MISCELLANEOUS INFORMATION ON LOCOMOTIVE COLUMNS

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP82-00457R007800670009-1
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 27, 2016
• Document Release Date: December 17, 2013
• Sequence Number: 9
• Publication Date: June 19, 1951
• Content Type: REPORT

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CLASSIFICATIOOPUINZAUROL - U.S. OFFICIALS 01
CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY REPORT
INFORMATION REPORT CD NO.
COUNTRY Germany (tuasinn zone)
SUBJECT Miscellaneous Information on
Locomotive Columns
PLACE
ACQUIRED
DATE OF
INFO.
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DATE DISTR. 19 June 1951
NO. OF PAGES 2
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OP Mt ONITSIS STATUS WITHIN TVIS STIAASSO OP TON ESPIOITAGI! ACT SO
V. S. O.. ST AND U. AS ASSUDE11. ITS TRAIIISESSION OR /SS MISLATICS
OF ITS COMM 111 AUT OUSISIIIIS TO AN ISIASTIJOSSCID MOOS IS PRO.
MOSS ST LAS'. suitooiratos OP TAM POSH IS PROISSUTZD.
* Except as noted
THIS IS UNEVALUATED INFORMATION
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1. Pteformanoe of Locomotive Column No 10 in Ctbur:
Tntal kilometers traveled
Of total within the DDR
b, Ton kilometers
Janua2.12E1
December 1950
60,991
93,400
18,355
24,00
44,779,000
76,000,000
7.902,000
13,400,000.
??, Twenty-eight, locomotives were kept cold as a eolumn reserve at the Uokro GT 52/11 07)
railroad station on the Berlin-DrP,sden railroad line on 15 March 1951,
3., On 14 and 15 March 1951, it was observed that 28 locamotiv3s were kept cold in n..."?
These locomotives are the equipment of deactivated Locomotive Column No 9 in 50X1-HUM
Cottbus (N 62/A 57), They serve as a locomltive reserve?
4. On 9 March 1951, twenty-eight locomotives, type 52, were parked at the Uckro
1e1 road station,
5, Durng the period from 1 to 15
reserve locomotives
(N 53/Z 97) Reserve Column No
Reserve Column No 6 was parked
Blumenhagen (N 54/(4 o6). **
March 195111 it was observed
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13 gas observed in Ducherow
at Strasburg (N 54/u
that a column of
parked in Ruednitz
(N 54/V 99), while part of
96) and part at
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an 17 March 1951
a conference of railroad officials at
which matters concerning locomotive columns were to be discussed, ***
Comment. This locomotive column is one of the six operational 50X1-HUM
?1?rer.?TE-r-dootunriereased activity in January 1951 is due to the marked
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Comment,) Confirms the parking of the locomotives of deactivate5oxi -HUM
Column No 64 The fact that part of these locomotives are parked at
Blumenhagen, the first railroad station east or Strasburg, is reported
for the first tinue It is possibly because of operational reasons that
the locomotives of this column were distributed among two neighboring
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railroad stationeq
Comment a The conference of the personnel sections, chiefs of t50X1 -HUM
regional railroad headquarters may have been concerned either with the
screening or increase of the crews of locomotive celumnso Special care
is taken to select suitable personnel for these locomotives, with
emphasis laid on political reliability. 50X1-HUM
However, it is also possible that the assignment of personnel for the
six locomotive columns presently deactivated may have been discussedo
This would ind nate a possible reactivation of these locomptire columns
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