MISCELLANEOUS RAILROAD INFORMATION

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP82-00457R006500110001-4
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 14, 2016
• Document Release Date: July 16, 2002
• Sequence Number: 1
• Publication Date: December 21, 1950
• Content Type: REPORT

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1. During the month of Aup=t 1)50, the Reich: balri income from interzonal passenger
traffic amounted to DLI 668,5.11:3.00 (asst) and T 1 276,156070 (Last), During this
3a-ne period, inc ane from 82, 8 fares paid for travel by Soviet occupation
personnel amounted to DM 24l,t57.00 (East).
2.. `.here are three daily military passenger trains from the DDR to Brest-Litovsk,
two from Berlin, one from Pots.. 3m. The train numbers and scheduled t iie of
departure from the T)JR boundar.;. at Frankfurt/Oder are as follows :
From Berlin
No. 7l1lt.
leaves Frankfurt/Oder
0628
From Berlin
No. 7116
leaves rrsnkfurt/Oder
1150
From Potsdam
r 7o. 7102
leaves Fxan''.f::art/Odor
1618
3,.. On the average there is one , ilitary munitions train daily from the U.S.S.L
the DDR tiairi ch enters thr. ugii 7rarz'cfurt/O er. This train is n dc. up mostly
of box. cars and is hauled ;c.>;orally to .Jurzen or to Zeitz. llil:it?rry train:
used in troop movements to s.nd from the U.S.3. i. are hauled over ICfstriii ICiotz.
))a The naxrau gau.f e line runrr'.ng from Fffrrstenvralde to Beosl.ex7, via tse'-ionclorf,
2 etersdorf, Bad Saarovr, Saxotr Pieskoti7 and ii]S:rersdorf, , is used Cvea.oy other
day for passage of a tral.r load of munitions frx.i the so--called i.Iur>fa- 2abr=~a:.
This factory lies bety.1eeu Pioslcorr and ,iianersdorf. The train has a yu ysian
military guard.
5. The 2eichsbahn continnr^1 to haul regularly loaded cars from the Ttipchin potrder
factory.
6. The Iehrtor Dahnhof, -:assenger station in Berl..,n, is to be abandoned very
soon. The Anhelter Tahnhof, largest passenger station in Berlin, will also
be abandoned as soor a the necessary reorganization is accornplished. Both.
of these stations l.'.e in the western sectors of the city.
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This document is hereby regraded to
CONFIDENTIAL in accordance with the
totter of 16 October i07ti from the
Director of Central Intelligence to the
Archivist of the United States.
Next Review Date: 2008
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?~ To the list of freight control stations already announced, the station low
its to be added on the freight outer ring. These control stations ::+y established
to facilitate the carrying out of the provisions of the DDn law for ? he protection
of the econer.
8. A recent order from the '_'Zeichsbahn gonoral headquarters forbids fv- r:( or delivexy
at the present time of rail construction materials to Uectorn Berlin,
9. on 16 September 195C$ the IIaich.sbahn had on hand 237,300 tons of coal This
does not include the iron reserve trhich may not be touched -4thout concurrence
from the 3KK transi ort officer.
10'. 11 special office is being set up in the Ministry of Transport for the, control
of tai cars, including those privately-o d. It is expected that on Lauver-
iald will be appointed to head this office.
Under direct Heichsbahn control at present are 10,500 passenger coac'"hes,
7,,210 serviceable locomotives and 376 brigade locomotives. It has available
at present 29L refrigerator cars for use in importing fresh meat from Czecho-.
alovalda and Poland. About 40 of these are held in readiness daily for loading
in `These countries,
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