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the end of locomotive test and expect soon to go into one of the branches of the Railway Engineering Department which is moving shortly to Erie. This means probably that Erie will be home for Willie and me for a time at least, and I am not sorry for I like Erie very much. Oh, how marvelous to be planning a home! The dearest plan in all the world is ours now. How I want to live beautifully and make life a glorious thing, for now it promises so much, so very very much, and all it promises can be ours if [[underline]] I [[/underline]] but play the game. It is [[underline]] my [[/underline]] responsibility for our happiness and I must be worthy of it. I must be. ..... Today Somerville, Miller and I worked from 7:20 a.m. until 2 p.m., they on my little friend, the "Anglo Chilean," and I on writing up work on my "battleship," the 100-ton gas-electric-battery switcher for the Chicago & Northwestern. This locomotive is giving me some wonderful experience for it's the first of its type. And when I was first on loco test, I fussed and worried myself almost sick because I thought my experience there would be solely confined to the little Chileans, forgetting to trust, forgetting faith, forgetting everything I'd learned. Things have turned out marvelously and now I see the great error of not trusting as I should. The same was true about my job. I worried myself almost sick about it and now here it is turning out just beautifully. I had little faith.

Erie, Pa.,
Monday, September 20, 1926.

Worked all day on the "Battleship," which my loco has been affectionately christened. Mr. Devlin and Mr. Formanek directed operations while young Mr. Worth of the Electromotive Company was over again to look at the engine, which is behaving quite properly. It is interested to see how men who are supposed to be authorities, will argue a thing back and forth and apparently do things "cut and try" sometimes. It seems as though they should have had this generator problem all thrashed out long ago, but even now they don't seem to know exactly what they want; it strikes one oddly at times. ..... This evening, went to the movies and saw "Milton Sills and his chest expansion" in "Men of Steel." It was an entertaining movie but had too many climaxes to be really well constructed. Cooke was with me; he's always jolly and gives the impression of being a real man -- very genuine and worthwhile. I'd like to know him better and know more about him. I know he bummed around the country between his sophomore and junior years at Brown just for the adventure of it...... It was such a glorious night with a full moon that I took a walk up to the Central bridge at Wesleyville and watched the flyers go by. I never realized the beauty of white steam floating across the face of a bright moon -- dark purple fringed with silver and gold.