STATISTICS ON RAILROAD FREIGHT CARS

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80-00810A000700660007-5
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: January 11, 2010
• Sequence Number: 7
• Publication Date: April 6, 1953
• Content Type: REPORT

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CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY REPORT
INFORMATION REPORT CD NO,
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CLASSIFICATION SFC'tTtiTrr'SC :rlT'MU?1Ernii
COUNTRY East Germany
SUBJECT Statistics on Rail-road Freight Cars
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ACQUIRED
DATE OF
INFO.
OF THS YPFITFD STATES. WITHIN THE OF-ANWO OF TITLO W. JUCTIOHB 799
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the following numbers of empty freight cars were dispatched
a oa n January 1953s
ti.S.F. .Brest Litovsk)
ungary
from foreign countries operated in East Germany in January 1953:
DATE DISTR. 6 April 1953
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5,047 boxcars (grain shuttle ' ari )
1,973 gondola cars (for ore)
X64 flatcars (of all types)
405 refrigerator cars (for butter
and canned food)
34 Gs-type cars (for butter) 3
30 refrigerator cars (far me.t)
15 " (for meat and 2
the following numbers of freight cart
i,339 boxcars (for potash) 3
388 gondola cars (for coal)
Go-type cars are 15-ton, two-axle freight, cars capal_
or a r imam speed cf 90 /h.. During the winter season they are useet
for the transportation of goods normally shipped In refrigerator card.
20 iomzTn>;. As compared with December 1952, the number of empty
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and ore increased by 300 and 200 percent respectively, while the
:t:.'. m.box% of i* r,T_,erator or Gs-type cars increased by 400 percent?
. t?e:ig.zt cars dispatched to the U.S.S.R. for the importation of grain.
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This increase reflects on the critical food sJt:uat:`?-;n in 'past Gerr.ar,
The number of empty freight cars dis atche.? to ;iungary and Czechoslovakia
remained about constant. ,
3. Corment, The shortage of s r ht, care necessitated tLe enployrent
of foreign equipment for season. (-x . rt shi rents such as fertilizer
shipments to Poland? the
Directorate General, ft? .rc,ads, Berlin, requested the Polish State
Railroads that it make availatL three trains of erinty gondola cars
daily.
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