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This is a shame, I drive by this plant twice a day to and from work I`ve seen low boys coming out of there with the really big front end loaders, for the big ones it takes 4 trucks to take them out of there. About 5 years ago I took the test to get a job there, I failed the test now I`m glad I didn`t get the job.
Tom, I should have been clearer. The plant was shipping 24-30 loads of equipment each and every day by the late 60s. Plant started out building crawlers(D-4s,etc), then as wheel loaders were developed, it also built those. The volume of crawlers slowly shrank while the volume of wheel loaders literally sky rocketed. There were large, medium and small Wheel loaders. The largest required three HTTX flats to carry the machine,tires,cab,bucket etc. Always struck me that the plant would build these monstrous machines and then spend huge amounts of effort breaking them apart. Whether early on and served by switch crews or after 1964 by a road wayfreight, the jobs and cars were Eola based. It was routine to pull into Eola at the end of a long day switching at CAT to find the east yard 4PM job switching the train from the night before. And in the west yard would be cars of CATs lined up for west and north movement. I could go into great detail but have already done so in article for the BRHS for future Publication. Leo
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