RAIL TRAFFIC THROUGH BACAU STATION

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• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 20, 2016
• Document Release Date: March 21, 2006
• Sequence Number: 2
• Publication Date: December 5, 1952
• Content Type: REPORT

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FEI! 1952 51-aLAA
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CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY
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INFORMATION REPORT REPORT NO.
COUNTRY Rumania
25X1 SUBJECT Rail Traffic through Bacau Station
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DATE DISTR. 5 December 1952
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1. The.Bacau railroad station is located on the Bucharest-Viscani line
and on the line which connects Piatra Neamit with Bacau. The Bucharest-
Viscani line is double track to Marasesti and single track to Viscani.
Rails on both single and double track sections are "4211 type. Approxi-
mately 1,000 persons are employed at the station, 360 of whom work in
the traffic department and 150 in the technical section and depots.
2. The Bacau station has at its disposal 12 freight engines with a hauling
capacity of 1,000 tons each, 8 passenger engines with a hauling capacity of
450 tons each, and 2 switch engines with a capacity of 450 tons each.
Approximately 200 cars are loaded and unloaded daily at Bacau. The
station has a slightly higher potential than this, but it is not reached
because of a shortage of cars. Approximately BO percent of all Rumanian
freight cars have a capacity of 15 tons, the remaining 20 percent have
10 and 20 ton capacities.
3. The following consignment of goods, 80 percent of which were sent by
Sovromtransport, passed through the Bacau station:
a. Approximately 400 tons of trimmed lumber daily from Bicaz to
Constanta and Galati.
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foreign property left in Rumania a er or ar an are not
sent abroad)
were intended for Hungary. They. are loaded on Rumanian cars=
the direction of Hungary via the Valea Lui Mihai, Curtici and
Episcopia-Bihorului stations. (It is not known if these planks
b. Approximately 2,000 tons of cut planks daily from Piatra-Neamt and
Rasnov to Constanta and Galati, and large quantities of planks in
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c, Large quantities of specially packed planks for manufacturing
crates from Rasnov and Bacau to Galati, Constanta, and Galati, and
smaller quantities to Bucharest, Lugoj, and Braila.
d. Approximately 300 tons of cement daily from Turda to the USSR
via Socola,
e. Approximately 100 tons of lampblack daily in the direction of
Socola,
f. Approximately 150 tons of grain (wheat, corn., and beans) daily from
Comcereal at Bacau and Roman to Constanta and Galati.
g. Approximately 3,000 tons of gasoline, kerosene, and solar oil
daily from Valea Uzului via Adjud to the Palace storage tanks at
Constanta,
.h. In autumn 1951 approximately 100 tons of nuts were sent from Bacau
to.Socola and Constanta,
i, In autumn 1951 approximately 1,500 tons (?) of sugar daily from
Roman to Constantao
j. Approximately 20 head of cattle daily from Transylvania and Sascut,
where there is waste feed from a sugar refinery, to Socola,
k, Approximately 100 tons of ammunition monthly to a depot at Itesti.,
about 10 kilometers from Bacau,
1. Approximately 2,000 tons of coke monthly from the USSR via Dornesti
and Radauti for tlhe Hunedoara works.
m. Refrigerator cars with pork from the Suceava-Burdujeni abattoirs
to Czechoslovakia.
4. The USSR sends railroad cars for repair to the Grivita workshops. Six
to eight repaired and overhauled cars, with all particulars written on
them in Russian, are returned to the USSR every three months. One
locomotive of German make was sent from the Resita works via Socola to
the USSR.
5,. A special railroad car passes through Bacau three times per week to
pick up prisoners Twho are being transferred or being taken for trial,
6. The railroad bridges between Bacau and Roman, and the one just north
of Roman, are in good condition. Freight trains cross them at their
normal speed of 40 kilometers per hour.
7. There is no shortage of railroad ties and rails, the latter being
supplied by the Resita works in sufficient quantities.
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