DDR RAILWAY INFORMATION

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP82-00457R008100270010-6
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 3
• Document Creation Date: December 14, 2016
• Document Release Date: May 4, 2001
• Sequence Number: 10
• Publication Date: July 23, 1951
• Content Type: REPORT

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These are intended for use in transporting pers?.ane~ e: ;
the Ate mining area
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"A Ufa aver'! a eonr rt~nce was herd in Warsaw t ') so,
ca ache t, capable of being cony Beet to iaosD. e.E.E_ carqD
the Soviets,, An order for another ten is stili to be fi_L$_ed
6 Thirty-six double-deck coaches are. also being bunt at. G"Irli.tz
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The railway car, building plant in G irlitz ha bu:.it ten a se E;for
10 ''.y 1.951. No report has yet been received as to ti Nether
shiprient was carried out on schedule. Flatcars and coal cars.,
each loaded with ten axles, were to be used
4? Between 26 larch and ?4. rill . 1951; apprc' mat
carloads of grain an e. about ~l~OO cax oads of~ir meat aid butter a --r
in the q3 ._f w, the acv i e t'. t.ni _~.., via F.. anklfl r t/Oder
Approved For ReIe s2,,,2O4t/12/04: CIA F DP2-00457R008100270010-6
CLASSIFICATION
CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY REPORT NO.
INFORMATION CD NO.
Germany (Russian Zone)
DDR R hlway Intbr.maai .o "
23 July 1951
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DO NOT CIRCULA-DEPPLEMENT-TO
REPORT NO.
10 Increased shipments of tank cars to the Poll sh potrnnls ; product,
corporation have been going via .A:n ermi fide to tht s'`''rEte port of
Stetting
2 It fifteen kilometer stretch of track lying
and Weiss i -BLthl:.au has recently h ,n dismantle=.?d _. be wor',c as
done by a 130-man brigade from Piesa.: Rails, ties, signas_ stand-
- d s and all. other met .Y ~,pm n were rerm.rwpcl :Y Onc. r~ ~~b< ~ 1 r ht
f: rst track was lifted during -,:.lie early disrant11ix.gs of
Sher the str ion of Berlin-Lichtenberg, 4,500 car axles, capable
of being adjusted to standard European gauge or to wide Russian
auge track, have been stored. These were ordered by the Reichsbahn
main office to be transported to Brest-Litovsk and Insterburg b by
onn
and a rie fiber of the freight rate comrniSs
R 1 eh hataa- , Y;sr~ 1r a
$.- The d uuty director-yr-r