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Because of our impending entrance into the war and the vital importance of the Panama Canal, a third set of locks were projected for the canal. George Shapter was sent to Panama to gather the necessary information to allow us to prepare a proposal on the towing locomotives for the new locks and he was to be gone two months or so. We were too busy to get along for that long minus a man so arrangements were made to borrow Joseph T. Bailey from the Industrial Department in Schenectady while Shap was away. Joe had worked for us before on temporary assignments and was not only slightly familiar with our business but also was one of the most promising young men in the industrial sales area of the Company. I'd been so impressed with Joe that I'd tried to persuade various people to hire him into Transportation but Joe himself wasn't interested and nothing came of it at that time. Later he did come but under different circumstances -- about 20 years later. I'm bringing Joe into the picture because he's an interesting guy who's had an unusual career and I knew him quite well for a number of years. Joe married an Erie girl whom I didn't know; in fact, I didn't know he'd married an Erie girl until she died in Schenectady and Joe brought her here for burial and several of us went to the funeral. Their marriage was short and childless. Joe's second wife was Barbara Clark, the daughter of Cliff Clark of the Federal & Marine Department in Schenectady. I'd worked on government stuff with Cliff in 1940 and thought a lot of him but I'd never met Barbara. But I got to know her very well after she married Joe and they had me at their apartment for meals and we had a lot of fun together on several occasions when I visited Schenectady. But Joe decided to cast his lot with the Industrial product end of the Company and he was very successful, finally becoming general manager of the industrial lighting department at Hendersonville, North Carolina, and after that as I recall it, the General Purpose Control Department somewhere in Ohio. By this time it was approaching 1960 and I have a vague recollection that somehow Joe was tainted in the great anti-trust drive against GE about that time although never indicted. However, it may have proved expedient to move him out of Control and at long last he joined what was then the Locomotive & Car Equipment Dept. at Erie as manager of the Locomotive Section after Frank Compton had been tried in that job and found wanting. Joe and Barbara were welcomed into the Erie-GE family with open arms. He bought a cruiser and joined the Erie Yacht Club. They had an attractive teenage daughter. But tragically it became fairly apparent that Barbara was either an alcoholic or right on the verge. Oscar Dunn was our division general manager and he was obviously aware of this, to Joe's detriment. I recall a party at our house attended by the Baileys and Dunns and Oscar hung around until the last dog was hung right along with the Baileys apparently to observe just how far she would go with her drinking and it was too far. On top of this situation, the locomotive