RAILROAD ROLLING STOCK AND REPAIR SHOPS

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP82-00457R013900370008-4
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• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 19, 2016
• Document Release Date: February 9, 2006
• Sequence Number: 8
• Publication Date: September 16, 1952
• Content Type: REPORT

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CENTRAL I.JNTELL I GENCE AGENCY
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SECURITY INFORMATION
INFORMATION REPORT REPORT
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COUNTRY Yugoslavia
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SUBJECT Railroad Rolling Stock
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25X1 la The only repair shops in Yugoslavia for broad gauge rolling stock are located
in Zagreb a Maribor and Nis,, 'These shops are also able to rebuild old coaches
and to repair and even rebuild steam locomotiveso The main line passenger
coaches are sent into one of these three repair depots approximately once
every eighteen months for general overhaulo
2. From interrogation of various railroad people,, the following rough estimate:";.
of passenger rolling stock was obtaineds
Broad gauge ` 3.,,100 passenger coaches
Narrow gauge 600 passenger coaches
co Mail care G 250 broad. gauge cars
3. The number of steam locomotives was not ascertainable, but some conclusion
might be drawn from the fact that between 100 and 150 sets of locomotive
a
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t fi
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ve ye
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e new
Lectc lighting equipment mill be required per year over
equip existing locomotives apart from the 300 already supplied and pre-
sumably fitted* The proportion of broad to narrow gauge equipment is not
knowna
4. The railroad passenger car factory in Smederevska palanka,, 8erbia9 known as
Dragoslav Djordjevic t3osa91 has reoently been enlarged and by 1953 is exx
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pected to produce 300 broad gauge coaches per 7earo Fifty completed coac
are in the factory at the present tiieo Although the finish of these
coaches is exude compared to Western- European standards,, they are adequate
for internal operation on Yugoslav railroads. The political director of this
factory is Djuro Torbicao
The Serbian railroad industry is directed by an organization known as Glavna
Direkcija Masehinogradnje3, N0R0 Seabiao The political director is Svetislav
Z. Mil.ivojevic and his assistant is Herman Ast, a qualified engineers
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The - Sever facctc =, ed in b? ~. r?ianau ac turee electric .al g a to a up
ao M rtino o - Political director
be Tndjic Commercial manager
ce Mijetovic - Assistant coamerclt,l manager
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nai ad enterprise hao recent1[y placed an order with the 84Cidsa
factory for 12 three-car Diesel driven train sets (probably automatricee)
The trains are being designed by N einoprojekt and are to be air-conditioned*
The object is to encourage -tourist travelo
The'. legal adviser is Danko Sto jko' c who speaks good Englieh and is
enthueiaeticc nationali.ato
Alexander VIa jic a and he i o -.eeieted bb agineere Buutoreki and i4arkovice
Maeinoproji t9 which is located in'Belgradeo The political directcr? is
The railroad 'Cara a deeione4' a separate national enterprise called
8-o The principal being agincy for the railroads in Tehnoprdmet and the
personalities in this oonce:m area
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its p iii ~r..t6 the Hungarian bor0ro
.,greatly favored by Be grads `becauae
l etovio, e d that the fan ory was not
factor employs between j ' d 400 workmen. The direotor'D a ca iin
standard of ~o ship is l or but the equipment a ea onably ode ' ..Thy
vollteo The maxim . 'output of t ieee a nos ha' been - J one Yearn' The
'nth .J~s~nioa
Comments This factory cd b' identical
-acs oiy located at mederevaka Palankaa
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