RAIL FREIGHT TRAFFIC THROUGH FRANKFURT/ODER

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80-00810A007700540005-6
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 21, 2016
• Document Release Date: September 22, 2008
• Sequence Number: 5
• Publication Date: July 26, 1955
• Content Type: REPORT

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COUNTRY REPORT
TOPIC
EVALUATION
DATE OF CONTENT
DATE OBTAINED
REFERENCES
DATE PREPARED 26 July-1955
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REMARKS
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the following shipments were observed
at Frankfurt/ Oder between 16 and 22 July 1955:
C/B - converted boxcar, B - boxcar,.SSy - heavy-duty. flatcar, F - flatcar
July_
Date in Number and Type of Cars From
exceeding m?asurements
1 C/B, 20 B, 15 crash cars, Dessau
850 tons, .
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Riess,
21 4 B, 40 F with 1,000 tons Leipzig Warsaw 3
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Rail Freight Traffic through Frankfurt/Oder
1 C/D, 16 SSy with load Frankfurt/Oder Oschatz
90 axles, 1,000 tons
19 13 SSy
8 SSy
20 15 SSy with load
exceeding standard
measurements
22 4 B, 40 F " 1,000 " ~liederitzsch
Ithe trains carried new tanks (T-54s ). According to places
of destination, the shipments were consigned to the following units: 9th Tk
Div at Oschatz and Riesa; heavy SP in regiment of the 8th Gds Army at
Glauchau; and 11th Gds Tk Div at Riesa.
2. Comment. Probably return of ammunition and/or empty ammunitio-i. boxes
from the Soviet ammunition dump at Kapen near Dessau to the USSR.
previously been observed crossi
Comment. Presumably iron constructions (bridge sections and crane
sections) of GDR make to be-exported to Poland. Similar shipments have
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Brest-Litovsk
Dresden/1Teustadt Warsaw 3
Frankfurt/Oder Giauchau
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