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man, Gordon McDonald, Earl Bill, a versatile man anyhow, switched to multiple-unit car work and locomotives to some extent. Harry Harrington spent years working on the Alco diesel-electric equipment account. Clarke Baker died of leukemia in 1932, a wonderful guy, and a fine engineer. The Chilbergs returned to Schenectady. Don MacLeod became one of our finest locomotive men. This extensive organization ended in a one-man operation, Gordon McDonald, who retired a few years ago to pursue his hobby of viola making, at which he has become expert and gets around $3,000 per instrument so I am told.

[[underlined]] ELECTRIC LOCOMOTIVES [[/underlined]]: In 1930, there was a lot of electric locomotive work as that work went. There was the Cleveland Union Terminal, New Haven 0351's, the New York Central West Side freights, the New York Central and Lackawanna 3-powers, but most impressive of all, the Pennsylvania New York-to-Washington and Harrisburg 11,000-volt electrification. But as the diesels came on, the electrics slid off, with an occasional custom-built job like the New Haven 0361's on which I was to work in 1937 and 1938. There were also export orders periodically. But it was a sporadic business at best and never standardized like the diesels. Of this group, Brandenstein died around 1940, Brackett finally specialized in IGE work, Lynch followed the notorious steam-electric and eventually succeeded Frank Peters as transportation manager of our Central District, Tom Perkinson became disaffected about his progress in TED and moved back to Schenectady into I can't recall what and neither can anyone else; maybe I should ask him as I understand he's living in Schenectady in retirement. When H. L. Andrews went to Bridgeport, he lured A.E. Smith over there into the appliance business. Johnnie Walker moved to our New York Office, thence to our New Haven Office, thence to the New Haven Service Ship, and finished his career there, a very unhappy man. He's now retired and living in Florida, not too well. There is a lot in my diaries about him over the years.

[[underlined]] MINING AND INDUSTRIAL LOCOMOTIVES [[/underlined]]:
This business is still doing fairly well, I understand, although the three men listed are now dead. This was the operation I headed for several years in the 40's and was my stepping stone toward top management at Erie. Old George Shapter, about whom there is much in my dairies, died less than a year ago at close to ninety. He'd handled the Panama Canal towing locomotives back around 1912!
[[underlined]] GAS AND DIESEL-ELECTRIC LOCOMOTIVES AND EQUIPMENTS [[/underlined]]: "Gas" referred to gasoline and gasoline engines faded from the motive power picture as soon as reliable and economically-sound diesels were produced for motive power work. For years, we were restricted by Company policy from getting whole hog into