diff --git a/egs/librispeech/ASR/incremental_transf/.train.py.swp b/egs/librispeech/ASR/incremental_transf/.train.py.swp
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..e5d8188d6
Binary files /dev/null and b/egs/librispeech/ASR/incremental_transf/.train.py.swp differ
diff --git a/egs/librispeech/ASR/incremental_transf/train.py b/egs/librispeech/ASR/incremental_transf/train.py
index 567ceafa7..31dc766c6 100755
--- a/egs/librispeech/ASR/incremental_transf/train.py
+++ b/egs/librispeech/ASR/incremental_transf/train.py
@@ -535,7 +535,8 @@ def load_checkpoint_if_available(
     elif params.start_epoch > 1:
         filename = params.exp_dir / f"epoch-{params.start_epoch-1}.pt"
     else:
-        return None
+        filename = params.exp_dir / f"../conformer_24layer.pt"
+        #return None
 
     assert filename.is_file(), f"{filename} does not exist!"