MISCELLANEOUS RAILROAD INFORMATION

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• Document Creation Date: December 19, 2016
• Document Release Date: July 12, 2005
• Sequence Number: 1
• Publication Date: March 15, 1954
• Content Type: REPORT

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CENTRAL INTELLU31ENCE AGENCY
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'QUP4T East Germany
UBJECT tiisce.1laneous Railroad In-fomation
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REPORT NO.
31
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11-lHS IS UNEVALUATED INFORMATION
2 Jam ry 19`A, ea res tr
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c~ C `1_ 6ivcd' in the snel ent .
31n0e 1 Januar 1954, the c eisi ;rs t ior! rera rations goods has no 2ong,,3r been
The eshi3 netts r now d;eolvred as export deliveries, The Oeru1 re agency
Y,,ae reranetf Deutrans
December 1953,. the Berl 1n- ittat -fast trait derailed near Best .nsse to-
{?r ezae a t- a rail breakage..
:'n 2 January 1954. a test run was mad s, between Prankturt/Oder and te1in, by
f -l" r ss nting a woodon superstruotuurr, having the 'profile of a Soviet rail-
= s- ~A Jaywary, a siailar test run was made on the Xoepeni&k?-Wuensdorf-
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,*r't{n Kramer, Deputy . lroad M}r}3 gt;er in charge of operations resum his
n xrictions on a3 Janusr^y 114,514 : 'ebmannx (fnu) who still works at the Ra-l-road
Ministry apparently functions xs ' deputy to Kramer. 4
" early December 19531 0 locomotives, 4 cabooses and 1 tool
perk at the
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e `nit;% ratir. d station. A total of 10 >eair ,er tcse men
were assigned to these 1oconc tive3s, 5
December 1953 16 reserve loo io ives narked on a Tiding
of the ?br?att an burg- Rsevalk railroad line, about 100 meters asst of the
aeb g railroad static>n. o
On 1,4 Aereribex
ere wag
if_r1ch suC Steam iooomozivel , 3 heating loocznotitres, 31 terxders. 5 tnderfr es
., oOomot1vee and I heating unit were to be scrapped The diz stttl ing work Is to
no-rf'?a3-nxwi irF- #i,d f"n1 1^viKr7 w.n4---A ,..,...ad ~i-.aaa2
3 reserve loccstotives at Duvherow.
change in the status of the locomotive sxoltmmn
a-k # December, the East German Ahnistry of Railroads issued an order', according
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dwo-al .ed between falls and
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Railroad Repair' Locomotive Heating
5:iop Locomotive
Schlauroth
Halle
16
Tender Underframes Heating Unit
Leipzig 23
Stendal 7
Zwickau 7
Meiningen 14
Cottbus 7
Blankenburg 2
Chemnitz 16
100 3 31
25,561
26,546
29,313
29,775
28,176
29,310
29,604
29,939
30,286
31,365
32,032
10? the following numbers of rail-
roa cars were loaded In 1952 and 1953:
1952 1953
Number of Cars Number of Cars
Month. Loaded Assigned to Park of Loaded Assigned to Park of
Operational Railroad Operational Railroad
Cars Cars.
January 23,499 87,828
February 23,834 86,047
March 24,748 88,630
April 25,286 86,022
May 25,213 84,186
June 26,109 87,343
July 26,115 86, 612
August 26,373 88,341
September 26,666 93,920
October 26,634 97,701
November 26,440 983,143
December 27,300 102,636
98,407
97,221
102,097
96,634
94,443
97,119
100,099
99,835
104,512
106,264
109,524
data not yet available
11. Directives issued for 1954 indicate that the Main Administration for Rolling
Stock of the Ministry of Railroad was assigned the mission to establish, by
31 August 1954, a reserve pool of 10,000 inspected freight cars of all types.
These cars were to be kept available for the handling of the fall peak traffic. 10
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1.~ ent? 4,204 rail breakages
occurred in East, ermany between anuary and I October 1953. This fact throws
si-nificant lipht up 4- he poor physical status of tracks in East Germany. C
:.2.. In early January 1954, the Ministry of Railroads ordered all railroad sub-
district offices that they start establishing a pool of reserve trains. This
pool was to consist of 6 trains of gondola cars which were to be inspected not
before 30 April 1954. 6 trains of transit worthy gondola oars and 2 trains of
transit--worthy 1atcars. The latter two trains were not to be inspected before
30 June 1954. 1
13. The Ministry of Railroads issued an order, accord zg to which a pool of 200 re-J-L
serve locomotives be formed by 1 September 1954.
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C fit. Prior to 1 January 1954, the Deutaoh-Russische Transportgeseli-
se a (German-Russian Transport Company) (Derutra) had been in charge of all
Soviet interest shiixnents. It appears that the renaming of this agency in no
gray changed its character,
3. Co a?t~ Soviet railroad cars, owing to the wider gauge of the Soviet
railroad system are more bulky than standardized European cars. This makes it
difficult to utilize Soviet cars on a standard gauge railroad system because
all dimentions for platform edges, tunnels, distances of signals etc. were laid
down with regard to the smaller size of the European standardized equipment.
However, experiences made during the war show that these difficulties are not
unsurmountable. The test run of a German railroad car mounting a superstructure
having the dimensions of a Soviet freight car deserves some Interest. The experi-
ment may have been made in view of future mobilization measures or with the inten-
tion of finding out whether Soviet rolling stock might be used to ease the criti-
cal shortage of freight cars in East Germany.
The locomotives observed belong to deactivated locomotive column
which in May 1953 moved from Blumenhagen to Loecknitz, east of Paseu-alk.
Comment. Theso locomotives belong to deactivated locomotive column
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ent. This observation confirms I I
ve columnI n Ducherow
and .n Ruedriitz.
LC nt. A special commission had been assigned the task to cheek on th
possibility of scrapping heavily damaged locomotives.
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as they show the graduall
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nereasing performance of the East German railroads. The increase in the number
ofoperational railroad cars was mainly due to the repurchase of 20,000 former
German freight cars from the USSR in the second half of 1952. Only a few of the
railroad cars were newly built in East Germany.
lC.L____h2M n_t- The establishment of pools of reserve cars to be available for
periods of peak traffic is nothing unusual. Of course there is always a possibi-
lity that such reserve cars may be used for military purposes.
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are also going to establish a pool of reserve locomotives. Reserve locomotives
available on 30 November 1953 included 41 locomotives at the disposal of the
Ministry of Railroads, and 18 locomotives at the disposal of regional railroad
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eadquarters. A total of 75 locomotives were assigned to locomotive an]rmns-
which are exclusively at the disposal of the Soviets.
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