STOCK OF LOCOMOTIVES OF THE SOVIET ZONE RAILROADS

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• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP82-00457R008500520008-7
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• Document Creation Date: November 16, 2016
• Document Release Date: March 13, 2000
• Sequence Number: 8
• Publication Date: August 15, 1951
• Content Type: REPORT

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DATE OF CONTE~' ...:~?ZJ2 ,.,
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DATE OETA6UED _._._...-DATE PREPARED s..? 5 L11111" T.51
k'FERENCES
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/according to a taxi ation of loconoLives, obtained from tho Directorate
General, '`railroads, Jerli.n, the stocic of 1oco2.:c:'tivos on 31 ar 1951 was
w;
follon
Park of Operations:- Locomotives.
Types of
Under repair
a
for
Total
Par': of
Total
Locomotives
able
in lira
in
is T U."
.a
;Mock
Ja;m.a-- (x
Locomo-
tives
:stock
Locomotivos
3040
433
537
61.9
Lo, %?
764
5.53.
owned by the
Soviet acme
railroads '
13)
(L)
('E)
(l1)
(L5)
(45)
Column Loco-
323
16
16
21
376
376
Foreign-owned
Locomotives
23
3
2
28
1, 069
1,097
5p rrow-cause
117
27
26
3
203
.209
Locoii' otives
rote: ? ;r stands for minor repair shop.
-,ta_nds for r:a jor ro .~a& r shop,
CLASSIFICATION
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t'age in Gass. []
Declassified
slits. Cbanged To: TS S ; , .
~n#.m fly ~- ~3 0 11
pate: _Appx v~uar fise
3'omarl:s
includi?pr,
23 loco--
moc~el 01;
86 of nicde:?
50; 267 of
Model 52
including
10 loco: io-
tives of
600 r .m ;e,
147 with
750 nn
5 with 900 mm
auae; am l ) c
with 1,000 mm
,.au-e ~.~.
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SBi3Ut1TT IM TION
N te: (conttd) The figures in brackets indicate the number of coal dust
burning locomotives, abbrotria `.,ion ksto
2a Engines which are kept cold at xjous railroad stations of the Soviet Zone
include: 295 engines owned by the Soviet "one p ai lroads, 265 o- " which are
kept as a reserve of the Directorate General, Railroads, 1Jorlin, and 30 as a
reserve of re ional railroad headcuuarters; 191 column locomotives; and 1=
narro ,ai;go locomotives. ~;?,r
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*111110 lorlt o
--~?- The tabulation con-
tains an analysis of locnrnotit_e types and repairs prformod by the major and
ininor repair shops of the various regional railroad headquartoxsn A cornoari.-
son of -these figures with the last report is given belts e The park of
oporat ^rlal locomotives was inex3aced by 11, probably rep& r 1ccoric,tivesa
O n 1. April. 19,151, the park of operational locomotives owned b y the `'oviet rail-
rcads amounted to I ,756, including 3,255 serviceable locomotives and the park 25X1A
o.' darza~;ed locomotives amounted to 820. See
Thai nwber of serviceable locomotives has decreased by 107Dwhich indicates
that the maintenance status has deteriorated? The number of dama ;:;d loconoa
ti?.,as was reduced by 56. This was probably achieved to some extent by shift-dn
of repaired engines to the park cf operations otives but r .ostly by 55X1 A
25X1A deactivation of ?aginee beyond repa1z'. See r.ccordinr_ to a
pro-olous re ' r, scrapping, of locomotives was stop--)ad in lat'~. June 39'x'1,,
Se':.' Since 1 April 1;~5? , the number of coal dust blxnilg
j ,,
loro;~io =ves laa increased from ' 5 to 45. Of theca, barely one thir4 are service
able, which indicates that the Technical construction is not yet satisfactory.
25X1 A nu +'oer of colilrlrf 3. ~ .: ~aotiees was, still 376 as of 28 February 1951,
y,, t!" nt..'1 locomotives was decreased by 18, See para-~
graph 2 of rr
reign locomotives is the sans as on
2e I'?ec;r?raryo See pira ;raph The stock of harrow g auge
25X1A locomoti;res vas decreased b colnotive which was probably deactivated. 25X1A
w
R
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h of
Cornrie? _t_ The locono-tive reserves were increased since 2u February 1951 as
25X1 A follows : D:..rectorate General, R.ai.1road. y, Berlin, reserve by 8 locomotives;
25X1 A regional railroad headquarters reserve by 10 locomotives; and coltamn reserve by
33 locorlot?ivAs, See The 191 column locomotives, which are
being kept .old, belong to Locomotive Cc'3 urnns No 3, 6, 7., 9, 12 and 13 which
were deactivated in . the ocations on 1 July 1951 were
re;aortod previously, SeA.-W.-2- 'lhe-y are controlled exclusively
by the !^C!r! "'r ^a
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