REICHSBAHN OPERATIONAL REPORT FOR DECEMBER 1948

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• Publication Date: March 31, 1949
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U?-t-1'tt f;AL INTTELL !GENCE AGENCY REPORT NO
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The shortage of cars continued during December 1 48 so that the
:~hi.n; :r. nt~ of goods, ea ecially of coal. and ferti.1 i zer9 '~. i thj n the
Soviet zone of Germany was delayed. The S,:A had re;.,uested
8,727 cars, but it 1r>!as possible to cunr,l.sr c?n3y 4,367 cars.
2. Gcod,-- exhorted during December .1~ 48 :
D tqi rr ticn NO. of Cars. Amount in Tons
D ., c r i r. t i c n of Goods
Austria 5 56 ?lanj n r
achines
v2C.C0,7-10 v ;1.4 203 Chemi Ca) Is
20 420 1,;a nesiur? chloride
Russia 53 809 Fibre ood
nol,^r.d 30 V,8 Scrap iron
3. Goods ir:oorted during December 1948:
911r? in
$2 19727 Coke
18 285 Crude zinc
4. Derutra shl rments during Dece,:iber 1948:
b,c;! ; no d ity
T'rrf~~br:i.cated wooden
11011 Pe S
J ne pro s
1 9066 Brest-Litovsk
389 F ovel.
605 Instcrbur.
391
NO. OF ENCLS.
(LISTED BELUtu)
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.,Amc"ant in Tons
'ITimher
Cotton
Ircr. coriLalners
Crar;r hart's
f!iun.iniar,^ contain*rs
Srecharine
V{i rni sh
Machine harts
Corrugated iron
Centrifugal pumas
Iron bridge -parts
Measi-:ring instrurnents
Fibre wood
T'artr- of seating apparatus
Agricultural machines
Cement
Fluorspar
Non--ferrous metals
"otash
Poofing raper
Kitchen stoves
Lumber
RR ties
Rags
Spirits
Paraffin
Shoes
Electric motors
Scrap Iron
Saline manure
Tin household ware
Dump S
Rock sa' t
Ga s'o l i n.e
Taper goods
Cardboard
Soda
200
189
83
37
Dentin, tic,n
Denrrar. k
Brest. Li t_ovsk
Brest-Li !-:.vsk
Brest-Li.tc>vsk
Brest-Litovsk
Brest-Litovsk
''o1and
230 Rostock-l:arbcr
530 Frankfurt/Oder
2,184 Stettin
171 Brest-Litovsk
54 Guben
4 Rostock 4 arbor
28 Rostock-Harbor
31 Rostock
10 Cottbus
560 Kfistrin-Kiety
225 Kaliningrad
6 Rostock
182 Frankfurt/Oder
9,000 Insterburg
4,200 Brest-Litcvsk
4,200 Stettin
3,600 Rostock
2,210 Chernyakhcv
50 Rostock
150 Frankfurt/Oder
140 Frr-nkfurt/Odor
90 Frankfurt/Oder
980 ja'arnemtinde
207 Guben
456 Wi smar-Harbor
1,166 Rava-Russkay?;
204 Denmark
l`2 Stettin
119 T'oland
41 Guben
200 Rava-Russkayo
67 "oland
136 Brest-Litovsk
412 Russia
319 Brest-Litovsk:
79 Rostock-Iiarbor
4 Rostock- Harbor
114 r'oland
180 Frankfurt/Oder
29695 Schdnebeck
2,567 Stettin-4Harbcr
96 Frankfurt/Oder
120 Brest-Litovsk
120 Bad rchandau
294 Rostock
11 Rostock
1,386 Stettin
3,108 Schdnebeck
534 Stralsund
5,325 Schtina/border
1,276 Rossow
36 Ber1 in--Rummel sburg
18 Stralsund
22 Brest-Litovsk
52 Brest-Litovsk
510 Fr
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Goods 1rported durfn , Dfcemher 1948:
No. of Cars
Cow.modity
"ol find
(via Horka) 2,760
Hard coal
and
coke
(via Forst) 7,206
Hard coal
and
coke
249
coal
H
rd
and
coke
.
a
Russia 14
Tire
Yugoslavia 1
MMagnesite
Czechoslovakia 1
Household
goods
Goods extorted during December 1948:
Destir, a o No. of Cars
Commodity
Belgium
14
Timber for mines
Denrna rk
9
Industrial glass
1
Glass for lighting appliances
Austria
15
Sand for glass :manufacture
Switzerland
1
Medicinal glassware
130
Sand for glass manufacture
42
Coal tar
3
Scrap iron
Hungary
Reichsbahndirektion Erfurt
11
Scrap iron
Derutra and Re.narations shipments during December 1948:
Commodity
Amount in Tons
Destination
ro to sh
32t817
Wi srraT
,
3,652
Straisund
8,195
Berlin-Osthafen
13,808
Stettin
52,802
Poland
9,090
Czechoslovakia
10,428
U.S.S.R.
