IMPROVEMENT OF RAILROAD LINES AND INSTALLATIONS

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• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP83-00415R010600230002-6
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 5
• Document Creation Date: December 16, 2016
• Document Release Date: December 20, 2004
• Sequence Number: 2
• Publication Date: February 28, 1952
• Content Type: REPORT

COUNTRY
SUBJECT
uerxaany (Russian 'Lone)
Improvement of RailVoad Lines
and Installations
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the
following construction projects are scheduled:
a. Wuh1heide_Mar?3g. Yards It is on the Berlin Outer
Freight Ring between the lines to'Erkner and to
Strausberg and is 6 km long. Three tracks in the
receiving yard; about 12 cross-over tracks; 3 to 5
outgoing lines; a temporary locomotive servicing
installation consisting of a coal dump, a swing crane,
a cinder pit and a water tower. (1) The amount of
15 million eastmarks required for construction work
to be done in 1952 had not yet been approved. (1)
b, Guben Hairoad_Station,,.A locomotive maintenance shop.
This project is connected with the Foundry Combine
East. (2)
c. Z tendd -Mixdorf-GrunQL_R ilr~o3d Linea This project
has been postponed until 1953.
d. Connectin--Curg_ngar Ebersvualde, ntheGref aald
ailraacl_liistrict~ Work on this project is behind
schedule. No excavator.was available by 15 November.(4)
A second connecting curve is scheduled for construction
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near Angermuende so that traffic from Bad Freienwalde to
Templin via Oderberg, Chorin and Britz will not have to
pass through the Angermuende railroad station. (5)
e. Rail Link near Neustrelitz, This link, which connects the
Berlin-Neustrelitz and Wittenberge-Neustrelitz railroad lines
will make Rechlin airfield accessible without time-consuming
shunting operations at Neustrelitz railroad station.
f., Single_TrackReconstruction of_the_Lietzow-L3inz,-Railroad_Lne,.
This project is motivated by the fact that the former Kraft
lurch Freude (Strength through Joy) health resort located
between the'two places mentioned is to be occupied by sea
police. (6)
g.
Single Trick Reconstruction f~tke_Prenzlau-Tem,plinRailroad
Line,, The former course of the line is to be improved. T7)
h.
Connecting Curve near Wusterm ark,. Work on this project
has
already begun and is scheduled for completion in 1951.
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2. Herr Gruber, president of the Cottbus regional railroad headquarters,
at a conference held on 6 October 1951 with representatives of the
Cottbus regional railroad headquarters and the Government of Land
Brandenburg, stated that the construction of a railroad maintenance
shop in Guben was planned for 1952. The cost for this project was
estimated t 17 million eastmarks and the new installation would
have a work orce of 1,000 men. (2)
a. In mid-October 1951, the Bauunion East contracted to construct
the 'YWuhlheide marshaling yard. The construction firm had started
work on the preparation of the various construction sites. At
this date, only leveling work between the Biesdorf and }uhlheide
railroad stations had been done. (1)
b. The Ziltendorf freight station, which serves the Foundry Combine
Last, is scheduled to be connected by several tracks to the
Guben-Frankfurt/Oder trunk line. The freight station is to be
equipped with 27 tracks and 8 arrival and departure tracks each.
Previously only 6 main tracks and 2 or 3 arrival, and departure
tracks were available at the station. The completion date of
this project is November/December 1952.(9)
c. It continued to be difficult to procure the rails for the second
track of the Frankfurt/Oder-Guben railroad line. Of 21 km of
rails required for the Frankfurt/Oder-Neuzelle line section in
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the Berlin railroad district, only 3 km could be obtained
by 9 November. For this reason, source believes that the
fixed completion date of 30 November 1951 would, not beee&
met. (10)
25X1 d. work on the construction of,a second track
80,km long, was to be started before the end of 1952. This
project would require the widening of the railroad embankment
and the corresponding improvement of bridges and railroad
stations on this line. (11)
4. The connecting curve near Eberswalde cannot be completed before
early 1952 because the excavator required is not available. (4)
5. On 7 November 1 1
the Seddin construction project would not be
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ties and small iron fittings, the opening of the southern group
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until the spring of 1952. The situation at Wustermark marshaling
yard was said to be similar. (12)
6.. On 19 October 1951,1
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or ties depot by order of the Directorate General, Railroads,
Berlin. A total of 80,000 beech-wood and 40,000 pine-wood ties
are stored there.?6ource was told that only new ties were
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henceforth to be used. (13)
M 7. In late September 1951, the Ministry of Traffic approved the
dismantling of the Bergwitz-Kemberg railroad line in the Halle
railroad district. The dismantled rails are to be installed on
more important lines. (14)
8. The first rails manufactured by the M-ax-e-tn Dy In Unterwellenborn
have been installed on the second track near TNiesenburg. The rails
previously delivered by this firm were defective and showed cracks
after being in use only for a short time.. (15)
- 9? the Berlin regional railroad headquarters that
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railroad line-was postponed to 20 December 1951. (10)
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(2) The establishment. of an additional railroad maintenance shop 'for
,,locomotives' in Guben appears credible in ' connection with the
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Fuerstenberg/Oder.
25X1 (3) Owing to a shortage of construction materials, the execution of
this project has been postponed several times.
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25X1 (5) This project is reported or the first time. The1rail link would
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(6) The reconstruction of the single track
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line was not included in the 1952 construction plan.
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The reconstruction of this single track railroad,line, which was
dismantled by the Soviets has been planned for a long time.
The construction plan or the Ziltendorf industrial railroad
station was transmitted previously.
e completion date of
as project had to be postponed .severa times because of a
shortage of rails.
In 1950, the single track Rathenow-Loewenberg.railroa.d line was
converted to,the status of a main line so that it can be used as
an extension of the northern section of the Berlin Outer Freight
Ring. With regard to the shortage of rails, it appears improbable
that a second track on this line will be built in the near future.
The project was not included in the 1952 construction program.
The improvement of these two important marshalin yards was.
reported previously.
Zernsdorf near Koenigswus er aus.en is the central ties ,depot of
the Soviet Zone railroads. The depot-has an impregnation plant.
The stocks of 120,00.0 ties, reportedly available there,'appear
to be rather low, as 1,600 ties are required for I 'km of trackage.
The stocks would be adequate for 75 km of trackage. The Soviet .
Zone railroad system has 13,000 km of tracks; the stocks reported
would therefore cover only 0.5 percent of the railroad net,
The Max pun ry in n erwe. en orn near Saalfeld is-the only
installation producing rails in the Soviet Zone of Germany. The
quality wa.s,substandard and the quantity was inadequate..Wiesenburg
is on the Berlin-Magdeburg/Dessau trunk line.
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