RAILROAD TRANSPORTATION AND CONSTRUCTION

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP82-00457R007800300003-7
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 27, 2016
• Document Release Date: November 6, 2013
• Sequence Number: 3
• Publication Date: July 17, 1951
• Content Type: REPORT

Declassified in Part- Sanitized Copy Approved forRelease2013/11/06 : CIA-RDP82-00457R007800300003-7
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COUNTRY Poland
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The Krakow.PrzegorsI4war railroad line has a broad -gauge track between
Lwow, Nedyka? Przemyel, and Zurawica, and a standard-gauge track between
Mesciska, Przemysl, and Krakow. Transhipment stations are At Mosciska
and Zurawica. The "passenger etation" has five tracks laid out in the
following order from the loading platform: broad-gauge, standard-gauge
broad-gauge: standard-gauge, and standard-gauge. The fixed permanent
loading platform is made of concrete and measures 50 x 350 400 meters.
The station is used mainly for transloading tanks, artilleryi ammunition
and military vehicles arriving in Poland from the Soviet Union or proceeding
through Poland to East GerMagy, During October 1950, numerous military
trucks passed through this point.
2. The Zurawica marshalling yard is one of the largest in Poland, having over
100 tracks. It is located a distance of approximately l to 2 km. from
Zurawica in the direction of Ractvmno. The marshalling yard was extended
considerably by the Germans during the war, and subsequently by the Poles.
It has alternating stahdard and broad gauge tracks, between which there are
long, narrow concrete platforms used for transloading goods. Several small
cranes are between the tracks. The goods arriving from the Soviet Union
consist maidky of iron and grain; ehipments to the Soviet Union are or coal
and of iron and other metal goods.
3. On the Erakow.-Tarnew sector of the Krakow-Przemysl line, the existing short
rails are being exchanged for others twice their length. Now rails and oak
sleepers have been piled up along the whole of this sector. It is believed
that exchange of rails will be carried out on the entire length of the
Krakow-Prsemysl line.
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4,, A single track is in operation between Tarnobrzeg and Majdan? and a track
between Majdan and Rzeszow is now under construction. The Germans built an
embankment and culverts on the latter sector. There is only a motor coach
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service in operation between Rzessow and Kolbuszowa.
5. Construction of the Podiaze-Mogila line in the Krakow area continues. Earth
and concrete works are nearing completion, but no rails have been laid as yet.
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