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come at such an angle as the freight pulled out of a cut, that it caught the boxcars three-quartering and would actually stall a train that all calculations would show would go through without any trouble. MacKay says the basic wage rate is okay but they should adjust things so the railroads don't have to pay a 1000 and one crazy rates for work of a special character, all technicalities and hangovers from ancient days. He says its like paying the same rates for trucking on a mileage and tonnage basis now as they did when a man did it with a team of horses.

Jim and I had dinner at the Aschenbroedel a good steak like only the Aschenbroedel can cook. We finished dinner at 10 PM. Jim was in a loquacious mood and I got the inside story of the Interborough order we lost in the spring. Zimmer handled it alone, not asking any help from Jim, who knows the IRT from A to Z. Zim was so sure of his price, he wouldn't cut off a nickel and suddenly (W) had it. So Zim writes impetuously a letter to the Transit Commission insinuating that there was graft involved and since then the G.E. has been in bad completely. Jim says Zim was being groomed for Keyes job as Keyes is about through on account of ill health, but this ruined his chances. Jim doesn't think Walter Headley will get it; thinks Frank Faron in line which hardly makes sense to me.
 
Looks as though the freight test can't be run until next Tuesday because MacKay wants engine in regular service over the weekend and she "dies" tomorrow & will have to go to Van Nest for inspection Friday. So I guess I'm stuck till the middle of next week and will have to disappoint the family again for which I'm awfully sorry. 

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