TRANSPORTATION AND MILITARY SUPPLY SUMMARY FOR AUGUST 1960

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• Publication Date: November 3, 1960
• Content Type: REPORT

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INFORMATION REPORT INFORMATION REPORT
CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY
This material contains information affecting the National Defense of the United States within the meaning of the Espionage Laws, Title
18, U.S.C. Sscs. 793 and 794, the transmission or revelation of which in any manner to an unauthorized person I. prohibited by law.
S-E-C-R-E-T
COUNTRY East Germany/USSR/Poland
SUBJECT Transportation and Military Supply
Summary for August 1960
DATE OF
INFO.
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DATE ACQ.
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military supply summary for East Germany, the USSR and Poland.
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Tray ortztion t imrnary for guest -1960
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Freight Transportation Plan for the first six months of 1960.
A total of 1,'83 million passengers in 1959.
A total of .65,4 billion passenger kilometers in 1959.
28trenohmente and reductions in the administration of the railroads.
Changes in the eastern sector of the Central Siberian Magistrale.
The oompilation of the projecting of the western part of tll.e`South
Siberian Magistrale.
Some railroad lines donverted to diesel operation.
Production and construction of two new types of diesel locomotives.
Increase of stock of passenger cars by 2,500 new all-metal cars.
II. Fast Germany
Ulbricht plans to stop civilian air traffic to West Berlin.
Fifth meeting of the Ministers' Conference of the OSShD (Organization
for the Cooperation of Railroads) to be held in Narth Korea, 17 to
22 September 1960.
Freight traffic performance of the Reiohebahn doubled between 1950
and 1959
Preparations of the operational and traffic servic9s for the fall
and the Leipzig Fair traffic.
Stable coal situation of tk .e Reichsbahn with sul'fi --cent stocks of"
bituminous coal.
Heavy military loading for the Soviets and the EVA.
Shuttle trains for perronise l rotation.
Intern military railuo_^do:rtraffic with numerous s.lipnent. to the
USSR. The first shuttle trains put into o;. eration between east and
west.
Grain shuttle trains assemlied for commercial trans-border traffic.
".Loading junctional' established in the agricultural priority districts.
Extension of cooperation b?.t een the chemical plants and the Reichabahn.
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Strike tendencies among Reichsbahn perso:;,nel due to bonus reduction,
The Socialist brigades do not develop according to plan,
The clearance limitation of the Southern Berlin Outer Ring expanded.
Connecting tracks under construction for military objects.
The Rostock / Schwa= line is being reconstructed doixble-track.
Development of the Ueichsbahi, pool of electric locomotives.
PAW-Goths is to be taken over by VVB (union of nationalized enterprises)
,Lendmaischinen- and Traktorenbau (agricultural machines and tractor con-
struction); Railroad oars with home station RA:. Gotha to be distributed to
other ftA;'s.
A new self-discharging oar for bulk freight developed by VEB Waggonbau
(car construction) Goerlitz.
Construction of test runs with the Kramer - Neeke type gauge changing
wheel sets. The ecries production of the wheel sets expected to start
at RA;; "7th Octobei" in 1961.
New 2.5 ton truck is to be built at YEB Robur Plant in Zittau.
the shortage of heavy vehicles in Fast Germany is due to the "Socialist
Division of Work". Insufficient deliveries from Czechoelovakia and Hungary.
Establishment of state control offices for road construction.
The highway border crossing point near Stett:.n to be orened in May 1961.
Air freight trans,7ortation was
III. Poland
The first section of the new Rzes zow - Deba railroad line has been put into
service.
The Warsaw - Czachowek stations and stops of railroad districts Breslau,
Danzi, Krakow and Posen to be closed. down.
Repair of all four-axle and major freight ca:^s at the 213TK .(repair shop
for rolling stock).
The new Five Years' Plan includes 14 billion zloty for the purchase of
rollin- stock. The P&P is to receive 254 elnotric'locomotives, 293 electric
railcar trains, about 500. diese locomotives, 277 diesel rail Errs? 1,656
passenger cars, and about 38,000, freight card.
