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For we'd started the day by meeting for breakfast at 6:30 a.m. (Jay arriving at 8) and then walked in the shop until 10:30 before going to the picnic. Bill dropped a nickel in a Bldg. 6 slot machine, pushed the lever, and received four candy bars plus his nickel back, the nickel then securing a fifth bar, one for each of us. We told Bill that was just real old Erie hospitality. I got nearer to Guynes that weekend than ever before and I liked him better than ever.

Below is a photo of a New Haven 0351 Class engine, ten of which were built in 1931 and delivered in the late summer and early fall. This shot was taken from a New Haven publication given to me by Ed Kelly not long before he died. As I have mentioned, A.E.Smith followed this order, and Bob Walsh had charge of the layout in Locomotive Engineering. I was to learn later that Bob exhibited the same laziness and lack of interest on these locomotives after they'd been shipped as he did with me on the 0361s in 1938, and A.E.Smith, a very intense guy, said he never wanted to work on another job with Bob. It is a question whether Bob's incipient tuberculosis had anything to do with this. But anyhow, I happened to be in New York in the fall of 1931 when they were about to make some tests on the 0351s and was asked to help in the testing. And I thereby became involved in one of the most shocking incidents of my business career.

[[image - black & white photograph of locomotive 0355]]

[[caption]]ELECTRIC PASSENGER LOCOMOTIVE 0355
Built in 1931, capable of hauling 1200 tons at 65 m.p.h. Specifications: Wheel arrangement 2-c+c-2 having twelve 225 HP motors arranged in pairs above each of the 6 main driving axels with total capacity of 2700 HP weight on drivers 274,000 lbs. total weight 403,500 lbs., maximum tractive effort 68,500 lbs.

NOTE: All passenger locomotives are equipped for AC used in the “overhead wire” system on the New Haven main line, and the AC system into Pennsylvania Station, they are also equipped for DC used in the "third rail" system from Woodlawn into Grand Central Terminal. All passenger locomotives have oil-fired steam boilers to provide steam heat for passenger cars in cold weather.[[/caption]]