RAIL FREIGHT TRAFFIC THROUGH EAST GERMAN BORDER STATIONS

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80-00810A006200170008-0
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 7
• Document Creation Date: December 21, 2016
• Document Release Date: August 1, 2008
• Sequence Number: 8
• Publication Date: April 8, 1955
• Content Type: REPORT

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1. The fol'o-ing shipments were observed at Frankfurt1Oder between
5 e 17 January 19~5s
B - bozosr
F - flrtoar
0 - eswdola oar
T - trek oar
Date in Adnlsr and Load From or To
Jamar7 Tres of Caro
5 46 3 afraniw ore to Brest-Litovsk 1
STATE
56 ) 'nd t
6 54 a and t
56 G
56 0 and I
7 463
56 G
54 G and !
8 561
boxes ant iroa
parts
ban"
Doke
Undetermined
uranium ore
empty
boxes
inslndiag 20 with
duvet srtal ssi
wire *1 sssssinder
empty
56 3 end F boa#* I+ad iPors
parts
C SIFiCATJO
:LS
t7XI NAVY NSRB
YMI AIR IWJq RBI
N
SECRET
tllw
from Brest-Litovsk
from Brest-Litovsk
to Brest-Litovsk
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Date in Dumber and Load
January Tyre of Cars
8 46 B
56 G rind F coke Pnd iron ore
10 56 B
46 B
56 G
undetermined
uranium ore
coke and iron ore
10/11 56 F boxes
56 F . ron ore
56 G empty
11/12 25 T and undetermined
30 B
55 F empty
54 G boxes
12/13 1 trein 70 new two-axle
ZIS trucks
56 G and F iron ore
45 T undetermined
46 B uranium ore
55 F rails and iron tubes
14 56 B undetermined
56 G empty
15 56 G and F iron parts
56 F iron plates and
iron tubes
56 B and P including 10 F with
iron tubes the
remainder empty
56 B and P boxes
16 56 G iron ore
56 0 iron ore
SECRET
from Brest-Litovsk
to Zil.tendorf
from Brest-Litovsk
to Ziltendorf
from Brest-Litovsk
to Ziltendorf
to Brest-1ttovsk
Brest-Litovsk
from Brest-Litovsk 4
to Altenburg
from Brest-Litovsk
to Ziltendorf
to Brest-Litovsk
from Brest-Litovsk
to Brest-Litovsk
from Brest-Litovsk
to Ziltendorf
from Brest-Litovsk
to Ziltendorf
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Date in
January
)umber and
Type of Cars
Load
16 24 T
31BandF
56 B and F
empty
boxes
from Brest-Litovsk
to Brest-Litovsk
3
17 1 trrin
60 two-axle
armored personnel
carriers
from Brest-Litovsk
5
2. The following shipments were observed vt Frankfurt/Oder between
13 r+nd 24 anuary:
