MISCELLANEOUS RAILROAD INFORMATION

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• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80-00810A002500740010-5
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• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 8
• Document Creation Date: December 27, 2016
• Document Release Date: April 29, 2013
• Sequence Number: 10
• Publication Date: October 22, 1953
• Content Type: REPORT

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CENTRAL iKE7-16-feAVEkeY REPORT
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East Germany.
Miscellaneous Railroad Ialformation
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a. Loading schedule for September 1953:
Type of Goods
1
To Be Shipped by
Rail Water
Number of (in 1,000 tons)
Carloads per
Day
(in approximate
figures)
2
3
Remarks
4
Soviet Occupation Forces
Coal
Ore
Metal
Scrap
Chemicals
Fertilizers
Liquid fuel
Construction materials
Cement
Lumber
Potatoes
600
10300 317
300 21
1200 30
400 6
900 1.2
1100 46
600 10,5
3500 321
450 33
700 21,5
380 6
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2
3 4
Grain
760
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lle1001/90.0=2
115
Fruit, vegetables
Fruit,
Sugar beets
185
Harvest. drive
after 25 September
Sugar
550
10
Salt
170
6
Alcohol
15
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Textiles, paper
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4
Livestock
410
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Other foodstuffs
550
29.8
Fodder
200
3.5
Piece goods
3100
1.5
Miscellaneous goods
400C
232
Total
30370
1215
b. Import and export shipments scheduled for August 1953:
Country
Imports
Exports
USSR
271,062
55,640
Poland
441,761
120,398
Czechoslovakia
81,059
76839
Hungary
59,807
28,940
Rumania
20,125
3,598
Bulgaria
16,675
1,312
Albania
226
China
16)949
8,000
Korea
62
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Note: The figures include shipments by rail and water.
e. Between 1 September and 31. December 1953, 2 million tons of hard coal and
200,000 tons of steel, including 50,000 tons of rails, are scheduled to be
imported for the East German Railroads from Poland. 3 After 1 September 1953,
all locomotives in East Germany are scheduled to be fired with hard coal.
However, this objective will hardly be reachedvas necessary measures were ordered
too late by the Railroads Ministry and the conversion of the dead fire boxes will
take time. 4 The agreement on coal shipments from Poland had been urged by
the Soviets. The deliveries were to start immediately.
d. According to a resolution of the Council of Ministers%a Central Transport Committee
v.tw escaulisnea, consisting of 6 men, including the Minister of Rail-
roads Chwalek , State Secretary for Motor Traffic and Roads Otto . State
Secretary for Shipping Hess and Deputy Minister of Railroads Kramer
The committee was ordered to held conferences with the ministers concerned each
month to diseuss the most appropriate form of shipping goods. Representatives of
the Transport Committee named in the districts will act as advisors. 5
on 10 August 1953,
were available in East Germany:
Operational cars
Non-operational cars
including Damaged cars
Special
purpose cars
(of which for
SCC)
Reserve cars
(of which for
SCC)
Total
96,369
29,812
17,581
5,041
(642)
7,190
(5,717)
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the following numbers of freight cars
126,181
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Reserve ears for the SCC included:
1,970 boxcars
2,960 gondola cars
737 flatcars
50 tank cars
5,717 cars
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a. cormeg . The average daily loading performance of the railroads is
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4omment. As compared with JuIy 1953, the export and import quotas uere in-
creased by 93,350 and 213,500 tone respectively. . :rocpor150X1-H UM
was scheduled to be increased to Foland, _ Imports
from the USSR increased from 83,0CC tons to 271,00t tons, probably in connection
with the Soviet relief program in the field of food and raw materials.
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3.recbc_rommat.. If the information on the shipment of 50,000 tons of ralls
a 50O km of trackage of heavy type, is correct the bottleneck in the field of
rails would be eliminated in East Germany for the current year.
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Comment. information on the conversion of locomotives to hard coal firang was
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of coal represent about 100 days' requirements and thus are about adequate to Ease
German coal consumption during the four months of delivery.
received
Skew:ant.
with the mission to eetermane
rail, road or water.
are identical.
tne most
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Comment, On 28 May 1953, a total of 133,812 cars VAS recorded.
For reasons of fluctuations in the numbers of ears,
The large number of ears reserved for the Sovets
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