REPAIR OF LOCOMOTIVES IN EAST GERMANY

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• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80-00810A002800510002-6
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• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 3
• Document Creation Date: December 27, 2016
• Document Release Date: June 7, 2013
• Sequence Number: 2
• Publication Date: December 4, 1953
• Content Type: REPORT

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COUNTRY East Geriaany ' ' ? :: " '? y,~" ?` 1 ~~. ; . 64E D!STR. 4 December 1953
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PLACE
ACQUIRED
DATE OF
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? ain~ x.fo.t ion on tho niz :rc of ioco=tiv.;z repairc3
in August 1953:
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NO. OF EItCLS.
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%::PORT NO,
3 1
2 2 % z
2 8
2z 1 2 33 29
2 17 14
3
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7
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Stnrdal 4 5 12 15 10 .,
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T.:ittcat-r~s 1 2 2 3 5 3
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12
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2t?. The Basdorf and Luckenwalde repair installations a,-c subor-
dinated to the Tompelhof railroad repair shop. The figures under the
fraction stroke indicate tha number of locomotives which could not be
repaired during the reported period because of lack of material.
2. The following quotas for repair work on locomotives were fixed for
October 1953:
Railroad
Number of Locomotivo to Be Repaired
Repair Shop
in Damage Categories
LO
L2
L3
14
GR
El'
Tempelhof
4
13
7
2
2
25
Qottbas
8
8
6
15
3
33
Chemnitz
8
11
16
4
3
38
Schlauroth
2
8
8
-
2
.20
Zwickau
18
8
10
9
5
41
14e iningen
10
12
12
10
6
41
Halle
11
12
13
3
3
35
Leipzig
10
14-
15
5
8
46
Blankenburg
1
1
4
3
1
11
Stendal
11
14
10
26
2
52
Witterberge
3
2
3
1
1
12
86
103
104
78
36
33
354 ?
3.
istrations were excluded from this measure.
inspect all damaged locomotives and to determine which of thew may be 50X1-HUM
repaired in 1953 and 1954. Locomotives owned by foreign railroad admin.-
reports on observations made during the inspection in 1952/1953 of the
park of damigad locomotives have been sent to all milroad repair diops
for evaluation. At the same time, railroad repair shops were ordered to
niatration for Machinery. Locomotives of series of which fewer than 10 units
are in existence must?not be repaired. 50X1-HUM
locomotives more than 35 years
old may to rooaired only after the approval by the chief of the Main Adni-
will be Inspected as follows:
Berlin, between 10 and 15 September;
Cottbus, after 16 September;
Dresden, presumably after 21 September;
Greifswald, presumably after 5 October;
Schwerin, presur_+ably.after 12 October;
Magdeburg, presumably after 15 October;
Halle, presumably after 20 October;
Erfurt, presumably after 28 October. 4
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the rraesidium o the Fast Gorman unc of Ministers on 27 August 1953 foaled
a commission which 'will pass a final judgment on the dismantling of
locomotives proposed for deactivation. The individual railroad districts
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while
1. C mmen . In August, the repair quo
fulfilled 93 percent in July 1953, 50X1-HUM
t7 7,
2. QCoaiment, 50X1-HUM A total of 343 loco-
motives were scheduled to be xnaired in August 1953. An additional 86 lo-
comotives of damage category Lb are scheduled for repair In October.
3.
4.
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___JComment In 1953 and 1954, respectively 400 and 200 loco 50X1-HUM
the nark of dsnared locomotives were scheduled to be repaired.
a total. of 492 state-owned locomotives and 833
standard-gauge ore gn owned locomotives were carried in the park of damaged 11
locomotives.
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Co nt. Locomotives beyond repair are to be deactivated and ecrappea.
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