SOVIET RTO ORDERS TO THE BERLIN REGIONAL RAILROAD HEADQUARTERS

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• Publication Date: December 28, 1950
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CENTRAL NTELLIGENCE AGENCY
(INFORMATION REPORT
Germany (Russian Zone)
SUBJECT Soviet RTO Orders to the Berlin
Regional Railroad Headquarters
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TINS BOCIREELIT CONTAINS INFORMATION APPICTINO TRU NATIONAL DEFENEC
OP TI14 UNITED STATES WITHIN TRU LIIIMINO OP THE ESPIONAGE ACT BO
U. I. C.. SE lUdD 32. AS AMEHOED. ITS TRANSMISSION OM TUB itIVELATION
OP ITS CONTENT? Ed ANT NACRES TO AS UNAIITNOE1211D PERSON IS PIO-
RIMED ST LAW. REPRODUCTION OP THIS ir0211 IS PEORIIIITED.
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THIS IS UNEVALUATED INFORMATION
1. Orders issued by the Soviet RTO at tho Perlin regional railroad
headquarters between 18 and 30 October 1950 have been summarized
as falows:
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a. Order No 310 of 18 October: Thirty-eve converted boxcars are
to be assembled at the Fterstenwalde railroad station, 7 con-
verted boxcars at the Satzkorn railroad station, and 9 converted
boxcars at the Luckenwalde railroad station by the mornitv of 22
October 1950. Twenty-two converted boxcars, each equipped with
four wooden-board beds, are to be assembled at the Fuerstenwalde
railroad station by the morning of 23 October 1950.
b. Order No 314 of 19 October: One column locomotive it; to 1:e fur-
nished in Waz to take Ito Poland at 4:30
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p.m. on 19 October. (1) Another 1pcomotive is required in Klotz
to pick up I,which arrives from Poland
at 5 p.m. on 19 October, and turn it over to the Cottbus Railroad
District in Grunow. (2) A third locomotive is required in Frank/
turt/Oder at 8 p.m. on 19 October to haul'
to ;erbig and turn it over to the Oreifswald aailroad District. 25X1
c. Order No 315 of 19 October: One tank car for light-colored liquid
fuel is to be dispatched to Puckow to be loaded there with h
erri-
eels by Derutra. Three tank cars aro to be dispatched to
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colored liquid fuel for elipment to Czechoslovakia. "
d. Order No 319 of 20 October: One column locomotive is to be made
available at the lietz railroad station at p.m. on 20 October
to pick up I Ifrom Poland and to haul it to
the Greifswame Railroad District via -,7erbig. (1)Another column 25X1
locomotive in required at the Klotz railroad station at about
midnight on 20 October to haull which
arrives from Neuzolle in the Cottbus alilroad District, to Poland. 25X1
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CONF1DENTiAL in accorchnee wi h the
letter of 16 October 1073 from' the
Div:xtor of Control Intelligence to the
Archivist of the upitso states.
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Order No 323 of 21 October: at the"AL
Neuruopin railroad ttation is to be dispatched to the Jummels-
burg railroad station, to be completely chocked there. The train
is subsequently to be dispatched to Juetorbog-Altes Lager where
it will be loaded at noon on 23 Oeeber. (4)
f. Order No 324 of 21 uotobor: Seven converted boxcars, 2 boxcars
and 66 flatcars are lo be assembled at the Neuruppin railroad
station for loading oa 28 Octobur. The converted boxcars rdll be
used for daytime operations and need not be capable of long-
distanoo runs.
g. Order No 326 of 23 October: One column locomotive is roouired at
the Klotz railroad station at 3 p.m. on 23 October to haul
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h. Order No 328 of 23 Octoblel ohich wae assembled 25X1
at the Rummelsburg railrcod station, comoosed of 21 two-axle coaches,
2 hooting cars, and 21 boocars, is to be sealed and dispatched to
arriro in Jueterboc at 8 a.m. on 24 Octobor.
i. Order No 329 of 23 October: One locomotive is required at the Frank-
furt/Ddor railroad station t 11 1.m. on 23 October to haul
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Fuerstenwalde. (5) Another loomotive is to be made available at the
Juotorboc-iates Lager railrml station at 10 a.m. on 21i uctober to
and haul it toward Falkenberg.
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j. Order No 330 of 214 October:
in the Berlin
Railroad District is to be brol-Jn up. its 5 kitchen cars, the train
conua/derts coach, the hospital car, and the two boxcars for ration
supplLes are to be turned over -o the L-agdeburg Railroad District.
(5) 7ho converted boxcars of thc train are to be reassigned as
roplocemont cars as follows: 10 va shuttle-train in Jueterbog-
Altoe Lacer, 5 to shuttle-train in aeuruppin, 5 to
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Kiotz. (6) and (7)
k. Onder No 333 of 26 Octob r: at the Frankfurt/ 25X1
Cder railroad station is to be furished with two converted boxcars
which are capable of long-distance operations and which are to be
thoroughly checked and ,rovided wr.h supplies, The train is then to be
dispatched to Juoterbog-Altes Lagen for loadino at noon on 27 uctober.