Textiles
l.6
YW a rnemtinde
Industrial salt
300
Austria
248
Czechoslovakia
Glauber salt
2,385
Wismar
300
Austria
1,531
Czechoslovakia
5,CC1
Insterburg
13,484
U.S.S.R.
Industrial- equipment
564
Brest-Litovsk
45
7'i sma r
2,005
Rostock
Gypsum
775
Wismar
Lumber
251
Pismar
4,413
Konigsberg
735
Stettin
744
Poland
2,101
Warnemtinde
Glassware and chinaware
31
"arnerntinde
18
Czechoslovakia
56
Sritzerland
32
Berlin-C: sthafen
30
Sweden
9
Poland
4
Denmark
225
Berlin-Osthafen
11,844
Insterburg
2,266
Stettin
4)085
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Commodity
Amount: in Tons
Destination
Bricks
865
Insterburg
29 %3
Brest--Litovsk
Sugar.
2,280
Insterburg
5,445
Brest-Litovsk
105
3
Rostock
,
255
Stettin
Prefabricated houses 3C
2
Insterburg
Brest-Litovsk
Fluorspar
'698
Insterburg
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b
726
K5n
gs
erg
''oland
Scrap Iron
20
Czechoslovakia
264
Stettin
3,232
?'oIand
Timber
Narrow-gauge
railway
18,513
Rava-Russkaya
cars
Machines and
electric
3,499
equipment
7,148
Brest-Litovsk
505
1
Str
lsund
,
a
Electric equipment 10
Denmark
Spirits 154
Brest-Litovsk
Motorcycles 90
Brest -Litovsk
Bicycles
Rostock
28
Stettin
Automobiles
120
Brest--Litovsk
Adding machines
2
Czechoslovakia
Floor boards
45
Insterburg
Miscellaneous goods
1,702
Brest-Litovsk
772
tock
Ro
s
Rubber 1,125
Rostock
Railroad ties 1,873
Hava--Russkaya
Nails 15
Stralsund
Paint and other goods
152
Poland
Tynewriters
20
Finland
Iron
544
Austria
Machines
187
Stettin
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Probstzella/Ludwigstadt consisted exclusively of transit ship-
ments and mail.
ReicLsbahadirektion, Halle
Goods exhorted during December 1948,
Destin. tion Number of Cars C9mrodity
Russia
1,030 Briquettes
20
491
126
180
1
555
348
1,005
23
220
19
4 50
6
19
24
Food
Construction material
Lumber
Chemicals
Scrap iron
Metals and machines
Miscellaneous goods
Military transports
Lumber
Gasoline
Chemicals
Scrap iron
Metals
Miscellaneous goods
Military transports
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be::? of G'
s
uo n-iodIty
N Y
15
Sugar
7
Lumber
20
Cheralcal s
51
Scrap iron
c 'r:
20
Chem5'.cals
25
Miscellanecus goods
10
Sugar
7''.
Lumber
57!
Gasoline
341
Chemicals
7
Scrap Iron
6',
Miscellaneous goods
Aunit'1
21
Metals and cach1nes
2
Military transports
20
Chemicals
Yugosi. v1.a
7
Miscellaneous goods
Various countries by -Yay
of Stettin
1,157
Coal
193
Construction material
207
Lumber
80
Chemicals
185
Machines/metal s
24
Military transports
The zbcve figures do.not include goods exported by way of
Rostock, Wismar, Strtil und, ".arnemftnde, or by way of inland
waterways.
10.r Traffic to the American and British zones was restricted to
22 cars of mail.
11
, During December 1949;, seven trains of crude oil arrived
Krunpa from Zistersdorf, Austria.
Re:? hndirekt.lon Greifswald
in
12
DuringI I)ecerher 1948 occupation traffic to Russia
of 4,486 cars and involved the shipment of troops,
reparat ..onF goods, RR ties, bricks, roofing paper,
consisted
vehicles,
timber and
luzaber, prefabricated ttouses, requisitioned ma terial y fittings,
iron constructions, gasoline, tar oil, cement, bicycles, auto-
mob:" le:-; and other goods,,
13, Derutra sh1nrient~ to Stettin via Scheune consisted of 5,520 cars,
weight. 88,377 tors, and. included machine parts, ),.cycles, ':tlto=
mo'L:il es, tar ni 1, salt, cement, potash, hay, briquettes, 1i mbar,
mia1+F` ~: os, enc ct'?er goods.
