RAILROAD CONSTRUCTION PROJECTS

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80-00810A001700240009-8
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 3
• Document Creation Date: December 16, 2016
• Document Release Date: August 9, 2005
• Sequence Number: 9
• Publication Date: July 13, 1953
• Content Type: REPORT

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CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY
INFORMATION REPORT
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COUNTRY East Germany
SUBJECT Railroad Construction Projects
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This Document contains information affecting the Na-
tional Defense of the United States, within the mean-
ing of Title 18, Sections 793 and 794, of the U.S. Code, as
amended. Its transmission or revelation of its contents
to or receipt by an unauthorized person is prohibited
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The connecting line between the village of Loewenberg and the Loewenberg-
Fuerstenbex'g main line, including signalling apparatus, is now completes
8oweverg work has not yet been started on the line connecting Freieriwalde
beoaus 1of -the shortage of
line eq Will ne was to have been completed April 1968,
(see aketch)
The status of the Berl i M3,ohendorf railroad line is as followa$ On the
Berlin Adlershof section, where there are two or more tracks, rails acid ties
were being changed. at various pointso The line from Adlershof to Miohendorf
is double-traoked. Extensive work is in progress at Sohoenefeld, a Russian
and Volkspolisei control points four tracks have been completed and work is
being done on another two, Your new turnouts are being built at Ludwigsfelde,
and grading is in progresse. Ludwigsfelde is not a public railroad station$
it is for the use of workmen from the new plant (formerly Daimler-Bens)
at Ludwigsfelds only.
Se The status of the Ludwigsfelde-Jueterbog line is as followsai The second
track is now completed, though not in operation, between 41dwigsfelde
and Trebbin? Ties for the second track have been laid for about 4 1a, and
rails for about 3 lain between Trebbin and Wolteradorfe A considerable number
of old ties have been replaced by new ones on the existing trackel
4e The Dresden,4iese line is still single-track line, and there are no signs
of a second track'' being builto The Dresden-Bad Sohandau line is
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double-tracked throuehout- and both tr in full service.
the line is double-otraoked
as far as Bodenbaoh (Pbdmokly) in Czechoslovakia.
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Athe entire ne from Riesa to rsclmuzehle
was to double-tracked in 1953.
Enolosures Sketch of connecting curves at Loewenberg.
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Sketch of Connecting Curves at Loewenberg
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