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tragic time with their marriage because of health problems as the years unfolded. It was virtually inevitable that the suave Walsh and the frank, tough-minded, thoroughly-experienced Ed Kelly would clash and they did. One of the most famous encounters between them occurred in connection with a micalex insulator layout which Walsh had shown to Ed and Ed had criticized. Walsh had been very active on the design of the Pennsylvania GG-1 passenger locomotives and when Ed made some rather caustic comments regarding the insulator layout, Walsh said: "Ed, we've had that same arrangement on every one of the GG-1s on the Pennsy and we haven't had a bit of trouble with it." Ed's reply: "Maybe [[underlined]] you [[/underlined]] haven't had any trouble with it but how do you know that [[underlined]] they [[/underlined]] haven't had any? [[underlined]] You [[/underlined]] didn't have any trouble with the 0351s but [[underlined]] we [[/underlined]] had to rebuild 'em."

The mechanical design was made under the direction of Ole K. Kjolseth, the six-foot-five, white-maned, goateed Norwegian who had the respect of everyone and seldom made any mistakes. Here was a man with great presence. Whenever we seemed to have a problem putting across some mechanical feature with a customer, usually all it took was to merely let them have a casual [[underlined]] look [[/underlined]] at "the Big Count" to convince them all was okay.  He always wore beautiful tweed suits and he was such a big, tall man that I really think I could have worn one of his suit jackets for a topcoat with little change.

The locomotive had cast-steel driving-truck frames as well as guiding trucks and on a big, involved design like this, General Steel Castings, who supplied these frames, would put a designer right into our locomotive drafting room to make their drawings in order to minimize coordination problems. So this was another member of the design team although he seldom figured in our meetings with the New Haven people.

Henry Disco was still superintendent of the locomotive shop and Ed Kelly frequently bristled when Hank tried to mollify him with arguments that Ed thought were entirely illegitimate if not downright slippery. Disco was still "that sunnabitch Crisco" only more so. Dick Miller was Disco's assistant and stood fairly well up on Ed's list, however. Ed had Mock and Dutch Law representing him in residence and Ed would occasionally put on quite a show for us regarding the orders under which Mock and Dutch worked. If they failed to get a reputation established of being full-fledged sons of bitches, they were in grave danger of being fired. Any inspector who became a favorite of a builder simply couldn't be doing his job and should be removed. After one of these tirades about the qualifications of a really fine inspector, Ed would give me a lightning wink accompanied by just the flicker of a smile. 

I failed to mention two other GE designing engineers who figured in this job, both from the Transformer Department in Pittsfield who supplied the power transformer and the "pigs" or preventative coils for the traction motor circuits. The transformer designer was a middle-aged, smooth-faced, well-dressed

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