SOVIET EASTBOUND FREIGHT TRAFFIC LEAVING FRANKFURT/ODER

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• Document Creation Date: December 27, 2016
• Document Release Date: September 19, 2013
• Sequence Number: 11
• Publication Date: May 16, 1951
• Content Type: REPORT

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TCC______ Sov:t Eastbound Freia,ht Traffic Leavin7. Frankfurt/Oder
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A tabulation of SovLet eastbound freight traffic leaving
Frankfurt/Oder is Oxen below. It could not be determined
whether all these trains were dispatched from Frankfurt/Oder
directly to Brest-Litovsk or whether some of them were also
directed via Kuestrin-Kietz, possibly to Gerdauen. *
a. 30 narch 1951: eleven trains left the marshaling yard
and one train the Frankfurt/Oder passenger station. Of
the total there was: one train of loaded boxcars totaling
122 axles; one train, 114 axles, of flatcars with
sideracks loaded with narrow-gauge railway cars and
boxes, and 21 refrigerator cars; one train, 112 ax7es,
of flatcars loaded with boxes and steel girders, and
8 nevi tank cars; one train, 120 axles, of tank care;
and three empty trains.
b. 5 April 1951: ten trains left the marshaling yard and
two the passenger station. Of the total there was:
one train, 116 axles, of flatcars with sideracks loaded
with narrow-gauge locomotives and boxes, and boxcars;
one train, 110 axles, of boxcars; one train, 114 axles,
of boxcars loaded with machine parts; one train, 113
axles, of boxcars; one train, 112 axles, of flatcars
with sideracks loaded with 3 conveyor belts, boxes, and
steal girders; one train, 120 axles, of flatcars with
sideracks loaded with 22 narrow-gauge railway cars and
boxes, ia addition to boxcars.
c, 6 April 1951: fourteen trains left the marshaling yard.
Of the total there vas: one train, 114 arics, of boxcars:
one train, 110 axles, of flatcars wit sideracks loaded
with 3 narrow-gauge railway cars and 2 cranes, in
addition to boxcars loaded with boxes; one train of
16 refrigerator cars; and four empty trains.
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d. 7 April 1951: ten trains left the marshaling yard
and one the passenger station. Of the total there
was: one train, 110 axles, of flatcars with sideracks
loaded with steel girders, boxes, and 3 excavators,
in addition to boxcars; one train, 116 axles, of
boxcars; one train, 124 axles, of boxcars loaded with
machine parts; one train of 15 new express train
coaches; one train, 114 axles, of gondola cars.
e. 8 April 1951: twelve trains left the marshaling yard
and two the passenger station. Of the total there
was: one train, 116 axles, of boxcars; one train,
112 axles, of boxcars loaded with machine parts;
one train, 120 axles, of tank cars; one train, 116
axles, of flatcars with sideracks loaded with 10
narrow-gauge railway locomotives and boxes, in
addition to boxcars; one train, 110 axles, of flatcars
with sideracks loaded with steel girders and boxes
in addition to boxcars and 7 tank cars; three empty
trains.
f. 9 April 1951: nine trains left the marshaling yard
and two the passenger station. Of the total there
was: one. train, 112 axles, of flatcars with sideracks
loaded with boxes, in addition to boxcars; one train,
116 axles, of boxcars loaded with machine parts; one
train, 124 axles, of boxcars; ? one train. 114 axlesi
of flatcars with sideracks loaded with boxes, steel
girders and 22 trucks; one train, 116 axles, of tank
cars.
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lemma, It is possible that trains leaving the 50X1-HUM
Frankfurt/Oder marshaling yard were directed across the
Kuestrin-Kietz border crossing point on the reconstructed
single-track Boossen (0 53/V 53)-Reitwein (0 53/V 63)-
? Kietz (0 53/V 66) railroad line. 50X1-HUM
This line is used when the Frankfurt/Oder border 50X1-HUM
crossing point is overburdened.
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