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a kick out of the potato trains coming down from Aroostook County - one went by with 115 cars of potatoes double headed, and there were some 300 cars of potatoes in three trains within a few hours of each other.

Neal and I rode down to Portland with Ernie Bloss. He went on to Boston on the "Flying Yankee" and we went to the Eastland to spend the night and see Wood in the morning, not having had a chance to talk to him peacefully today on the engine. We went down to Kid Donahue's place for some ale before retiring and I lost $1 to Neal on a bet that a man sitting near us was Frank Jones of Philadelphia - he was the living image of him from where I sat but finally when he got up and I saw him full face, I realized I was wrong. We got into conversation with a young fellow from the City Engineer's Office, who looked a lot like John Coolidge and proved to be congenial company as we imbibed Kid Donahue's famed "mixes."

Boston, Mass.,
Mar. 8, 1940.

We had a nice talk with Wood this morning and he reflected the reports we had heard about Tarzan Jr. being a little  too slow. I mentioned the more powerful variety as a way out and he seemed to think that a pretty good idea. Wood is a real gentleman. He never curses the unions about their unreasonable demands - only talks about them as one would about some misguided children.

We went down to Boston on the "Pine Tree" getting in at 2:10 PM and almost immediately went into session with Larry Richardson, who now thinks he might work in a 1000 HP Alco. between Fitchburg