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station is to be dispowhed to erutormark at 4 p.m. on 26 October and
checked there as to itz mechanica' condition. (8)
ktt the :iustormcok railroad tation is to be sel,rnod over to the 25X1
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gagdeburg railroad district at 7 1.m. on 26 Octobor,
1. Order ao 334 of 26 Ootobor: Your rtrigerator cars are to be withdrawn
from operations and ournod over to the Loodoburg R.ilroad District on
27 October for trans ,artinc not, which 25X1
were loadod at the Jooterboo-ert:s ,nor railroad statioo, are to be
dispatched to the Na' lo Lailroact :11;trict by 10 o.m. cm 26 Uctobor. (9)
m. Order No 337 of 27 October: One l000motive is required in Eiote at 3
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the Grdfswalde icrilroad OiStciet Via -erldc, to Ooland, nother loco-
motive is to bo made Lvailalle in Juetrbopg-Oltos Lager at 10 aoa. on
2C October to haul 'toward Pa) kenbero. (8) 25X1
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no Order No 340 of 27 October: Tvo winterized boxcars each are to be
made available in Luckenvalde and Rathonow for loading at 4 p.m.
on 28 October.
o. Order No 342 of 23 October: Five rofricerator cars are required in
Jueterof;-Altes Lager by 30 October.
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p. Order No 343 of 23 October: at the Rummdbburg 25X1
railroad station is to be thorouohly checked and, after being pro-
vided with suiplies and two additional winterized boxcars, diseatched
to the Juoterbog-Altes Lager railroad station by 6 p.m. on 30 October.
q. Order No 344 of 23 October: Tho commander of in 25X1
Rathenov is to be issued 63 lanterns from military stocks by 1 November.
(10)
r. Order No 350 of 30 Octobor: The loading of tea refrigerator curs with
perishable foodstuffs at the railroad station on Leninalloo, Berlin,
will be completed on 30 october. The cars are to be dispatched to
Roepeniek? where they will be: coupled to 'for ship-
ment to eildpark. (11)
2. gxtracts from the register of the main train dispatch office on 24 and 30
October 1950 have been summarized as follows:
a. ntry of 24 October: The rails and ties south of the platforra of the
Sachsanhausen railroad station were heavily damaged by tanks crossing
the tracks. The branche.off point to Oranienburg is blocked. The tank
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causing the damage
b0 intry of 30 October: Couplings of ammunition train
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Delzig and porno. The line is blocked. (13)
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(1) Compare wi i information by another source who observed
withtroo s running as stated in the present report
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other sources.
(3) ehettle-train I Iua8 seen on the Jueterbog-Kuestrin line on 20 October
easeing through 4uostrin
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to Jueterboo on 23 October,
land on the same days0
line between
was observed on the Mlestrin-Cottbus line by two
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soldiers had left Juotorbog for the U.S.S.R. via
Order to 329, however, indicates that the train left the
zone via Kuestrin rather than via Cluben0
was previously identified only on 12 October.
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Ivith 56 boecars carrying 25X1
aubon on 24 October0 oee
an route from Guben to Falkenberg, and
em Jueterhog-Altos Lager to natnenow on tnat ay0F--1
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aormarly via uuben for the second time on 23 October and was subso luontly
broken up.
25X1 (6) I 6 of 10 converted boxcars, was formed in Rathenow on
3 October and (dspatched to Juoterbo2.
sin 23 Octob:-:r, 2 and 9 November, the train -7%e seen en route from Resslau
'the train was
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to Jueterbog, carrying Malta personn110
was assembled in deuruppin on 13 October,
in Doeboritz0
kith six boxcars was obsrved on the Doeberitz-Bad
nirinw.'11Arz 1inr4 ,In 21 JC.LnINnr nmA 1 Jnlin-11,1-
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(7) It appears that a reserve of rolling stock ,:fs formed in Kistz
for the duration of the shuttle-transportation program to re-
place any defective cars of shuttle-trains.
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1 wont from
rranl inn/odor to duet,erbog on 27 jetoLer,
and that shuttle-train
1 Hont from ilkenberg to Juoterhog
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and continued empty to
";ustermark,,
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This provious or= ion was substantiated
by the -oresent report.
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(9)
Iwas formed on 3 October.
It wat; soon goinf: from
ho direction of Falkentorg to Juatertog
on 2C Octobers from lieins-
dorf to Jueterhog on 2 Jovember and from the direction of nlkenborp.
to Juetorbor; on 13 Nov:mber.
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(10) ahuttlo-train
the repatriation of soviet
prosumably used for
dopondents,
travoled from datitnow to
Jueterbog on 13 Asovnboro
oresumalAy already loaded, and subseluently
left Juetorbo for
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(11) The
shuttle-trains not commented upon
wore mentioned in other reports
of October 1950, but they wore operating at times other than those
stated in the present report.
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(12) a component
unit of the 6th Oda Lecz
oiv,
(13) The
came ammunition train was
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obs.rved
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