REVISION OF TASK FORCE I PAPER , 'RAILWAY GAUGE DIFFERENTIAL AND THE TRANSLOADING FACILITIES OF THE WESTERN SOVIET FRONTIER '

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP79-01093A000100090002-7
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 3
• Document Creation Date: November 9, 2016
• Document Release Date: April 6, 1999
• Sequence Number: 2
• Publication Date: November 6, 1951
• Content Type: MEMO

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umce 1 VJ~emoran o ?UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT
TO : Chief, D/R
`THRU : Chief, D/S J
FROM Chief, S/TR
DATE: 6 November 1951
SUBJECT: Revision of Task Force I Paper, "Railway. Gauge Differential and the
Transloading Facilities of the Western Soviet Frontier"
The following substantive changes in the subject paper are recom-
mended prior to its publication as an O/RR Provisional Report:
J 1. Page I-1, para. 2, line 1. For "the volume of traffic", read "the
'total volume of traffic."
"several of the stations."
. 3. Page I-1, para. 3, line 2. For "can be prepared", read "has
been prepared."
1 4. Page I-1, para. 3, lines 2-3. For "the current volume ... being
transloaded", read "the total volume ... now being transloaded."
3 5. Page 1-3, para. 1, lines 8-11. For the sentence begiariing''"This
would ...", read "This flexibility is limited along the Soviet frontier,
however, because transloading facilities do not now exist at all points
where the border is crossed by rail lines and through traffic is there-
fore funneled through certain points of concentration."
6. Page 1-7, para. 1, lines 13-14. For "which includes three con-
firmed transloading points; ...", read "where three transloading stations
have been reported to exist, at ...".
7. Page 1-13, para. 2, line 5. For "circumcised", read "circumscribed."
8. Page 1-13, Mast para., lines 5-6. For "the wheels run ... 7/8
of an inch", read "the wheels run on a camber which toes-in the wheels
7/8 of an inch at the rim."
9. Page 1-15, para. 2, line 2. For "and is believed to be performed"
read "and may be performed."
10. Page 1-16, para. 1, lines 3-4. The second sentence should read:
"Traffic across poland with Germany and Czechoslovakia varied between
a high of 1,645,000 tons in 1931 and a low of 219,000 tons in 1934."
4 4 11. Page 1-16, para.l, line 6. For "estimated at about 175,000
tons," read "estimated to have been about 175,000 tons."
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f 12. Page 1-19, para. 1, line 3. For "has not been reported since
1946," read "has been reported only rarely since 1946."
13. Page 1-22, para. 2, line 2. For "do not exceed 150 units",
read "do not exceed 175 units."
1 14. Ibid, line 4. For "should not exceed 20 percent (30 units)",
read "should not exceed 20 percent (35 units)."
15. Page 1-23, penultimate line. For "Less than a thousand", read
"Roughly a thousand."
16. Page 1-24, para. 1. To second sentence, add: "with only oc-
casional and temporary delays because of seasonal or extraordinary in-
creases in traffic, which are not frequent enough to warrant increased
facilities."
17. Page 1-24, para. 1, lines 2 and 5. For "forseeable", read
foreseeable."
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