Construction of a new diesel locomotive Type ST-15-
Polish industry produced 19 electric locomotives, 1) electric railoarvp 345
passenger cars and 7,036 frei,hi cars during the first six months of 1960.
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Motor vehicles produced during the first six months of 1960 totalled 6,650
passenger oars, 9,301 trucks, 2,410 tractors, and 68,500 motorcycles.
The' 1961/65.Investment Plan provides for 1,215 million sloty to be spent
for river control partieularv of the middle Vistula River.
I Tranat)ot'tation
Genera
Freight Transportation Plan for the First Six 14onthg of 1960
First Six Plan As ooutpared with the
'Jionthe of Fulfilment first six months of
1960
(in rcent- 1959
age) (in percentage)
ht Turnover
(in billion t/ksm)
Railroad *)
736
102
105
Motor vehicle traffic
11
103
123
Inland ship $ng
38
103
110
Crude oil-pipelines
2;
106
129
`reirht Shi. ments
(in'million tons)
Railroad
921
102
107
Motor vehicle traffic
714
106
125
Inland shipping
83'
104
109
Crude oil pipelines
61
105
118
The freight turnover ha;;.l.ed by the electric anc: diesel locomotives
increased by 37 percent ;luring the first six months o!` 1960 as com-
pared with the same per:.od in 1959. Its share in the totnni. freight
turnover of the raiiroa._s was 41.5 percent.
2. Organization
a. In 1959, the number of a?sengers totalled 1,8113 millions (a 49 million
increase compared with ._958):, and the volume o.' passenger transpoztetior,
amounted to 164.4 bil.li:)n pa3,~engc c kilometers,. In 1960, the volume of
passenger traneportatic::i is to amount to 167 b::llion passenger kilo-
meters.
b4 During the last few yea.:, the organizational 5et?-up of the h1inistry
for Traffic *as reduced. b,: 47 percent and the .iuml er of perscnnel
of the administrations of railroad divisions bj 40 percent. The
number of railroad divl-~ions was reduced from ~3 to 34, and the
number of railroad sub-,!'visions from 284 to 187.
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Railroad Transportation
a. NeV Lines
i. The routing of the eastern section of the Central Siberian
Magiatrale has been changed. According to :revious indications,
the Kamen - Al.tayskaya line .gas to be routed from the ia`orth-West
to tae South-East, generally along the Ob :River.
Recent plans provid:: for the routing of tho line from Kamen in
easterly direction ;o the passing point t:o 14 (about 12 km south
of the Usty-Talmene'caya railroad station) on the Novosibirsk -
Barnaul railroad line., From Passing Point 1,1 to Altayskaya the
line will simultaneausly co.stitute the second track of the
Novosibirsk. - Barna.zl line which is being double tracked. Mork
trains are already ..going the stretch from Kamen to Passing Point
14. By 1962, the co:s_?lete line to Altayska; a is to ba put into
service.
ii. After surveying of the western part of the South Siberian Magistrale
had been completed ;see Transport, .tion Summary of T.!ay 1960),
compiling of the d .::'fer'ent orders for the project has st.,rted
and is to be completed bj 30 September 1960.
b. Dieselization
By mid-1960, the fo11owi-nt-; lines were converted to diesel oper?;tion:
i. The total 4,100 kil.:>meter Kinel - 0renbur' - Tashkent - Chardzhou -
.::rasnowodsk line.
ii. The 1,000 kilometer llet-3k -U:< - Astrakhatz - Kitslyar
2akhaehkala line.
iii. The 735 kilom ter .'~uyki - Liski - Pensa section
iv. The Zuoyarvi - Zukk.)zero section of the West Karelian M..igistrale
v. Preparations ar-e uni.er way for the dieseli:,ation of the Vo?khovs-
tro - Petrozavodsk ?? Idel section of the Murmansk line.
