ECONOMIC INFORMATON: CONDITION OF RAILROAD BETWEEN NANKOU AND KALGAN

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• Publication Date: January 29, 1947
• Content Type: IR

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CENTRAL 1NTELL GENCE GROUP
INTELLIGENCE REPORT
SUBJECT Economic-Informationt Condition of Railroad
between Nankou and Kalgan
ORIGIN
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BRARY COPT'
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DIST. 29 January 1947
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Nankoll (1]! 64c14.) to K4AWINMOL(115sPePeelli
Source traveled by train, and reports that the new stretch of track between
these two towns is complete, but is of temporary construe tion. Bridges are
made of piles of ties. Sleepers are still lacking stone fill to keep them
fire; they are unevenly laid and are insufficient in number. Freight cars
have been converted to telephone and wireless stations. At various points
along the line source observed overturned and fire-gutted freight cars which
had lain there since the previous Nay.
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The railroad station is badly damaged, but is under repair. . Source observed
that doors and windows had been remoeed from the station* He was informed
by the station master that the Communists had done this. Rail insta125X1x
lat ions were damaged. .(Source was informed by the station nus ter that this
was a result both of Nationalist berthing and ommunist demolitions. The let-
ter took the form of pulling up rails and burning sleepers* There wa25X1 X
a total of 50 cars at Kangcbuang, mostly empty, but some loaded with rails
and sleepers. Trains arriving from Huailai (115-45 40e20) carried both civil-
ian and military traffic, but not full loads ngirser? wh25X1 X
were 'supervising rail repairs; they appeared to source to be efficient and
hardworking; one of them had had a:year's experience on an American railroad*
(This man said that because of the deserted condition of Kangehuang, laborers
to repairthe railroad have been imported from Peiping and Kalgan. Some sol-
diers are also being used. 25X1X
3. KangsIlumg to linailai..(11/43,&40-2_21
a. Source, traveling by train, observed a total of about 40 ears at varietas
points along this stretch of line. At Haailai he Observed About 50 oars At
the railroad station.
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b0 The railroad station suffered the same sort of damage as that at Kangchuang
as a result of Nationelist bombings and Communist demolitions. Other buildings
in the vicinity are generally undamaged except for the removal of doors and
windows,
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Trains are apparently not mining along this stretch as source aide the trip
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railroad was "only about one-fourth destroyed", and tar, not so bad as the
part between Hsiahugyuan and Hsuahua, He stated that a gang of repairmen
is working from Huailai tomard Hslahuayuan and hopes to meet a similar rAng
which is workin7, eastward from hsuanhua teward Hsiahuayuan. He farther stated
that repairs made to date are purely of an emergency cLaracter, the bridges
beim?, tormrarr ones. Permanent restoration will have to amait some indefinite
25X1X future date. At lisiahuayuan tho railroad station and yard sustained
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the same sort of damage as previously observed at other rail townn.
tower is toppling badly.
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25X1X had some opportunity to observe the rail-
road en route. any of the brid7ps were blown; many rails pulled up; many
power poles knocked down, burned, or smashed; power lines were cut; ties were
burned, or in SOMG cases simply removed and placed in piles, (Parsons in the
area stated that the t,orniqunists had done this with the intention of burningr
them? but for sore reason failed to set them on fire, Nov;45X1A
Reference is rade to the statement of the engineer in paragraph 4.) Source
obeerved that the railroad eas undoreoine repairs. -any gangs of repairman
were in evidence and laborers were seen cutting down trees for ties, Train-
loads of ties aril raile and truckloads of repair materials were in evidence.
The railroad stations an asuanhea and 3ha11ngtzu (114-56,40-41) are badly
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According to the engineer reported in paragraph 2, this line is severely
damaged and restorationrwill require two months. Gangs are working from
both directions., ,:ost of the rails can be unbent, but some new rails and
sleepers will be required.
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