MISCELLANEOUS RAILROAD INFORMATION

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP82-00457R009000140008-6
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: September 24, 2012
• Sequence Number: 8
• Publication Date: September 25, 1951
• Content Type: REPORT

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it was announced that aqinc to the
poor condition of tracks' in the Sovfet Zon-2 the spo-d limits had to be
reducedc. Up to now th,3 Soviet ?,one railroad syl'oem had been able t 50X1-HUMo
maintain operations by using u-) olc na;erlal. This wkls no longer possible
and the rails manufactured at the lit ' in Unterwellenborn
had proved to be utterly unusa)leo furtherore 50X1-HUM
switches were a critic-11 tern too. (I) it v-as also announ,
cd that trains on the forst-GU)en rail-road linen which was reconstructed
from pieces of rails 7,alded to:froth:Dr, could be operated at a naKfi.mum
speed i only DO km/h because ha rail woild break near the joints. (2)
the
issuing el tickets to and from the railroad stations listed below were to
suspended immediately:
Neumuehle on the Elster River
Oreiz
Creiz-Aubachthal
Greiz-Doelau
Yoh:i.adorf (61)
Zeulenrsda
Triees
ohe-JIledben
Schn:3nt113
"::,oitech.Hol_enieuben
31
these
railroad Ftaticns were lecato nea:: nines lpera:,;sd by the ismut Aoa,
(3)
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4. On 18 and 19 August till, red.
CLASSFICIATION
r:Alroad headquarters in 3or1in ordered
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SECURITY INFORMATION
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that checks on the sutability of ccnJr.th cazs f.Dr transit use be
accelerated and that a:;1 such cars c,apable of transit opartions be
dispatched to Frankfur:VOder immediatelyo
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it had been ordered that all gondol cars ritab-e icys rransit eperaticrls
wern to be turned over in Frankfurt/Oder by 10 on 29 Auf,? It
was later ordered by telephone that this 'oparatinn was exteDded uatil
8 September. (4)
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(1) s 11 orEiErin throws sicacant cn the difficult cla4srial
supply situation of the Fov:!_et Zoas flaiircade The poor qualif of the
rails produced at the huotter the only relliaL mill in the soviet Zone
was reported previously,
(2) The reconstruction of isi:roadline was reported
previouslyr,
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(3) The railroadstaoions mentioned .oa the Cera-Creiz-Plauen tnd Cora-
Zeulenroda-Plauen raiircad line's, in the area north of Plauen, They are
located in the western :,Eactien 511 'tho uranium ore xining
Similar measures were previously- ren,l-tso c- ,rith the eastern
portion of this distric
(4)
Empty gondola cars have been dp,.itc!led to the est aince June ipri with
sporadic interruptions:, Tre cars are used for tho rratPrials
to Soviet Zone industrinl.plants. Lcordinr, to Sov.:let or railroad
slandardsj: a car is suita'Dlerartransl.b *87c...Y.;ions if ._?to measo,rements,
cundition and operationcl safelv 49ro up to iaternatonalrajlrn regulatic.s
and thus may bo used outde its hoc countYv-. Suitabiity for transit
use, in this context, does not n,..vire a conversion of the
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