Rockwell - Standard Picks Erie for Quick, Heavy, Move East

It isn't often that machinery to equip a whole factory moves in one train-but that's what happened on the Erie when the Rockwell-Standard Carp. was granted permission to set up an automobile bumper factory at Sao Paulo, Brazil, by the Brazilian government.

That permission was granted on March 29. Rockwell - Standard had to move fast, and have helpers who could move fast and accurately - for under the terms of the import license granted by the Brazilian government, the shipment had to be landed in Brazil by June 6.

Fortunately, Rockwell-Standard had the equipment, stored at New Castle, Pa., a point served by the Erie. Although the storage building was served by three other railroads, Rockwell-Standard made arrangements to have the whole of the shipment proceed to the east coast Erie all the way.

Among the required information on the huge pieces bound for Brazil was size data in millimeters - and there are more than 25 millimeters to an inch!

There are skids and skids and those under this load are big skids indeed.

There are skids and skids and those under this load are big skids indeed.

Two loads, one wide, the other high, shared a car on the high and wide road.

Some typical loads near the New Castle warehouse where they had been stored.

By April 1st, riggers and packers were engaged in crating the machinery-some pieces so big that 12 by 12's had to be used in framing the boxes, and cars of all kinds, including heavy duty Erie 7200's flat cars were under way for the plant.

And by April 28th, 26 cars of the shipment, some of them high and wide shipments, the heaviest single lading weighing 213,336 pounds, were moving in a special train to the port of New York via Erie.

There the entire factory equipment was loaded aboard a chartered steamer for Santos, port city for Sao Paulo.

Only one of many such, this load looks like a Juggernaut.

A whole factory moves east along the Erie. Final destination: Brazil.