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Erie, Pa., Tuesday, Oct. 22, 1940.
After a breakfast in the Buffalo Central Terminal I went up to Gordon Hentz's office and learned that #506 was not working today (Geo. Wakeley told us yesterday, he thought it would) but was at the East Buffalo enginehouse being prepared for shipment to Dewitt. So I taxied out there and located her. "Deacon" McCrossin was there and Bill Devins and later Ken Wolf. The story was she did a good job in the Terminal yesterday except for lack of air which was very embarassing and delayed a couple of trains. At No. Tonawanda she did the other two jobs well and it looks like places for two or maybe three up there. The third job is now handled by a U (8 wheeler) and #506 may be a trifle skimpy.

Ken, Bill, the "Deacon" (who is a big, red faced, heavy jowled, tough looking customer), Galvin, the loud mouthed, wind baggy but well meant Cummins representative in Western New York, and I had lunch in a saloon adjacent to the enginehouse. For a wonder, it was neat as a pin and I thoroughly enjoyed a hot ham sandwich on white and two glasses of beer. Afterward Galvin insisted on driving me to the station in his new Olds and I caught the 1.14 PM for Erie.

En route we passed a troop tram going west on the Nickel Plate - flat cars carrying AA guns and trucks and Pullmans full of troops. Haven't seen anything like it since I was a kid in 1917 and 1918!
 
Got into the office for an hour, saw Whitey enough to say hello as he left en route out of town. Got home for dinner and found Rog has sold 34 out of 40 of his X-mas seal packages. So we're advancing him 60[[cent symbol]] so he can send the $4.00 in within two weeks and get an extra prize. I think he has done splendidly and I'm proud of him.

Transcription Notes:
"troop tram" is probably troop train.