STATISTICS ON RAILROAD FREIGHT CARS

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• Document Creation Date: December 19, 2016
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• Content Type: REPORT

COUNTRY
SUBJECT
INFORMATION REPORT' CD NO,
id The following number of empty railroad freight cars were dispatched
abroad in March 1953:
Poland
Hungary
Rumania
3.OF PCLS.
(USTEO SEU)W)
SUPPLEMENT TO
REPORT NO.
THIS IS UNEVALUATED INFORMATION
3,950 boxcars (for grain)
5,442 gondola cars (for ore)
292 flatcars (R, 8, SS, SSy, RRy type>
2. refrigerator cars (for fats)
2,84.6 gondolb cars (for coal)
36 refrigerator cars (for meat and vegktable)
8 refrigerator oars (for meat)
During the same period, the following numbers of foreign railroad care
were made available for the East German railroad administration:
4,03 cars (for potash to Poland)
3,428 cars (for potash to Czechoslovakia)', 4
Coment. As compared with February, there were the following change~3
-e numb erof freight cars dispatched abroad:
1J.S .-$A.. The number of boxcars for grain imports decreased by 18C raitc,
t6iletho number of gondola cars for ore shipments increased by 2,300. T4,:
irmnber of flatcars increased by 130, which indicates increased weapons atli
t .sank ship:stents, possibly for the 1VP. However, no such shipments were ob-'
:. arv?ed trrior to late March.
Poland. The number of gondola cars for coal ab ip its : increased by about
200 percent. Reports on freight traffic through th auben, Forst and Horki
border stations indicated that westbound hard coal shipments were inereeL,s`ing..
Commnt. The number of oars furnished by Poland for potash s biizen
i acs as by more than 300 percent.
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