GENERAL RAILROAD CONDITIONS AS OF APRIL 1950

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP82-00457R005300680013-9
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 20, 2016
• Document Release Date: January 12, 2006
• Sequence Number: 13
• Publication Date: July 28, 1950
• Content Type: REPORT

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The following general trends have recently been noticed in connection with the
railroads in the Russian Zone of Germany and Polnndo
I only S-.10 locomotives
would henceforth be used for passenger services, The fire boxes on these looo-
motives have not suffered to arV great extent, largely because they have been
fired with hard coal.,. The other looomctivesk which haver up to the present,,
been used for passenger trains, have had to be withdrawn from service because of
the danger of explosions; this is due to the extremely high ricer on the fire box
walls resulting from the use of lignite, Spare parts for the locomotives in
service will be taken from those which have been withdrawn. New spare parts are
no longer available in the T'astern Zone,,
Recently a market decrease in freight traffic has been noticeable,, bs cruse of
the lack of frh1 ht ].cads:, including potatoes and other agricultural products..
Industry in general has little to forward because of a lack of ra-v materials
required for production purposes- Freight traffic, therefore,, consists im inly
un.l.oaded rapidly and there is much congestion;,
3. she lack of freight cars for transit traffic is becoming more and more noticeable
in recent months it has been found impossible to make cars available at specified
dates to cover the requirements of the occupying forces and for the transport of
reparations,, A special order has recently been promulgated, therefore., stating
that., as regards such cars, the requirements of the occupying forces must have
priority and that these cars may not be used for internal German transport purpose
4,, Transit traffic through Poland is now under strong pressure from partisans; this
is particularly the case on the line Frankfurt,/Oder--Poseen.Brest-laitovelc,. where
trains have been. under fire? The Railroad Administration is therefore, diverting
more tr..ins in the direction of the harbor towns of Wismar and Rostock. However?
since there is insufficient dock space in these towns for ships, trains cannot be
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