CHANGES IN THE STATUS OF SOVIET ZONE LOCOMOTIVE COLUMNS

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• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: November 9, 2016
• Document Release Date: May 21, 1999
• Sequence Number: 2
• Publication Date: October 8, 1951
• Content Type: REPORT

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CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY
INFORMATION REPORT
COUNTRY Gernany (Russian Zone)
SUBJECT Changes in the Status of Soviet
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ZoneA Locomotive Columns
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DATE DISTR. 8 Octobei 1951
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ThrouetilobvervatiOne and from officica r ailroad re-;:,c, Or (16
that 28 type..-50 locomotfi.vree were pzzrked mar fiucdnitz oia 16 ,hinv .190. .
at:ante-am ind.-(tfins iminent employntot of the loc:citaotivoa ;wirTh e,
sitive porte of tix) engine 14 I.Ve.rt) protected by oil aid ;,.:;0.31;
rode were removed,
al 10 June 1951? itw land that 20 locomative3,?, which bad becin
kept cold at other placee preBuguably Beeskow or ftuedoit%wrexpoctcd.
arrive in Frankfurt/Oder,
At 6 m on 13 J:Lne 1951? 22 loconotive3 returnina trout brigade.
v.t. the Frankfurt/Oder glar5hz,kling yard, allegedly to be thoroughly ovcrivztA
-mr.k would take from 6 to 8 dAye, (3,)
(Al 27 May tJ 3(minor repei:c Lihop) la Frankfurt/Oder was ordered to t;,v-,11:.-_,?,f't,A,tu
locomotivee with th.0..r assigned caboeeea to Lirest Litovak? Thz.p.
notified.
that the lo ur locomotive e would have to IVRIB a f.? r ae rve
LitevatU further notice.; Tho order VMS carried out on. the. le,v,we
If.)43omotiven being kept cold on 3 ?,111:koe 1951 included
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5 6 .6:A..i.3traeburg., Uck4mark.
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11-wo't4h obeervatton and from. official record3 of the Gottbuv
faAroa .quartm'a it wae ascerta:%oed on 29 May 1951 that the locc4o1A,z
Oeavtivated Locomotive Column No 9 arvt now being kept (mid t Klinerb
fition, 10 km neat of Foret, (7)
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rcird it wae loyarned in id-jurte 1951 that olt. c,f.
70 locomotives parked at the Fr it nkfurt/Oder marehaling yard:, 30 worQ
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re, On 8 June 19511, the locomotives of deactivated Locomotive Column No 7 were
still in Beeskow and Storkow. (9)
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(1) Refers to the locomotives of Locomotive Column No 3 deactivated in the fall
of 19910-
(2) The intended reinforcement of the four operational locomotive column in
Frankfurt/oder from the pool of reserve locomotives is reported for the
first time. The information requires confirmation. No indications of a
planned transfer of the locomotives parked in Ruednitz and Beeskow have
been observed. See paragraphs 1, 5 and 8 of the present report.
(3) This ie a routine procedure. After several transit missions the column
locomotives are thoroughly overhauled in railroad repair installations..
The departure, on 27 May, of a train of four AWlocomotivee to Brest
Litovsk was reported by armther eource. See
(5) ?rob . 14fers to the locomotives of deactivated Locomotive Column No 13.
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(6) The locomotives of deactivated Locomotive Columns No 6 and 12 are parked
In Straebur Uckermark and the neighboring Blumenhagen railroad station,
25X1A See . The etatement that 56 locomotives were parked
in .5tasburg 's ensiled to be due to an error in transmission or a
25X1A venfusion of source. The two deactivated locomotive columns had a t "45X1A
of 56 locomotives, which were previouely parked together in Strasburg.
3ce . Some of these locomotives were later traneferred
to t grirg Blumenhagen railroad station. See MIIIMIMMIL
nfty-six is thus the total of locomotives perked at both railroad stations.
(7) The intended transfer of these column reserve
'ort area was reported in mid-May 1951. See
into the Cottbus
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(8) This statemeni5i le; ?nnected with a similar report furniehed by another
eource. See . The locomotive mentioned are believed
to be reser s of operational Locomotive Columns No 2, 4, 5,
and 8 stationed in Frankfurt/Oder.
(9) RoW146 the locomotive reserve parked there since September 1990. See
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