MILITARY INFORMATION ON RAILROAD OPERATIONS

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP82-00457R006800770015-4
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: March 22, 2011
• Sequence Number: 15
• Publication Date: January 11, 1951
• Content Type: REPORT

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TOPIC ~ !li tart' Information on Railroad 'Operations
EVALUATI O N
DATE OF CONTENT
DATE OBTAINED
REFERENCES
PAGES 2 ENCLOSURES (NO. & TYPE)
REMARKS Document Noy
this document is hereby regraded to
C- N"lDENTIAL in accordance with the
letter of 16 October 1978 from the
Director of Central ne
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1. Two 120-axle trains of heavy-duty cars passed through Frankfurt/
Oder toward Brest Litovsk, one on 16 and one on 17 December 1950.
2. Two military trains passed through Fra fort/Oder on 17 and 13
December l coming from Brest Litovsk.
. The train observed on 50X1-HUM
18 December carried_172-mm artillery pieces and motor vehicles,
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he number of trains on the Brest Litovsk-Frankfurt/Oder line in
both directions has been doubled to a daily total of 16 to 18
trains,
4. The 11alascewice marshaling yard in the Brest Litovsk area, which
is the railhead of Soviet wide-gauge tracks, would allegedly be
ready for operation within three or four weeks.
The bridge across the Bug River carried a standard-gauge and a
wide-gauge track.
The personnel of the locomotive columns in Frankfurt/Oder were
restricted to quarters. It was r d that deactivated columns
would be put back into operation *** 50X1-HUM
Co e t. The artillery pieces were presumably of
standard. caliber 52 mm,~
Soviet,
arrangements have been made for 13 trains
and one reserve train to operate via Frankfurt/Oder, a tbound
within the framework of Soviet transit traffiri=
indications that this number is to be in.creas
CLASSIFICATION
CONFIDENTIAL
11 January 1951
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