RAIL FREIGHT TRAFFIC THROUGH EAST GERMAN BORDER STATIONS

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• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80-00810A005500810010-4
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• Document Creation Date: December 21, 2016
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• Content Type: REPORT

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CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY
INFORMATION REPORT
gondola car
refrigerator car
tank car
REPORT
CD NO.
DATE DISTR. 5 January 1955
NO. OF PAGES
NO. OF ENCLS.
(LISTED BELOW)
SUPPLEMENT TO
REPORT NO.
THIS IS UNEVALUATED INFORMATION
Date in
September
Number and Load
Type of Cars
From
To
22
10 E
new
Halle
Brest Litovsk 1
9 F
wheel sets
23
45 B
uranium ore
Aue
II 2
18 T
gasoline
Ruhland
Frankfurt/Oder 3
46 B
potash
Grosskorbetha
Guben
18 F
machinery parts
Leipzig
1
Brest Litovsk
12 B
undetermined
4 F
machinery
Chemni.tz
24
45 B
uranium ore
Aue
5F
trucks with
hoisting 1pars
Leipzig
7F
machinery parts
8 F
traverser sections
express
flatcar
COUNTRY East Germani
SUBJECT Rail Freight Traffic through East German
Border Stations
PLACE
ACQUIRED
DATE OF
INFO.
THIS DOCUMENT CONTAINS INFORMATION AFFECTINGTHE NATIONAL DEFENSE
OF THE UNITED STATES WITHIN THE MEANING OF THE ESPIONAGE ACT SO
U. S. C? 31 AND 32. AS AMENDED. ITS TRANSMISSION OR THE REVELATION
OF ITS CONTENTS IN ANY MANNER TO AN UNAUTHORIZED PERSON IS PRO-
HINTED BY LAW. REPRODUCTION OF THIS FORM IS PROHIBITED.
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September
26
50 B potash
27
10 F new trucks
Chemnitz
Brest Litovsk 4
26
2 F machinery
21 R new
Dessau
8 F wheel sets
8 F large boxes
2 B undetermined
Chemnitz
27
45 B uranium ore
28
10 E new
Halle
29
8 F wheel sets
2 F large boxes
Chemnitz
6 B undetermined
50 B potash
Grsskorbetha
Guben
30
8 G 50 new small containers
October
4 F machinery parts
24 F boxes and iron
constructions
Erfurt
1
50 B fertilizers
Grosskorbetha
Guben
2
9 F machinery
4 B undetermined
5 F undetermined
Erfurt
Reppen
3 F ship boilers
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12 F boxes, machinery parts
18 T gasoline Ruhland
Frankfurt/Oder 3
3
22 B undetermined Salzungen
Guben
4
4 F machinery Magdeburg
Brest Litovsk
5
21 R new Dessau
8 F wheel sets
8 F boxes Leipzig
6
8 F crane parts
2 B accessories
15 B undetermined
4 F machinery parts Magdeburg
it
7
50 B potash Grosskorbetha
Guben
8
2 F boxes Leipzig
Brest Litovsk 4
4 F 12 truck trailers
10
34 F machinery parts
10 E new
8 F wheel sets
24 B undetermined
18 T
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6 F machinery parts
October
11
16
4G
25 small containers
8 B undetermined
25 new small containers
2 F ship boilers
3 F boiler parts
machinery parts
2 F boxes
8 B undetermined
45 B uranium ore
30 F 60 trucks and jeeps
25 B undetermined
50 F 60 trucks
21 R new
7 F wheel sets
12 F machinery parts
8 B undetermined
4 T undetermined
6 F boxes
2 B undetermined
10 T undetermined
8 F machinery parts
48 F 60 trucks
40 B potash
3 F excavator
6 B undetermined
10 F 10 new trucks with
hoisting gears
42 B ammunition
8 B crash cars
4 F machinery parts
2 F transformers
5 F iron parts
42 cars 3 excavators, large
iron parts, boxes
3 F ship boilers
22 F machinery parts
7 B undetermined
10 E new
6 F wheel sets
30 cars machinery parts and
crane parts
Chemnitz Brest Litovsk
Magdeburg
Chemnitz
Dresden
Magdeburg "
Koenigswuster= Frankfurt/0der 5
hausen
Dresden Brest Litovsk
Torgau Frankfurt/Oder 5
Leipzig 4
Dessau Brest Litovsk 1
Grosskorbetha Frankfurt/Oder 3
Chemnitz Brest Litovsk
Leipzig
Frankfurt/Oder 4
Grosskorbetha Guben
Nordhausen Brest Litovsk
Leipzig 4
Frankfurt/Oder Torgau 6
Leipzig Brest Litovsk
Erfurt
Leipzig
Dresden
Halle-Sued 1
Leipzig
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October
17 50 cars 30 new small containers Zwickau