c. Rolling Stock
i. The new diesel swit,hind; locomotive TJM-2 i,ido 0001) which was built
by the plant for ma ;hi.ne construction at B.yaz sk is being
tested at the locomotive testinj-_lant. The 1,200 PS engine has
a rated speed. of 100 km/h.
ii. The plant for the construction of transpor-: machines at Kharkov
is deei,;ning a new d:iesei locomotive Type TE-30 which is to re.?
place the series di -,jacl locomotive Type TL??3. 4th lass axle
load and lo:ver fuel con suunption thi., new locomotive is supposed
to have the same c7;>acity as the old TE-3 :_ocomotive.
iii. In 1960, the stock pa;3sen6e.c cars was supplemented by 2,500 new
all-metal cars. Thu ; an ad:itaonal 10',000 sleeper car berth
are available,
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Between 17 and 22 cx:;~temiiex 106Q, the fift3 me tin of the Ministers'
Conference of the O hD is to take place in i joen jane,- (North Korea).
The me :tiny; will be attended by repre. ?ntatives of the, Council for
1-utual Economic Aid,, Among others, the following points have been put
on the agendas
The improvement of the international pas~3erger and f :-eiGitt t.affic?
The development of rotor vehicle traffic system.
The introduction of an autoriutic coupler.
Theexpansi.on of the clearance limitation on the railroad systems
of . the Satellite cot-ntrieso
b0 For the time beiri;, the "Txaffic ~Represe:station of the GD t", opened
on 5 Au;,ust in Vieriria,and manaC--;ed by Weiner Pohlert.~1 ~jUY of Or''~' o Lila it 0 Vi:i;+ 1:5 C'? ~t' I':i.'Qi1 .t1~1` 1'1 `S ^S GCZ?)11.:1,1 `. C'
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Additional T06- e].ee :.r is locomotives of the pre-war, damar ed
pool of .i oco io ti.ve .- :ire * to be reconditioned at RAW Dessau
and, to t aut i ntc rrervioe,
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elect ?ic to ;o,Fafiti.:s- including 87 1 --uls (Do Do) and E 41s
On. ID o) , fxo:n VE1:D+ I?::J Jt nr:r ;,dorf and prasur'nably * 13
v-ia, thd3 Ki.n..;=stry for Foreign and Dor.?estzc 't'rade. 5(1X1-HI IM
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to a) cI 5o :ro to be tested in 19b 1
ii. Due to t?le act raoy' tines ?'y hi, -h nuribex of c? :1a ;ec2 curb,: quick
repair o- fright ;,srs i:7 _beiig carried out. on the. newly
esti6li.:, .e,' w:crk , }eks at the. first priority railroad
stations (tested on Drejden-.Friedrichetadt switching station).
Beginnia1~;: 1 Ja.nua;,;? 1961, VVB.Landmaschinen- and Traktorenba.u
r will take over RAW . -oth The conversion of the ItA4 to Y
Landriasch.inenbau darted on 1 September 1960 with an
expenditure late. cf 25: r,nillion DII1 .
Cars whose home s-t:.tion; used to be M kW otha are re--assigned
,as follows:
P_is, cer. e::'. ,paax,, to RAW Potsdam
Frei(,-Lt Cars to RA';1 Magdeburg which is to become.
a pre,.Lir plant for twc-axle freight cars.
VED Wagtonbau (Wrlitz dccreloped a self-dischargin- ?freigkit
car, type de,ti(naiion KI Mort I,,.ry
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0rganizal;io?~t of ~'r~.ish r di.cal battalion.
Diagram of 1-1 ?:=o"1ic'ci divisioriaJ aic1 station.
Construction of for Joss b1, use as an ariiy
hospitals
II -East Ger:.:aJ
Stipply vehicles of the EGA (;.,pecin,? and . reticular vehicles),
i;flitary border croo pin ,~ t.Eaf is in Tune 1;60 : noluiied 26.
supply shipncnts and 13 rcvurn :phi,-
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