"Palace Coup" Which Ousted Pevler

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On Mar 7, 2015 10:32 AM, "Edwin Painter" <edwinpainter at gmail.com> wrote:

> If you don't have the book ........Herman Pevler wanted to name the
> Operations VP from Chessie (actually at that time it was still C&O-B&O - it
> wasn't Chessie until 1972) as his successor (I couldn't find his name
> anywhere in the book)
>
> Looking at a April 27,1969 C&O-B&O Operating Rules book I have in my
> collection ......C.V. Cowan was VP Operations C&O-B&O at that time.
>
> Can anyone confirm this was who Pevler had chosen?
>
> To elaborate on Fishwick being with the D&H........he had been working in
> Cleveland, OH as President of DERECO, an arms length subsidiary of the N&W,
> that was composed of both the Erie Lackawanna and Delaware and Hudson
> Railways.
>
> Ed Painter - from Narrows, VA living in North Georgia
>
>
> On Mar 6, 2015, at 8:29 PM, NW Mailing List via NW-Mailing-List <
> nw-mailing-list at nwhs.org> wrote:
>
>  My copy was handy.  You are right.  See pp 99-101 and the caption to the
> photo on p 129.
>
> Dave Phelps
>
>  In a message dated 3/6/2015 8:24:33 P.M. Eastern Standard Time,
> nw-mailing-list at nwhs.org writes:
>
> If I remember my railroad books correctly I believe that was discussed in
> the book, “The Men Who Loved Railroads”.  I’ve have to dig it out to check.
>
>
>
> George Weber
>
>
>
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> *Sent:* Friday, March 06, 2015 3:46 PM
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> *Subject:* "Palace Coup" Which Ousted Pevler
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>
> Another railroad list today carried a post which mentioned the N&W's
> "palace coup of 1970," which ousted Pevler and brought Fishwick back from
> the D&H to Roanoke as President of the railroad.  The intimation was that
> the coup occurred when Pevler let it be known  he was recommending someone
> from outside the N&W as his replacement in the president's chair.
>
>
>
> What were the details, and who were the players?  And whom did Pevler
> intent to recommend?
>
>
>
> -- abram burnett
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