36 B
20 B
12 F
30 T
30 G
15 F
20 F
12 F
8 F
8 B
8 G
15 20 B
10 B
30 G
20 G
20 F
12 F
10 F
30 T
24 F
20 F
10 T6
4B
3B
30 G
15 G
20 .
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paper wood
sheet metal
pig iron
Frankfurt/Oder Merseburg
border
machinery and Magdeburg
machinery parts
iron consturction Leipzig
Ichtershausen
and boilers
machinery
Chemnitz
Frankfurt/Oder
Torgau
border
g31i
Frankfurt/Oder
DSU
Berlin
m
cotton
Riess,
Torgau
Halle
Ruhland
iron or
Zil tendo'f
iron
is
Dresden
iron *one
one Wiederitsch
Brest Litovsk
machinery
Dresden
Goerlitz
screws
Finsterwalde
cables
Berlin-Rummels-
burg
paraldehyde
Merseburg
grain
Frankfurt/Oder
Frankfurt/Oder
border
DSU
cotton
iron ore
Stralsund
Riesa
Brest Litovsk
n
Ziltendorf
Unterwellenborn
Wiederitsch
Erfurt
Koethen
RUhland
Brest Litovsk
mach' nery and Magdeburg
" parts
iron vonstructions Leipzig
gaso.ine Grosskorbetha
Sued
it tv
Fuerstenberg
Wittenberg
grain, peanuts
t
coke
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Finsterwalde
Ivov 9
Frankfurt/Oder ration supply
machinery and Magdeburg
machinery parts
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depot Kalinin 9
Fran kfurt/Oder
DSU 2
Ziltendorf 3
Eisleben
Brest Litovsk
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17 24 F
12 F
8 G
60 G
20 G
20 G
20 G
10 F
10 B
6B
12 F
10 F
10 F
12 F
.8 F
iron constctions
machingrf
cables
Rellwolle (rayon)
iron ore
pig iron
sheet metal
printe'i.
Wiederitsch
Erfurt
Berlins-Rummels-
burg
Wolfen
Frankfurt/Oder
border
if
if
It
Leipzig
Liebenwerda
Schkeuditz
Schmalkalden
Dessau
Dresden
Aue
Brest Litovsk
is
It
Frankfurt/Oder
DSU
Ziltendorf 3
Thale
Hennigsdorf
Groeditz
Rostock
Brest Litovsk
-t
It
it
it
to
it
30 The following shipments passed through the
between 8 and 11 May:
E - express train coach
R - refrigerator car
Date in Number and
May
Type of Cara
-
8 10 E
new
Bwast Litovsk
10
3 F
wheel sets
23 R
11
10
7 F
wheel sets
40 B
uranium ore
direction of
Cottbus
4
11 50 R
empty
direction of
Frankfurt/Oder
The following shipments from Frankfurt/Oder-border were observed at the
I(I~1~i
Oranienburg railroad statioh on 10 and 13 May:
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Date in Number and
May Type of Cars
13 1 B, 14 !
14 T
Mrsr .
2 fuel containers Frankfurt/Oder
border
city
ffig" miners
about 3,000
to 500 liters
capacity
undetermined
43 tons each
sp,. r track to
former concentration
camp Sachsenhausen
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12 and 14 May:
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shipments
Date in Number and Load From To
May Type of Cars
12 22 F exceeding Frankfurt/Oder Forst Zinna
standard
measurements,
700 tons
5 of these cars were forwarded to Meinsdorf on 13 May
1 B, 14 F undetermined Niedergoers- Forst Zinna
80 azles ape
13 1 B, 22 F tons ildpark Frankfurt/Oder
14 1 B, 14 F undetermined Jueterbog- Brest Litovsk
Altes Lager
13 and 18 May:
shipments
between
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C/B converted boxcar
SSy heavy-duty flatcar
Date in Composition From To
May of Train
13 1 CB, 13 B, Jueterbog- Brest Litovsk
29 F Altes Lager
1 CB, 30 F Wildpark Frankfurt/Oder
14 3 CB9 7 B, Jueterbog-A Brest Litovsk
12 F Altes Lager
18 1 CB, 13 `B, Mockrehna Jueterbog-
10 SSy Altes Lager
1 CB, 10 SSy, 10 of the boxcars forwarded
13 B with to Finow
ammunition
1 CB, 1 B, Frankfurt/Oder Forst Zinna
16 SSy
Between 3 and 7 May
a. The dispatch of empty tank cars to he East continued. A daily
average of 50 cars were dispatched. ((
b. Fifty to ninety tank cars located with crude oil daily arrived at
Frankfurt/Oder8and were forwarded from there to Krumpa, Merseburg,
and Magdeburg.
c. On 7 May, the dispatch of empty grain shuttle trains were abruptly
discontinued. Grain shuttle trains were being prepared for dispatch
in RBD Berlin when the order for discontinuation of the operation
atriv4, Pa-11 of the cafe which had already been equipped were used
for intra-zonal grain s.pmdnts, the equipment of the restraining cars
was removed.2
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2 CB, 12 F *o Finowfurth
the following shipments were dispatched 25X1
2 CB, 22 F to Forst Zinrl 25X1
from Brest Litovsk on 9 May:
Comment. Deliveries from East German hydrogenations plants to
the USSR and empty tank cars returned from the USSR.
Comment. Grain imports from the USSR via Frankfurt/Oder. The,
discontinuation of the grain shuttle program is reported for the fist
time (paragraph 70).
Comment. Raw material deliveries to the Sisenhuettenkombinat.Ost
Foundry Combine Rast) at Fuerstenberg/Oder which is'served by the
Ziltendorf railroad station.
Comment. These shipnents were connected with the motor vehicle
6.
exchange program.
Comment. Frankfurt/Oiler was probably Rio
for this shipmen the consignee of which -cane
Comment. Ammunition supplies for known Soviet'
Comment. Continuation of-,
East German hydrogenation plant
supplies from Austria.
Comment. depot of the First Gds
Meoz Army in Dresden; clothi depot of the
Second Gds Meoz Army at Fuerstenberg; engineer 25X1
equipment park of the GSFG at Fuerstenwalde; ration supply depot Kalinin
is the ration supply depot of the GSFG at Frankfurt/Oder.
Comment. Export deliveries from East German railroad oars factories 25X1
to he eh USSR. The Soviet gauge wheel sets carried along will be used on the
new cars in the USSR.
Comment. The fuel containers dispatched to Sachsenhausen were
probably consigned to the KVP depot which is being constructed there.
The shipment to Eden consisted of fuel for jet engines and was consigned
to the bomber regiment stationed there.
(Comment. This shipment of new ta tanks was reported reviou 1
but with only 16 oars.
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14-
16.
Comment. Probably aircraft crates which were returned to the
Comment. Intra-zonal shipment from the ammunition depot at
(Comment. This shi ffient is ?ssibl identical with
shipment of jet engine fuel from the USSR for units of the Twenty-Fourth
Air Army.
Comment. Continuation of the dispatch of empty tank cars for the
19;
Comment. This shipment was reported Arevioush
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The shipment consisted probably of MiG-17s~
in Eberswalde-Pinow, MiG..17s were observed there for the first
time on 11 May.
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