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1) New grills in front doors. No change in tank bulkhead doors.

2) Louvers in all side doors, design to be determined.

3) Ventilators over DC grids.

4) Speed up blowers slightly on DC for better grid cooling and more boiler draft.

5) Speed up blowers on AC 7 to 8 turns, summer only.

6) Arrange damper at transformer to open on DC with reverse handle in neutral.

7) In clear weather, run with all louvers open. Rainy, old set-up.

Note: Consider stops on boiler end side doors instead of louvers.

Rum with aisle doors open with boiler trailing.

Following this, we took data on a number of runs under all sorts of conditions and arrangements and with the boiler on and off as well as leading and trailing. I believe that we finally adopted a program essentially like that outlined above. Who paid for the changes, I don't remember but I'd guess that we split them with the railroad.

Sidney Withington was Electrical Engineer of the New Haven and quite a well-known man in electrification circles particularly with relation to power supply. He was a big, tall, rather homely, middle-aged New Englander whom John Mitchell, Nixon's ill-fated attorney general, reminds me of. It was Sid who was greatly concerned for a while about the relatively heavy demands these, new engines were putting on his power supply system. So, on June 22nd, we visited Sidney at his New Haven office and presented him with a full set of curves showing the locomotives' power demands under all conditions and these seemed to satisfy him, at least for the time being. I say this because during the September tests to come, Withington's people claimed that 0364, on a certain acceleration, had drawn an unbelievable 12,500 kw. and we were quick to assure them that without being geared to the track, 0364 couldn't possibly have drawn over 7,000. Sid was a leading light in the AIEE at the time and inclined to be a bit serious but he could loosen up and did occasionally although I never got to know him well because he had virtually nothing to do with the locomotives as such--only as threats to his power supply system. But I have a memo of one anecdote Sid told which I still think is pretty good so I'll