RAIL FREIGHT TRAFFIC THROUGH EAST GERMAN BORDER STATIONS

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• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80-00810A005800220009-8
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 5
• Document Creation Date: December 21, 2016
• Document Release Date: June 19, 2008
• Sequence Number: 9
• Publication Date: December 3, 1954
• Content Type: REPORT

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COUNTRY
CLASSIFICATION SEC
.East Germany
TOPIC Rail. Freight Traffic through East German Border Statio
DATE OBTAIN
REFERENCES
REPORT
PAGES 5 ENCLOSURES (NO. & TYPE)
REMARKS
REPARED 3 December 1954
1. The following shipments were determined
by personal observations, between 27 October and 16 November 1954:
B - boxcar
E - express train coaches
F - flatcar
R - refrigerator car G - gondola car
T tank car
Date in Number and Load
October Type of Cars
27 6 F machinery parts Erfurt Brest Litovsk
8 F crated machinery Leipzig
12 T undetermined it
3 F trucks with hoisting it
gears
8 B undetermined
6 F crane parts and boxes it
12 F machinery
28 50 F new trucks Frankfurt/Oder direction of 1
F4lkenberg
23 R new Coswig Brest Litovsk 2
7 F wheel sets
29 6 F machinery parts Chemnitz
30 12 F If It
4 B undetermined
31 24 T Grosskorbetha Guben 3 25X1
4B
8 F machinery parts Leipzig Brest Litovsk
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October
31
5 F
new trucks
Frankfurt/Oder
Cottbus
2 B
troops
November
20 F
new narrow gauge
Weimar
Brest Litovsk
24 F
large boxes and
4B
machinery parts
undetermined
14 F
crane and machinery
Leipzig
6 B
parts
undetermined
5B
military goods
Frankfurt/Oder
Cottbus
21 R
new
Coswig
Brest Litovsk 2
8 F
wheel sets
6 F
Leipzig
8 F
Dresden
6 F
new trucks
Zwickau
25 F
machinery and boxes
6B
military goods
Frankfurt/Oder
6ottbus
10 F
new trucks
Leipzig
Brest Litovsk 4
11 B
undetermined
4F
machinery parts
Magdeburg
4F
boxes
Chemnitz
40 B
undetermined
Leipzig
18 F
gantry crane parts
6 T
gasoline
Frankfurt/Oder
Brand
5
8 B
military goods
36 T
undetermined
Ruben
4
5T
Cottbus
6
40 F
78 trucks
Dresden
Guben
1
12 B
military goods
Frankfurt/Oder
Cottbus
46 B
undetermined
Aue
Brest Litovsk 7
18 F
boxes and
Magdeburg
"
24 T
machinery parts
20 B
11
7F
frames and-girders
Erfurt Reppen
10 E
Brest Litovsk
7F
wheel sets
2
15 B
undetermined
Frankfurt/Oder Jueterbog
3B
troops
30 F
empty
20
new narrow gauge
Weimar
18 F
boxes and machinery par
ts
12 B
undetermined
46 B
15 F
15 new trucks
8 F
machinery parts
12 T
Merseburg
40 B
3? F
6 trucks
direction of
Co4$bus
4B
troops and equipment
Falkenberg
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Tovember
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8
50 F
80 trucks Frankfurt/Oder
Koenigsbrueck
1 B
troops -
1 25X1
6 F
machinery parts Leipzig
10 F
tractors Chemnitz
Reppen
8 F
boxes
21 R
new Coswig
Brest Litovsk ,,
7F
wheel sets
undetermined Grosskorbetha
Guben 3
40 F
40 new trucks Zwickau
Brest Litovsk
8 G
50 new small containers
8 F
machinery parts
6B
undetermined
50 B
undetermined Frankfurt/Oder
Jueterbog
1 B
troops
45 B
undetermined
Brest Litovsk
1 B
troops
boxes Leipzig
40 F
40 trucks direction of
Cottbus 1
1 B
troops Falkenberg
4F
40 B
undetermined Dresden
8 F
machinery parts
8 F
machinery parts Leipzig
20 F
20 trucks
Cottbus 1
1 B
troops
20 F
20 new trucks
Brest Litovsk 4
10 T
undetermined
Guben
20 B
potash
3
8 F
boxes
30 F
30 trucks
direction of
4 B
troops
Falkenberg
8 F
machinery parts Chemnitz
Brest Litovsk
10 G
