MISCELLANEOUS RAILROAD INFORMATION

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• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP82-00457R006300180008-9
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• Document Page Count: 3
• Document Creation Date: December 14, 2016
• Document Release Date: February 9, 2001
• Sequence Number: 8
• Publication Date: November 30, 1950
• Content Type: REPORT

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C;OUNTRY GormEny (Russian Zone)
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On 1 October 1950, there were 986 locomotives in reserve. These
were administratively distribuW as follows:
Reichsbahn General Headquarter's 372
Reichsbahn Divisions (RBDs) 128
Reparations Brigades 353
Roceiving minor repairs and itdjustments laa
986
Of those locomotives in the fit two groupings, 20 were recentl:
taken out of reserve and moved to the area around 7lagdeburg for
the needs of the Soviet Army, They were withdrawn from re
for an indefinite period.
There are at present 794 in-slrvice locomotives. This includes
engines standing in round houlls for inspection. and 24-hour
repairs It does not include .:eserve locomotives.
All brigade locomototves in RBD 3erlin will stand at FrankfurtiOdr,,
Brigade 4 in Berlin-Lichtenber and brigade 7 in Berlin-KarishoroJ
are still in the process of beng liquidated. To provide for al:
the additional engines at Franurt/Oder, a huge new round house
is to be built in the railroad :ards. This round house will
a capacity of 150 engines and w. ..1 require the employment of
about 29000 persons.
The round houses at Leipzig-Nord slid Vattenberge were abandoned
on 1 October 1950.
The Reichsbahn coal supply for boto. locomotives and other main:Le.
nance purposes on 7 September 1950 ''las sufficient for 20.5 days,
The iron reserve provided for anotlor 17,1 days, This presents
a considerably improved fuel situation,
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The following stretches are being double-trackedg Frankfurt/Oder
to Mietrin, Berlin to Wustermark, Berlin to Seddin. The
Frankfurt/Oder-Kastrin line is nearly completed.
The rail yards at Wustermark and at Seddin are being widened.
The "Elsterbracke" rail bridge near Jocketa is at present being
reconstructed. The work is being rushed.
The so-called heavy duty freight trains (Schwerlastzage) generally
haul from 1,300 to 1,800 tons. A few pull up to 2,400 tons,
mainly coal and ore. These trains are usually made up in the
yards at Dresden-Friedrichstadt, although RBD Berlin is responsible
for the movement of heavy duty trains. Three selected engineers
from Halle, the "Aktivistenn fnu Heine, fnu Laake9 fnu Fritsche
are celled upon whenever an extra heavy freight is to be hauled,
10. Recently a siding along the line between Berlin-Lichterfelde/Ost
and Grossbeeren was designated as a through track. Upon examina-
tion, the condition of the roadbed was shown to be extremely
dangerous for traffic. In one spot it was found that 13 out of
15 ties within about thirty feet of track were completely rotted.
Nevertheless, RBD Berlin ordered the movement of passenger and
freight trains over the siding at a speed restricted to
25 kilometers per hour.
In running from Berlin-Pankow to Wustermark, over the outer freight
ring, both through and local freight trains require from 30 to
40 nours. The reason for this is a) insufficient yard trackage
at "iustermark, b) time lost during cargo checks at control points
set up in accordance with the new Law for the Protection of
internal Trade. Trains from Velten, Bernau, Oranienburg and
lines from the north to Berlin also require 30 to 40 hours to
mite this run because of delays on the outer ring.
ise. Your more heavy railway guns have been reported moving from Iildest
tn trains destined for the Soviet Union. The guns are camouflagel
as trench plows (Haldenpflage)0
sll immediately available -- those that can be spared -- box cars
are being sent to Frankfurt/Oder to be equipped for carrying
personnel.
11 Between 15 September and 7 October 1950, particularly heal, troop
movements took place from the area around Greifswald to the areas
around Yagdeburg and Erfurt.
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During the month of September 1950, reparations trains for the
Soviet Union left the DDR at the following points:
Border Po.int
Rostock and Stralsund (harbors)
Wismar (harbor)
Bad Schandau (via Czechoslovakia)
Guben, Forst, Horka
Frankfurt/Oder Zr.
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in addition to these, the following reparations trains were dis-
patched from the railroad divisions as shown, but border points
be Cetern:dned:
RBD Erfurt
RBD Halle
RBD Magdeburg
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This total a 1,255 .trains in the month of September represents
1,006,400 tons of reparations.
16, The RAW Rostock was turned over by the Reichsbahn on 1 September
1950 to the ITEB Diesel-Motorenwerk. All employees of the PAW
were taken over by the new organizatin, but were forbidden to
continue, to uear their old railway service work uniforms. The
Diesel-Motorenwerk is at present to both build new and repair
old marine engines. All unfinished matters affecting the trans-
fer from Reiensbahn must be completed by the end of the year.
RAW Stendal'nes taken over work orders assigned to the former
RAW Rostock,
17. For the eleven days, from 1 October 1950 to 11 October 1950,
f.nclusive, the interzonal passenger traffic yielded an income of
DM-141,889.(:)0 (Test) and DM-38,889.70 (East). The west mark
Income comeE, from travel between Western Germany and Western Berlin;
the east mark income comes from fares between Western Germany and
Eastern Berlin and Eastern Germany.
Former Reichsbahn President Kreikemeyer lies imprisoned in
Sachsenhausen. It has not yet been decided whether to make of
his case an example and have a big public trial in the usual
communist fashion or to quietly convict him.
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