Date in Number and Load
January Tyre of Cars
From To
13 30 F empty Frankfurt/Oder Frankfurt/Oder
border marshaling yard
20 G
14 20 0 coal "isleban
20 G Wittenberg
20 0 1sotilen
15 2 F 2 Soviet tanks Fuerstenwalde Eber*elde
6
3 F 3 EVP tanks Cottbus
28 0 iron ore Frankfurt/Oder Ziltendorf 2
border
12 F pig iron Oroedita.
12 F Thale
.14 G Brandenburg
6 F iron :licderitasch
6 F Rostock
8 F machinery and Magdeburg Brest-Litovsk
machinery parts
6 0 cables Berlin-Rummelsburt
16 20 G coke Frankfurt/Oder Lisleben
border
200 coal
20 G
6B
nomfssvr~ns metal
'Wittenberg
Boeh?en
Berlin
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Date in Number and Load
January Type of Cars
16 10 T empty
22 T fuel
6 B textiles
17 30 F empty
20 B empty
32 G iron ore
8 F iron
4F
Frankfurt/Oder
border
Boehlen
Plauen
Frankfurt/Oder
border
'0 F
6 B rjrW tellwolle) Bitterfeld
3 B optical Jena
instruments
8 F machinery Chemnitz
38 G ore
26 G coal
coke
14 G pig iron
6 B noallrsms metal
8 T salad oil
Frankfurt/Oder
border
chemicals
8 F machinery and Chemnitz
20 30 F
machinery parts
50 Soviet trucks Frankfurt/Oder
border
3 F aircraft '.ngines
4 F empty
40 B indicn corn Kuestrin-border
To
Brest-Litovsk
Pronlfilrt Oder
marebrling yard
Ziltendorf 2
Rostock
Belle
Leipzig
Dresden
Brest-Litovsk
Brest-Litovsk
n
Ziltendorf 2
Bosh'en
Eialeben
Thale
Berlin
Schoenbeck
Brest-Litovsk
beat-Litovsk
Rio as 4
Strnueberg 7
Frankfurt 1Oder
marshaling yard
Czeahoelovakia
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Date in
January
Number and
Ty,e of Care
Load
To
22
2 P
machinery
Dessau
14 F
iron constructions
Leipzig
18 F
machinery and
Magdeburg
?
machinery parts
6 F
machinery
1olfen
Z; ~ickau
24
18 0
pig iron
Frankfurt/Oder
180
"
border
!iesa
22 0
coke
Zil tendorf
6 B
'!wt metal
n
Berlin
26 B
indian corn
Kuestrin-border
ftsbe
10 F
scrap (tanks)
Magdeburg
Czeo!loel ovakia
Brest-Litovsk 8
1t F
iron
constructions
Leipzig
n
4B
Fra.Ikfur t /Oder
border
of
ammunition
Bernburg
Runmersdorf
Altengrabow 9
3.
On 8 Jenurry, a train of 52 flatcars with 58 new three-axle trucks was
observed en route from Frankfurt/Oder to Potsdam-Wildpark.4
19 January
5.
a tr in of 1 converted boxcar, 26 boxcars
was dispatched from Toepchin to Brest-Litovsk on
.9
The folio^i shipments from Brest Litovsk
On 18 January, 25 flatcars to Riesa
/ Land 2 tears and 1 converted boxcar to Bern urg
4 On 1 Jan 1 flateare and 1 converted boxcar
to Ka.re 9
6.
a train of 62 flatcars with new trucks
1 converted boxcar with e_;tort personnel was dispatched from Frankfurt/
Oder-border to Stendal on 16 January. The trucks had dual tires in the rear,
most of them ? care of ZIS 151 type.4
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the following uranium ore shipments
were dispatched from Aue to est-Litovsk via FrrnkfurtlOders
One train consisting of 46 care each on 4, 9 and 11 January
4.
Comment Raw material deliveries to the Eisenhuettenkombinat
Os ounV77ombine East) it Fuerstenberg/Oder.
Comment_ Daliverisi by East Germ.-,n hydrogenation pl^nts to the
USSR and empty care rrturned from there.
mrcnt. Truck shi nts from the USSR- in connection with the
motor veh cle e?:oh- n u.
5. Comment. This shipment was observed
Ebers'al r?ilroad etntion on the same day.
Comment. Intra-zonal shipment.
IC_ortment.. This shipment was probably consigned to the equipment
depot of ' the 3nty-Fourth Air Army in Strnusberg.
9.
fommont. This shipment probably involved deactivated tn-,ks of
units owe T bird Shock Army.
Comment. Ammunition shipments from the USSR to the 'oviet depots
at tengrabow and Kapen. The composition of the train to !apen listed
in nsragroph 5 vas probably incorrectly identified and consisted of 35
to 38 boxcars with ammunition and 13 or 14 empty flatcars as crash cars.
Ths shipment from Toepchin probably consisted of ammunition or empty
shells which were returned to the US$R. Since early 1955
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