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was a joy to watch in her spick wine colored uniform with neat white apron and cap - to hear as she talked in her low, clean, lovely young voice, pleasant, poised, with a slight smile. My reaction to her was entirely fine. [[strikethrough]] ? [[/strikethrough]]

After breakfast, we phoned the office, learned Roy was en route to meet us here - but disturbing was the news that #111 and 113 had broken down "somewhere in New York State" and had returned to Erie for repairs! Bearing trouble was all we knew - I guessed suspension bearings. That news saddened me considerably. We went up to Jim Moriarity's office where we found him, dapper as ever in a gray tweed suit, and stolid old Duff Foster, road foreman. Spent the rest of the morning "gabbing" with them as Neil would say. Subjects:

1.) They made the Woodsville job really suitable for the 44 ton unit by changing their passenger yard up at the depot into a freight yard and largely eliminating the operation in the "hole" where Tarzan Jr. was crucified trying to haul drags up the ramp that were way over its capacity. Also, they put on an extra trick for the switcher which now does all the switching that was done by road crews at exhorbitant rates! Result: They get the extra trick for nothing and give their consignees much better service.

2.) Berlin promises to be a tough assignment and Jim and Duff are going up there to work it out - intimated they would work it out just as they did at Woodsville. The purpose is to put a switcher at Berlin, where there is none now, to do the switching now done by road crews, and to do work now done for the B&M by the Brown Co. This all shows how jobs develop from a first push to get things started.