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produced a better job myself with my Filmo 8. It did have some good skiing shots but the rest of it was a farce. They were making better pictures in every way here 20 years ago! Even the photography was terrible. I can't figure it out yet. Boston, Mass. Wednesday, Dec. 7, 1938. Harrison and I spent most of the day at the hotel writing up notes, etc. We ran across one trick in Boston recorded as follows on the B&M switcher report: Due | Start Work | Lunch | Stop Work 7:00AM | 7:00AM | 4:00AM | 7:00AM We questioned Jack Tobin about it and he called a clerk in the Supt's office, queried him as follows: "You got the sheet for Nov. 23rd there; Mystic Jct? Well, look at the last trick for locomotive 641. He was due at 7:00AM. He went to work at 7:00AM. Then he had lunch at 4:00AM; he had an early lunch, three hours before he went to work. Then he quit work when he started. In other words, how high is up?" This man Tobin is a good egg and certainly has a sense of humor. I understand he's just beginning to be himself again; his wife died recently, left him with two youngsters and they say for weeks he was on the brink of losing his mind, he took it so hard.