18 16 F machinery parts Leipzig
8 F boxes Dresden
6 B undetermined
12 B ammunition
8 F aircraft crates Frankfurt/Oder Koethen
26 cars large bridge sections Erfurt Brest Litovsk
and iron parts
16 T - gasoline Grosskorbetha Guben 3
19 21 R new
7 F wheel sets
20 12 F machinery parts Leipzig
8 B undetermined
24 T undetermined
C/B
shipments to Brest Litovsk
n 21 and 28 September:
Dessau Brest Litovsk 1
Grosskorbetha Guben 3
Date in Composition Dispatched from
September of Train
21 1 CB, 52 F Rudolstadt
24 1 CB, 32 F Magdeburg
28 2 CB, 50 F Haldensleben
The following shipments were observed at
16 and 18 October:
Date in Number and Load
October Type of Cars
16 54 ("T iron ore
56 B empty
54 F boxes and cablfs
56 B undetermined
17 54 F iron tubes
55 F boxes
56 F machinery parts
1 train 65 new trucks
18 56 G iron ore
56 G empty
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Frankfurt/Oder between
Brest Litovsk Ziltendorf 8
Brest Litovsk
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Koenigsbrueck 6
Frankfurt/Oder
Frankt%V*I9 Brest Litovsk
Brest Litvosk Ziltendorf
Frankfurt/Oder Brest Litovsk
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Ziltendorf 8
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4. On 14 October, a shipment of about 45 new trucks which had arrived
from Frankfurt/Oder-border was unloaded at the Dallgow railroad
station. On 20 October, 51 trucks were loaded at the Dallgow railroad
station and dispatched. to Frankfurt/Oder. 5 .
5. The following shipments were observed passing through the Muelllrose
railroad station between 14 and 19 October:
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Date in
October
Number and
Type of Cars
Load
From
To
14
30 F
40 trucks
direction of
Koenigswusterhausen
Frankfurt/Oder 5
23 F:
new
Coswig
Brest Litovsk
7 F
wheel sets
16
40 B
ammunition
Brest Litovsk
direction of
12
crash cars
6
Cottbus
17
50 F
70 trucks
Frankfurt/Oder
5
10 E
new
Halle
Brest Litovsk
3 F
wheel sets
19
23 R
new
8 F
wheel sets
6. The follcwing shipments were observed passing through the Satzkorn
railroad station en route from Frankfurt/Oder:
14 October, 75 new trucks to an undetermined destination
17 October, 25 new trucks to Perleberg. 5
On 21 October, a train of 42 cars with 839 tons was dispatched from
Dallgow to Brest Litovsk via Frankfurt/Oder
8. On 23 October, 50 flatcars with trucks were obserged at the Dallgcw
railroad station. The trucks were probably to be unloaded there since
the train had no engine. On 24 October, a shipment of about 60 trucks
was observed at the Wustermark railroad station coming from the
direction of Seddin and heading toward Dallgow. 5
shipments dispatched to Brest-Litovsk
21 October,
tcars from Rathenow
25 October,1 converted boxcar and 40 flatcars from Sperenberg
Comment. Deliveries of East German railroad car factories to
e SR. The Soviet-gauge wheel sets carried along will be used
on the new cars in the USSR and the standard-gauge wheel sets will be
returned to the factories.
Comment. Uranium ore shipments from the uranium ore mining district
in axony to the USSR.
Comment. Deliveries by the East German hydrogenation plant at
Grosskorbetha (Leuna) ad Ruhland-Schwarzheide to the USSR.
omment:Deliveries from East German factories possibly for China
or re urn shipments from the motor vehicle repair shop Roter Stern
(Red Star) of the GSFG.
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Comment. These shipments were connected with the motor vehicle
Comment. Ammunition shipments from the 4~SSR consigned to Soviet
ammunition depots in the GDR.
omment. Possibly the crates contained aircraft for the figbter
regiment stationed at Koethen.
omment. Raw material deliveries for the Eisenhuettenkombinat Ost
Foundry Combine East ) at Fuerstenberg/Oder which is served by the
Ziltendorf railroad station.
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