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So now I come to the 0361-0366 job for the New Haven, by far my most important assignment in 1937 as well as 1938. Although I had participated in some of the early conferences on this project such as the one at Van Nest in December 1936, I have no recollection of having been extremely active on the final round of negotiations preceding our getting the order. It was when I was busy on the wind-up of the Ford job. I think Maurice Guynes was the guiding genius in the home stretch. Of course, on these straight-electric locomotive jobs, our only competition on any domestic-railroad proposition, was Westinghouse, but they could be tough and particularly on the New Haven, which they had long considered their rightful preserve, with GE a bunch of interlopers to some extent. I'm sure Maurice was the one who brought home the bacon as far as Erie was concerned, getting help from the New York office, of course. I may have helped him with some of the details getting the proposition together--but the cold truth was that I knew very little about AC locomotives at this point and I had a lot of studying to do. I think the order was landed early in the summer. 

In order to start out with a clear picture of these locomotives, I'm inserting below a tabulation giving the basic data on them and including an outline drawing of them on the following page:

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Table 1. 0361-0366 Locomotives for the New York, New Haven and Hartford Railroad.

Type | 11,000-volt a-c, 660-volt d-c, high-speed passenger
Nomenclature | 2 - C + C - 2  432/270 6GEA622A, 11,000/660 volt
Dimensions | See figure 1
Weights-pounds:
  Total-fully loaded | 433,200
  On drivers | 272,400
  Per driving axle-average | 45,400
  On guiding | 160,800
  Per guiding axle-average | 40,200
  Mechanical parts | 269,400
  Electrical equipment | 163,800
Maximum safe speed-miles per hour | 93
Running gear | 2 - C + C - 2 wheel arrangement, cast stell trucks, plain journals
Cab construction | Streamlined, double end, all welded, outside truss type
Traction motors:
  Number and type | 6GEA622A twin armature
  Volts-maximum per armature | 300
  Method of drive | Gear, quill and spring cup
  Gear ratio and wheel size | 78/23 = 3.39;  56 inches
  Tractive effort at 25 per cent ad | 68,100
Locomotive rating-continuous: | A-C | D-C
  Tractive effort-pounds | 24,100 | 26,900
  Speed-miles per hour | 56.0 | 39.6
  Horsepower | 3,600 | 2,840
Maximum available horsepower | 7,600 | 5,500
Control:
  Alternating current | Electropneumatic, single unit, three circuit, single motor combination with 19 running notches
  Direct current | Electropneumatic, single unit, series-parallel with two running notches
Main transformer | Forced-flow forced-cooled synthetic-liquid type
Ventilation | Forced to all equipment by two combination blower-cleaners
Blower motors | Two two-speed a-c, one-speed d-c commutator type, forced ventilated, each with overhung control generator
Compressors | Two a-c d-c commutator type, self-ventilated, 100 cubic feet per minute displacement each
Train heating equipment | Oil-fired steam boiler
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