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Re: (erielack) Cool Perry S.

Writing before checking Tabor but PMS was a university graduate who worked, 
among others, for the Erie, NYNH&H, and then the DL&W so he was hardly an 
up-through-the-ranks DL man thiough he did work from clerk IIRC on the Erie 
up, etc.  His first Division Superintendency was on the DL&W (the M&E, I 
think), then up -- I believe he was #1 or #2 in the Transportation 
Department at the time of Wayland.  William White, his predecessor as 
President of the DL&W, started on the NYS&W in a clerical position and made 
it to be General manager of the Erie's Western District c. 1937 when Carl 
Bucholz, a former Erie officer, and then President of the Virginian, brough 
White to the VGN as GM and later VP-O.  White left the VGN in 1941 to 
succeed J W Davis (IIRC), another former Erie officer, as President of the 
DL&W.
      The DL&W was managed by men who had worked for the Erie in their 
younger days from c. 1925 (when W H Truesdale, himself not origionally a 
DL&W man [try M&StL, etc] retired) to the merger with the Erie on 17 October 
1960.  The Erie, conversely, was managed by men who had earlier served other 
railroads almost from its formation to the 1941 ascendency of R. E. 
Woodruff, whose entire railroad career was with the Erie) to the Presidency. 
  He was followed by Paul W. Johnston and Harry Von Willer, both of whom 
worked their entire railroad career for the Erie.  M G McGinnis, the EL's 
first President, had also worked exclusively for the Erie.  His ultimate 
successor, Gregory Maxwell, was a former NYC/TRRA man that William White 
brought over.
      Thought this "geneology" might be of interest.  M J Connor

>From: Charles_Walsh_@_Berlex.com
>Reply-To: Charles_Walsh_@_Berlex.com
>To: Lederer73_@_aol.com
>CC: Erielack_@_lists.railfan.net, erielack-owner@lists.railfan.net
>Subject: Re: (erielack) Cool Perry S.
>Date: Wed, 6 Oct 2004 09:47:06 -0400
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>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.
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>Chuck
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>                                                     (erielack) Cool Perry 
>S.
>                       10/06/2004 09:36 AM
>                       Please respond to
>                       Lederer73
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>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
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>Summit, Perry got off the train, walked up to the engine, and handed PG the
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>cigar, and said "you did a good job"
>Sounds like he was a good blue collar man's boss..
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>-Pat L
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