60 new small containers
1
railway crane Nordhausen
Danzig
2 F
accessories
12 F
machinery parts Magdeburg
Brest Litovsk
20 B
iron parts Halberstadt
40 F
40 trucks Cottbus
direction of
4 B,
troops
Falkenberg
40 F
40 trucks
4 B
troops
15 F
new trucks Zwickau
8 F
boxes Leipzig
40 F
trucks Frankfurt/Oder
direction of
Falkenberg
16 12 F
boilers.,and boxes Dresden
2 B
undetermined
2. I -la train of 49 flatcars and 1 converted boxcar
with 713 tons was dispatched, from Rostock to Brest Litovsk on 4 November
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shipments
CB - converted boxcar
Date in Composition
November of Trains Tons From
10 1 SB, 50 F 1,000 Neustrelitz Brest Litovsk
12 1 CB, 1 B, 10 F Frankfurt/Oder Satzkorn
19 1 CB, 25 F 600 Neuruppin Brest Litovsk
21 1. CB, 24 F 800 Wildpark It
4. A shipment of 11 flatcars with undetermined load en route from Brest Litovsk
to Fuerstenwalde-Sued 25X1
was observed at Fuerstenwalde on 18 November.
The following shipments were observed at Frankfurt/Oder on 18 and 21 November:
Date in Number and Load 25X1
November Type of Cars
18 56 G empty Frankfurt/Oder Brest Litovsk 25X1
1 train 65 trucks Brest Litovsk toward Cotthus 1
56 F boxes Frankfurt/Oder Brest Litovsk
11
56 B undetermined
30 B probably ammunition Brest Litovsk Frankfurt/Oder
? F 26 guns 11~~
Coumient. These shipments were connected with the motor vehicle
exchange progeam. It is noteworthy that four boxcars with troops were
attached to some of the shipments from the USSR. On the assumption that
these cars really carried troops, their number would far exceed the
strength of a normal e'cort detail which consists of 5 to 12 soldiers.
It is not believed probable that these trains were used for the shipment
of recruits to the GDR in addition to troop shuttle trains which are
currently observed. There is a possibility that these cars carried the
personnel fdr the trucks shipped who would thus represent additional motor
transport units.
Comment. Deliveries of East German railroad car factories.to the
USSR. The Soviet-gauge wheel sets carried along will be used on these
cars in the USSR.
Comment. Deliveries of East German hydrogenation plant to the USSR.
1. L. These cars are believed to be newly manufactured equipment
t.
orted to the USSR or Red China.
,*UNCODED for the bomber regiment stationed at Briesen airfield.
which is served by the Brand railroad station.
Comment. Intra-zonal shipment from the hydrogenation plant at
c-chwarzheide-Ruhland possibly to the KVP/Luft (Aeoclub) at Cottbus.
in Saxony. Uranium ore shipments usually consistlof 45 boxcars with 15
tons each and 1 car for the Soviet escort personnel.
Comment. This shipment was repeatedly observed on its way and
during unloading operations in Satzkorn. The shipment consisted of 10
tanks of the new T 54 type which were-consigned to the tank dividion
stationed there. Similar shipments were dispatched to three other tank
divisions of mechanized armies stationed in Altruppin, Meinsdorf and
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25X1
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Com.:.ent. This shipment consisted of two parts.
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an s, posse y of the new type,
were shipped but, on the other hand, no tank unit is stationed at
erstenwalde.
Comment. It is believed that these shipments were further forwarded
from Frankfurt/Oder. Gun shipments were recently repeatedly observed.
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