CONSTRUCTION OF NEW RAILROAD LINE

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP82-00457R000100420002-6
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: C
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• Document Creation Date: December 14, 2016
• Document Release Date: December 11, 1998
• Sequence Number: 2
• Publication Date: September 17, 1946
• Content Type: IR

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CENTRAL INTIGENC
INTELLIGENCE REPORT
COUNTRY Rumania
BJEC Construction of We.
Railroad Line
ORIGIN
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DATE.
INFO.
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DI ; 13 November 1946
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SUPPLEMENT
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10 Ali liupurtant w;.% section of railroad line as recently been
:l?t:l)"i en AMC s iE rx iil::ii+:lni 4 'D
ilf rw L3 of `.hick the. jo-urne y fro.u
Fetroseni to * uc'siE.rest ha.s been eonslc;erabl.~7 ax.cex,tc:rie:u. T'h& v;ork was
~xx~clerta~~en by Aoviet as tell as i uniax iaxi e n lnc~.rs and cost 80
milliard lei .
or a The 1?(A- section eoaaliects LiWZex-ii Vvith iat bcsti and was con-
struc.ted i.it1.t great dif#iculty. -',1;h its len'th Is only thirty
one ':ilo.c;etersg iricl,ded in tl:iIs short stri:tch L.re:
a. .:~irty --Mayo tunnels with a total len;tfi o1.' &-i ;bt silo:acters;
b `i'v.e t1y" .tare bra es; )
c o I if't;; - i az.t si 11 i rics~;cs; ) v it; , ~s total lwiL tch of 2,200
d. Twenty-five vi :dacts ?) ;:aeters.
3. 64jereras the old routc. was fro:r fc.troscni - J srle "- kierculane ' ax,nu' .everin - Craiova, iii;, x.ew route: follov.s the riolht wank of the
Jiul 1. v-er to iiunabesti ana then continues via Craiova to l:ucharest
to 1-he Lueku&rest 1F-Lctorif.s bj rbil. The coal as 1-1x.ev1ous1Q, carried
&Ion the Danube b;,? bax~i;es,, t: joursmy ,thief. took xw&rly to cat's lone
thk,ra b,- the xwm rout(..
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