N&W in 1912--2 items: lifeless; speculation

[NW Mailing List]

Isn't this around the time the Henry Ford took over the DT&I?

Ed

On 2/18/2012 11:30 AM, NW Mailing List wrote:

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> Re: Who will it be?

> Presumably the paper meant the DETROIT, TOLEDO and IRONTON Railway 

> [not Dayton].

>

> Jim Stapleton [just want Gordon to know we actually read his snippets]

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> On 2/18/2012 10:26 AM, NW Mailing List wrote:

>> Bluefield Daily Telegraph

>> Fri., March 29, 1912

>>

>> WHO WILL IT BE?

>> *Probably a Division Superintendent May be Promoted to Succeed George P.

>> Johnson.*

>> Speculation is already rife as to who will succeed George P. Johnson as

>> general superintendent of the Norfolk and Western Railway.

>> Some officials believe that one of the present division superintendents

>> will be promoted to the vacancy while others think that the office will

>> be abolished and but one general superintendent retained for the entire

>> system as in former years.

>> Mr. Johnson's coming appointment as receiver of the Dayton, Toledo and

>> Ironton Railway is regarded as indicative of the road some day passing

>> into the hands of the Norfolk and Western. At any rate it will be used

>> by the Norfolk and Western as an outlet to the lakes at Toledo and will

>> also give a good Chicago connection via the Erie road from Lima. The

>> Norfolk and Western for many years has sought such an outlet for its

>> coal and coke trade.—Portsmouth Times.

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>> Gordon Hamilton

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