LOCOMOTIVE SITUATION

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP82-00457R000200320005-3
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: November 9, 2016
• Document Release Date: February 2, 1999
• Sequence Number: 5
• Publication Date: December 27, 1946
• Content Type: IR

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CENTRAL iNTELL1GENCE GROUP
tNTELLIG.ENCE REPORT
COUNTRY Gerlilarvituasian Zone
Locomotive Situation
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"The locoaotive situation is unsatisfactory. The momOer of
dauaoed locoraotilics hes increased. The order to -allocate the locomotives
to definite locolotive personnel his not Leen carried out. The reason
for this and the offendinG manaccents have to be determined'. i;;.aj. L4;n.
i'vashnin has threatened heavy penalties for the offenders.- The order has
to Oe carried. out under all circumstances.
The exo-d.oitation of locoaotivc is bad. In Thuritia, for in-
rotanee, sixtT-five locoaotiA:es ona:; sl,oted u perfori..ance of seven to
kilo-toters arid seventy-to loco.aotives only nineteen kilometers. A
6raph has to be prepared for the exploitation of locomotives. In i,u(1e-
'ouro the lecouotives suiler consiooraol fro tie hardness, of the water.
(ins .Locohlot. shoted an em?L layer of deposi::. aJOter 1,300 ka. The water
Xi ,dcOurb MU5t, ht. sofz,ened che:oically or Plitered.
'0n 15 L.(pLtoober the ..iiector-ooneval ol the depart-Lent
aliii1.ith locouotives relowted ,;() the preoldent or the ,entral dmin-
istration for IrkJ11c as folloos, in oonoectJon i.ithueneral hvashnin's
eoLq.laints:
locomoti),,4 EitoolAoli i t-oe hu,;ziko2 4.one, after stk years
or TJ,P, W6S ver bad. Of the 6,700 1)soinotives (excludint5 those for
000t trains for tki the vo-culled "twonnenloks") u daily averaGe
e .100 waL- ansrvioeublc. on the orders oo the;o.oki in iJay iJ46 the
loco.,_otives tore F,uodivled into a "serviceale park" and a "dama6ed
Loc000tlocr(o which could not bo used until repairs were wade by
neichs nopatr ;oho.es (hi) and the "rouncLuouszs" (LI.) tore allocated
to the "daused prk". The LALIber of locomotives in the "serviceable
perk" tas 3,207 of tilich 22.Z. were in need or repairs. This Group of
serviceable locduotives has since insxleased t 3,64C, but, in spite of
all pos4b1e effortr, 31.2- of those are in need of repairs, so that the
actual number of locomotives which can be aced 14s not increased aporeci-
? ably. The rea.,,on LE that tiv. raninum monthlz, repairs of cate6orios
L3 and L4 cannot be fulfulled, owin_ to the shortaGo of .laterials. 1..ur-
60:vc--, a 1are nuoiber of loeol.lotivf)s is elloed to run even loner
than in wav.-timc lthoot .:000per or arrj oxa:Afultf.on so that eventually
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repuirs are heoLvier. It 1(1t be :Added G1-t uc of the locoTotives
comino in for L3 and L4 14,4AAirs r,re requisitioned us "Al.olonnenlokomotim
von", in addition, 4'!0 steam lo,:u,notives hue so fz,r, been delivered to
the "Last", and -ore are -untinuull-;, t;oini;, 1.1oEt1y 1:ivi locomotives in
good condition. .vortl/circ? tap; cLgiver.sion of elccLric trains to steam
In Centrul kierAian fr. m 14arch 1:346 onwards (Ln 200 electric locomotives
were hanUed tu the LoviLt') 1/av ::fauz,ed a Lurrespondin drz,in on availablo
steai locomotives.ll cn xis .in,, Iocomo)Avcs xatve inert-,L6ed
in consequence, althou,Lh 1inst 9,C40,0U0 locolaotiveskiloweters cuvcred
in January 1946? the July 10416 :t)crioralunce was 13,900000Q locodiotile
kilolleters, i.e nn incrose of fq,.
mihe irrc,alf,r rznninl; f loco?autives mskos repalrs very diffi-
cult. L)peclul diiLicultx in connection Lit', freiht loconotivoz3,
the .van,lin tilJt;s or Yklit.= are 1.-;,cleulble, otin to ti.e. conversion of
stretches to sfrl?lc 'Liric-tables arc t,xceedvd by 60-70, and sodictims Lc 200, ."
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