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Boston, Mass.
Monday, Jan. 9. 1939.
Caught the "Flying Yankee" for Biddeford at 8:30 AM and was there at 8:47 ready to contact Mr. Butler the general freight agent in the inevitable freight house. I found him to be a small, elderly, bespectacled, florid gentleman who might have high blood pressure. He was extremely pleasant and treated me very well, as all the B&M people have. I found the job light as reported and I had time to tramp around and actually see most of the trackage. Nothing unusual happened at Biddeford except I almost left without my brief case - remembered it just as the train was "comin' round the bend." Got down to Dover about 12:30 PM had lunch and then looked up Mr. Caine, Supt. of the Portland Div. And again I found a very pleasant, likeable, unassuming sort of man, middle aged, a bit florid and weatherbeaten, and had quite a talk with him. Strangely enough, a couple of looks at a 30 ton Plymouth gas-mechanical had sold him on a small locomotive for Biddeford. She "batted im out" fast enough to suit him. So it looks like Biddeford is a good bet also. He told me also of the time they hung seven coaches behind the I-R 1140 rail car up the branch to No. Conway and she only lost 2 or 3 minutes but "blew her guts out someway" doing it. He was all praises for the "Flying Yankee" though. Getting through with Mr. Caine about 2:30 and the train being due to leave for Boston at 4:59 PM, I went to see "The Dawn Patrol" with Errol Flynn,

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