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wrinkles from there to his crotch. He was around five-foot-ten with sloping shoulders like a muscle man or weight lifter and he always moved around at high speed with a shambling gait like a baboon moving from one tree to another. He had a bald head with a fringe of hair around the lower circumference, the hair always clipped to a length of maybe a half-inch and standing out straight. Moreover, his head was sort of pointed at the back. He had a smooth, aquiline face and wore silver-rimmed spectacles. He was very serious. I never recall seeing him smile. But he knew his motor mechanical design inside out and he was always busy at it. He seemed to be more affluent than most of his contemporaries and had a summer cottage at Chautauqua where his family spent the season. His daughter "Ozzie" married Jack Bates, one of the young motor engineers, and they are still going strong, Ozzie (Dorothy) being a character in her own right, a chip off the old block. It was seldom that any customer's representative was capable of telling Ralph anything about how his job should be done and I don't recall that any of the New Haven crew undertook to do it.

Lastly, there was Archie Currie, the compressor engineer. The compressor, which was designated CP-38, also was a new design throughout. It was a high-speed, water-cooled machine and it gave us more trouble than all the rest of the electrical equipment put together. Archie had more-or-less inherited the standard line of GE transportation compressors, which were slow-speed, air-cooled, conservatively-designed machines with an enviable record for utter excellence. So when he became involved in this new CP-38 design, he was at sea to a large extent and the record proved it. But Archie was deeply conscientious and he struggled with the situation through thick and thin. He was an odd-looking man--about six-foot-five with narrow, sloping shoulders and a gait that indicated he had a time keeping his whole lengthy frame in an upright position. He had a huge, drooping, gray moustache and a Scottish brogue that defies description. He was very serious, seldom smiled, but was always friendly. He had so little sense of humor that he never realized it if someone kidded him. Normally, Archie's business life was relatively calm and this job proved to be a most unpleasant distraction.

That concludes the roster of engineers I wanted to cover on this job. However, I must include some comments on Henry Disco, the relatively new superintendent of the locomotive shop where these locomotives were fabricated and assembled. I guess that Ed Kelly had been Erie in 1930 when the 0351s were built but the shop superintendent then was Old Man Emil Bartz, a veteran who knew the game well and apparently got along with Ed. I don't know where Hank Disco was then but he came originally from Pittsfield and hadn't really been brought up in the locomotive business. Hank had his points and knew how to manage a shop but he made the mistake of trying to make Ed

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