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New Haven, Conn.
Wednesday, September 14, 1938.

Ran off our test today with 18 Pullmans, 1580 tons between New Haven and Penna. Station, round trip and all went 100%. Charlie Hess ran her and he did a swell job even to pulling out of a bad hole he made himself by not releasing quickly enough at New Rochelle Jct. on the return trip when we stalled on the cross overs. By we pulled'em out even there and Charlie said "she done a nice job pullin' eighteen wagons out of there." Had lunch in a diner near Penn Station, one of Charlie's hangouts and it was good mainly because the waiter was a regular salesman, making us all alluring propositions on what he'd given us for 55¢. His cries to the cooks were good too: "Three bowls!" (Soup) "One up!" (beer) "A pair of rolls – make'em cedar rolls; give him a break – make'em cedar rolls." After making the trip down to New York, Bob Walsh told Jim Smith he didn't see any sense of going back – he was all for dropping the return trip and staying in New York! And the return trip was the hardest drag up over Hell Gate and the very one the New Haven asked about! Harry Brown, Washington's man, said we took 12500 KW accelerating the train – without being geared to the task. 7000 KW is almost all we can possibly demand. After the test we have to see Stanley MacKay, Gen'l Supt. of Transportation, to convince him, we should run the freight test and we did finally succeed. Talked to MacKay for an hour or so while he gave his views on the railroad situation – he's a very interesting man and a very pleasant one to deal with. Talking of train resistance and tonnage calculations, he pointed out there were factors one couldn't calculate as for example, a place Wickford Hill, on the New Haven, where the wind would

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