RAILWAY STOCK OF THE DDR

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP82-00457R007400510005-3
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 14, 2016
• Document Release Date: March 22, 2000
• Sequence Number: 5
• Publication Date: May 1, 1951
• Content Type: REPORT

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COUNTRY Germany (Russian Zone)
SUBJECT Railway Stock of the DDR
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The railroads of the Eastern Zone have a total of 5723 steam loconotivc s, of
which 3326 are in operating condition. These locomotives are assigmd as
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Berlin 459
Cottbus 241
Dresden 596
Erfurt 461
lire-if swald 1014
Halle 626
Tlagdeburg 554
Schwerin 202
2. Aiaong the locomotives are 376 column locomotives (Kolonnenloks) of which 328
ae ; in oiler. ating corrdition (types 50,52,01,42) . There are 471 light locorao..
tines of which only 225 are in operating condition. Besides, the East Zone
railroad has a number of foie_i_rn-cake locomotives of which only 36 are in
operating condition.
3. The li Hite dust locomotives tfiich a---e being converted in the r) 7 Stondal are
still undergoing tests. Final results depend on the completion of a locomotive
tenting car. No experiments have as yet been mac'o with bituminous coal dust.
4,~ All maintenance and repair work suf ers from a shortage of materials, especially
soot pipe:, tires, and cotters (Splints). Coal supplies are 1ov.
5? According to a statement of the deputy, director-. noral, the arrival of 9,000
freight cars is e:,-pocted from the Fast, so that the maintenance schedule will
be increased by 61000 G2 and 1,500 each of G14 and G5 catc,gorics.
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6 According to a report of the railroad aftinistration of the Eastern Iona of
3 z 'e7bruary 1%0, the freight car park consists of 73,750 operating cars (17,323
Radod and 31,427 oupty cars),, an average of 14,40 cars needing repairs, 195
h 1i ctkd car,,,,, 1 i,: }7' cars for ,special use, and 1,629 cars in ]serve. Some
1 3x000 cars are in foreigti countries, Tfaile G,0C)0 cars are to be disassembled
for sa iva (' .
7v The stock of cars for railroad personnel, amounts to 6,0145. It is e ;ti, Zteed
that duri ; Uie course of the your 1,000 of these cars will have to be painted
and 2x000 given a general cleaning.
fit. In addition to freight cars, there are approximately 3,600 narrow-gauge freight
cars and 750 narsrav-gauge passenger car,
9. In 1-:fag future, freighit cars will be divided into categories, similar to those
of passenger cars, and allotted to the various railroad maintenance shops.
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