24, Gooc-. s e,.. ported dur1n? Dece& er 1'x48':
Des t l ri hfirtb,~r of Cars Commoditiee
,
BeIgi1trn 63 Lumber, mine pros, boats
Denmark 168 Lumber and timber
15. Goods imported during December 1948:
,Orin in
387 icrap iron, mine prop~;.~,
lumber, textiles, leather
goods, footgear
wine
Number of Cars Commodities
Poland 53 Hard coal and coke, crude
ron, tobacco
Czechoslovakia 4 Coke
Russia 178 Lumber timber, RR ties,
prefabricated wooden houses
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Gory:-Rod? T No,, of Cg-rs
ComMo, ;
o Cock
Sugar 8'6C
Cement
293
Machines 19
Briquettes
1E'1
1
Cables 12
Buaaa
119
Textiles 119
Bicycles
11.2'
Paraffin
8
Nall plates
46
Tires 4
6
Roofing van?r
45
Shoes 41
Co rundua
36
Barrels 36
Glasses
?
34
Chinaware
3
Household g;.cds
arneTtlnde
363
Sugar 3
2
Mi he prop s
111
Bicycles 169
Cement
Fibre wood 30
Machines
27
Paint
3
Chinaware
20
j
Shoes
1
Cloth
14
Cables 16
Equipment for
Che2.1ica1 s
10
boats 10
Glassware
92
Misc. goods
Rubber
t';isrr.ar
2,697
Potash 119
Glauber'salt
58
Plaster 414
Sugar
42
Roofing paper 1,638
Lumber
4
Misc. goods
1?A Other goods exrorted curing
December 1948:
P.estination
No of Trains
Comr.qpdity
iussia
Grain
RR ties
Prefabricated wooden houses
Poland
No. of Cars
Scrap iron
Denmark 603
Lumber
313
Timber
1
Epsom salts
2
Machines
2
Fibre wood
1
Cloth
1
Bricks
3
Yarns
2
Sheet iron
5
Concave glass
1.4
Par.ers
2
Earthenware
6
Household goods
18. (Does i :,?E.:urted
duaring December 1.948 from Den;^.ark :
Comte ATM
,.,_of Cars
NP
Commodity
7
Fish
23
innereien:'
Cow's ha? r
2
Seeds
1.
Yiiscel7 gneous goods
38
Charitable
donations
Mail
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via Frankfurt/oder
Crd`.nary gaff c IC,134 cers, 121,608 tc,ns, crntents un^ cc: fled,
Occta~.~tirn tra `fic 3,514 42,168
bo KI-stem-,K.etz
0rd'. iz rye traffic : none
Oceu: ,ration ' traffic ? German railroad en cyees are.
permitted to keep any recc rds
occuration traffic.
21. Shipments to Russia and Po1Gind dur1.n.g December 1966;
Czechoslo,rakia
icY,ba'~ ads ieltio?Ber1, n
rarcel post, and transit goods doing to and coming from
Scard nav,11a i count Hies
a. via Rostock
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-of No ;him Co:nrnQdity
c. via 1"?'a rnemtinde
Steamer
Steamers
Sailboats
Lumber
17
30
3
steamers
Steamers
Sailboats
Stea iers
2,aMoat's
Steamer
Sailboats
Miscellaneous
Sugar
Cement
Miscellaneous
Sugar
Cement
Lumber
Timber for mines
Briquettes
T'arnffin and ce.,1lu1 cse,
Pot s,
Glauber salt
Sailboats P1ayter
Traffic 'via ]ierrnburg and Sch :anheide was restricted to email,
22. I aport:, .: ors ? ussi,r: and
'o1 nd during December 1948:
via Yrankfurt/Cder
Ordinary traffic e,112 cars, 36,143 toms, ca.ntents unsrr,F
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t' Steamers Cement
6 steamers 44spe 1iaz eous
`} Steamers Sugar
I Steamer Corundum
1 Steamer Buna
Steamers,
Steal ers
Steamer
Steamer
Steamer,.
Steamer
18,417
torn, contents unsnecifiec.
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23. Food shipments to Berlii during Leceaber 1948:
T'otatoes 1,068 cars, 15,161 tons
C' f this tc tal, 723 cars contained 4, 560 head- cf cattle.
Bread grain,s nnd flour 86C " , 79 .,
Var1 ou r food items 11040 " .10, 757.
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