RAIL FREIGHT TRAFFIC THROUGH EAST GERMAN BORDER STATIONS

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80-00810A004600750005-7
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 8
• Document Creation Date: December 20, 2016
• Sequence Number: 5
• Content Type: REPORT

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COUNTRY East Germany
SUBJECT Rail Fre?3ht Traffic through East German
Border Stations
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1. The flJ.owing rail shipments were observed on route from Kiets to Insterburg
between 1 and 12 June 1954:
Date in Ltmber.and Type Tons
June of Care
Date in Number of Load
June Flatcars
1 14 tractors
2 8 machinery
6 28 tractors
9 7 machinery
12 14 tractors
10 23 boxcars 673
28 crash cars
23 boxcars 700..
28 crash care
- boxc&r
express train coach
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G - gondola car
T -. tarlc car
R - refrigerator car
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Date =,!-,her and Load
Juiae 'y'^& nf Care,
neu field railway balls
)")Cor~C-U'/es
new "i?ht- raxifi and tucks
12 E. and etermired
5A, 6 potash
7 1 F new trucks
2". `i undeterrired
z~ Cs P sulphate of soda
10 2 F dredgers
6 P accessc.'ies
nev t:-u--k:,
machinery par to
and eter n fined
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SalLnu amen
Not, drw-u sen
maoh-t ne-r y pat is Le?:ipz' tgy
xiachin:3.--.r )arts Svagdc buirg
large boiler rings Xoethe;l
new, type IL-ale
aceas.,c: _.,s
4 F dredger rei.tions Nordhausen
5 F large iron sections
4 shin cocti.ons Koethen
t[' '.F new trucks Ar!ckau
2 F dredge rs nrd}'a'ur*n
mathirery parts
steel etrtctures, Erfurt
parts
4 snail rc''ntairel-s Weimer
Each
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z t3e1 ;tinctures
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19 2 F dredgers Nordhausen
27 F accessories and wheel sets
6 G 6 new email containers Weimar
each
C, F machinery parts and
boxes
20 10 F steel casings, 2 meters Dessau
in diameter
14 F steel structvree, iron
sections, boxes
8 -B undetermined
5
Brest Litnvnk
Brest Lit43vsk `.
Some of the shipping papers of the shipments to Brest Litovsk which consisted
of dredgers, iron sections and constructions and trucks bore the note
"To Be Forwarded to China" or "To Be Forwarded to Korea". 7
4. On 7 June, a train which came from Frankfurt/Oder was shunted to the track
leading to Lossen-dueterbog at the Foenigswusterhausen railroad station.
The train consisted of 2 Flatcars with 3 caterpillar tractors, 9 flatcars
with 9 trucks with van.-like superstructures and some of them with two--eheel
trailers, 3 fhtcars with 9 rectangular steel containers about 2 meters
long, 7 boxcars with undetermined load, and 1 coach with escort personnel.
5. On 16 June, the following shipment which came from Frankfurt/Oder and ,as
bound for Jueterbog, was observed at the Cottbus railroad station:
30 flatcars and gondola cars with 40 canvas-covered motor vebicles(proaably
armored scout cars), 12 boxcars with undetermined load, and 1 boxcar with
troops. 9
6. The following shipments were observed at Frankfurt/Oiler between 10 and 20 Jute:
RRy - heavy duty "latcars
Date in limber and Load
June Type of Cars
Frankfurt/Oder
border
Gross Neuendo:-f,
Erfurt, Marbast
1Pa ,
1
coal
iron
Leipzig
Yierseburg
Wittenberge
0
8 B
nonferrous
metal
Dresden
6 a
machinery
Ann
Brest Litovsk
4 *and F
14 3Rym
"
and F
12 6 41
pig, iron Fraanksfurt/Cdor
border
2 's
10 3
16 G
Wittenberge
Thale
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14 RRyri and
14 o F
25 F
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order
11
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Uolfen
Pima
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?4&gdeburg-Sua'rau
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raehrinery
grain
Mo rseburgg
Leipzig
Ness/Hafen
Frankfurt ration) 11;
supply depot
Wrtseburg
Ri :3sa
Gr::editz
Brost Litovsk
mashinery art'
machinery parts
PaAnt
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