TRAINS, SHOPS AND STATIONS OF CZECH RAILWAYS

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP82-00047R000200560004-3
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 27, 2016
• Document Release Date: April 5, 2013
• Sequence Number: 4
• Publication Date: March 13, 1953
• Content Type: REPORT

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1? The normal size of freight trains is 120 axles, or 60 cars. On the Prague-Bohumin
line, where traffic is heavier, trains normally have 140 axles. Most cars have two
axles, 'weighing 10 to 12 tons sn~ty and carrying 11 to 20 tons of load. in general,
the box oars carry 13 tons and thhae open oars 20 tons. The new two-axle oorwi car
weighs 18 tons and carries 30 tons load.
2, The main locomotive workshops are as far as I can reoallt
Pilsen Trnava
Ceoka Trebova Vrutki
Ceske Velenice Zilina
Nymbork (for steam and Diesel units)
.I. nave no information of the productivity at the various shops.
10, Locomotives are assigned to particular terminals aoeording to the requirements of
each station, All stations are different, and have different numbers of l*cctives,
Every station bas three or four extra locomotives to serve in case extra, non-
sche-duled trains are required, or to substitute for emergency brea7kdowns.
Coaling is done at most terminals from a coal elevator Average 1oeomo-
Lives were fueled daily, the elevator had to handle between 60 and 420 to= per day,
Until 1418, coaling re~/quired a_ grew of 10 men, b_ 4~t ostwar fficiencioo have re-
duced t e crews to- six men wox+isin in 12-boutl fts, if the elevator faila, sectra
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men must be called'in to complete coaling by hand; about ten extra men would suffice.
6. The chief railway bottlenecks lie, not in -individual bridges or mountain passes but in
most of the big cities. Rail facilities are cramped and crowded, and because they are
surrounded by built-up areas, they have no room to expand. This congestion is a hind-
rance to all yard, station and shop operations.
7. I know that freight is transloaded from standard to broad gauge rolling stock near the
Soviet frontier, but have no detailed information on existing or projected transloading
stations.
I have no biographic information on high. officials of Czechoslovak industry or transpor-
tation, chiefly because these people are replaced so frequently that it is difficult to
keep up with the changes.
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