RAILROAD TRAFFIC BETWEEN FRANKFURT/ODER AND BREST

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80-00810A003400460001-3
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 21, 2016
• Document Release Date: April 16, 2009
• Sequence Number: 1
• Publication Date: February 1, 1954
• Content Type: REPORT

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2. In late September 1953 there were eight to eleven trains leaving
Frankfurt/Oder daily for Brest-Litovsk.; Traffic was showing a tend-
ency to increase. In addition to the 4leven trains per days three
other trains left daily for Brest between 14 and 24 Septembe:
They were passenger trains transporting Russian Air Force officers
and men from East Germae r to the USSR. Of the usual eleven t:'ains
which leave daily, four are usually passenger trains and seven
freight trains. The freight trains frdm Frankfurt/Oder to Barest
are loaded with heavy machines, electrical equipment and machinery,
engines (sic), lath3s, prefabricated steel bridges, textiles
(finished products) and corn. The freight trains from Brest to
Frankfurt/Oder are for the most part loaded with amall arms, heavy
armored cars (scot tanks), light armored cars and armor plate w.iich
is to be assembled in German factories.
Security precautions concerning the contents of trains have been
increased. New forms containing the regulations and a warning, plus
a pledge of secrecy,have been circulated among brigade membe:^s4 Thase
are taken up after they have been signdd by each railroader.
4. Heavy equipment transports are composed of the following care:
locomotive
German escort car
Russian escort car
crane car
6 "Tiefladewagen"l- each car has six to eight axles, making
.about 100 axles per train
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German escort ct;r
Ru cian escort car
G-curs (box cars)
protectinG cars
0--curs wit.i am: nition
Textiles are ct,rried on the trip to ''rest and munition on the
return trip to Frankfurt/Oder; textiles are trans.orted.in G--cars,
ar:.zunition in 0-cars, with 20 axles of empty cr!rs (protectint, cLrs)
bet-.-.eon the ammunition care: and the j'u oiun _)erco.net cur; one
train usually has 118 to 120 axles.
C?mpletely new 0-cars leave Lrankfurt for Brest at the rate of
about three trains per day (,.ith normal traffic about 18 to 20
trains per day) . They go to Brest empty ..nd do not return to
Frankfurt. It is believed that t!ie,y are used in Polish territories
annexed by the i uscians.
Comment. "Tiefladewagen" are depressed center flat cars.
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