REORGANIZATION OF THE EAST ZONE TRAFFIC SYSTEM

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• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP82-00457R003600110010-3
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• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 6
• Document Creation Date: November 16, 2016
• Document Release Date: March 7, 2000
• Sequence Number: 10
• Publication Date: October 7, 1949
• Content Type: REPORT

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TOPIC fee srr'tz3.i.HS~ ..ors of t1i i--;ast Zone Traffic S)vste~ia
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25X1X1 < S3,1A Order concerning a mobi-
lization of the "lnniar Reserves" with a view to meeting: the
.requirements In. the field of materials of the aviet Gone
traffic sy.stem (rail, road and water traffic).
Soviet Nilitspy Administration, Germany
Traffic-Division
k' lanning .Department
BERLIN, 31 May 1949.
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Chief of Traffic !Sain Administration within the German
t.cononrics Commission.
With a view to systematically mobilizin`; the "inner Reserves"
1 propose that the following xieasures be taken in 1949:
ao Railroad operations.
(1) With the approval of the SJ.11,, Traffic Administration, the
spur tracks leading to former military installations and
plants of the war industry &1nd the tracks of the little used
lines and railroad stations are to be dismantled to be used
for the repair and :uaintenance of tree tracks on maih lines.*
(2) i,'ifty kilometers of heavy-type rails on little used
railroad lines are to be e.xchansed for li;TZhter type. rails
and the reAloved rails are subsequently to be utilized for the
reconstruction of the second track on main lines.
( ) Rails and frog pieces, connections and other pertinent
,naterlals are to be gathered for further welding and proses--
sin:a, in the workshops. The capacity of the rail welding
Plants and of the switch plants in BERLIN, COTI]A and at other
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places is to be 1,-,pro?ee.L.
(4) .:7we ties of the (ta: mntlec~ ra tlroad lines will be col.
lected any, a plant for tt:c reconc;i.ticmin:!~ ties is to
be ostablisr:ec1.
(:) the bri.c.'e ; ;ircjer. s and P-f:ircters of man-made structures on
t".c tAis,.iantlec, lines v.i 11 be renne(: o
(1) in or:.ter i o presorve cr.ient this Paterial will be replaced
gay li. c for brickwork and in structures not subject to loads;
ltkewi.de the concrete foundations or builc:in=rs wtll be replaced
by ashlar stone work anu .,asonry.
(r/) The manufacture of nails from old wire ano fro-. rivets
salv'a,ed from old bolts will be or~~an i2ed.
(#3) Phe safety ane' telecomuaur leatiores Installations as well
as the cables of dls iantlec lines are to be collected at
special points to be. utilized for reconstruction work.
( ) The installation of centr^..1 workshops for the tolecom-
:nu'riications syste,a is to be concluded.
(10) seventy worn-out locomotives will be dismaautled and
their usable ports an :'materials will be Useo for the repair
of locoinotivcs.
(zl) ?.~"i'ective 1 July 1'::_49 new consumption norms for basic
materials will be introduced.
(12i The :lanufacture of ac.;ditional sirial1 iron fittinr:s and
tools is to be centre. Ily or;s.a, ized. horn-out parts and scrap
taterisl. will be utilized as far as possible.
(13) `Phrou'h, introduct-_on of new fuel Consu:;spoon, norms per
unit, throe. ?h a better utilization of locor1ot1vcq, and by an ira-
p~ove...ent of t:: oir thermic condit-Lcns, fuel consumption will be
reduced by five rercent per unit
(14) rorty ?lccomotives will be converted to coal dust firinv
in 1949 in order to save fuel and to switch over to the utili-
ration d' low?-;;retie coal.
(15) iil order to explore the possibility for savi cylinder
oil, the production of.` oil emulsion will be or.-an1z din'GvJc> of
the .most i_inortant railroad shops of the occupation zone with
V. vl.ex to utilizin: oil emulsion lubrication on the widest
possible basis in 1960.
(l) 1*ithin two months the .possibility for un exchan.y:e of
non-ferrous ,metals for ferrous :'gaterials is tgrbe explores and
an exchan.,,e procedure will be worked out accord in1rly.
(17) The full utilization of the foc:naries installed in the
ra' lroac repair shops s to be checked arnc their output will
oe - ncreased by a :ii,fsre efficient orcenizstton d work.
(18) The ur,useG or?t serv1ee.b1e. aachine tools are to be c?n-
trally collectec? to be reconditioner; and reps free: for subse-.
q?tent utilization.
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