Dear Pat,
I agree. Shoemaker, according to Taber's book, was the only president of
the DL&W to have worked his way up through the ranks. All the other
presidents, from the beginning in the 1850s, had started with other
companies.
Chuck
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(erielack) Cool Perry S.
10/06/2004 09:36 AM
Please respond to
Lederer73
DLW engineer PG Bohrer took me down into his cellar one day, smiled and
showed me an old cigar, still wrapped..
I asked him ?
He said he had an exectutive inspection train one day and while stopped in
Summit, Perry got off the train, walked up to the engine, and handed PG the
cigar, and said "you did a good job"
Sounds like he was a good blue collar man's boss..
- -Pat L
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