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beaulieu: N&W bought five PRR class K3 Pacifics in 1930 to replace their class J Atlantics operating between Norfolk and Petersburg and Richmond (via ACL). The K3s had 80" drivers. This was a specialized engine for a specialized service, and since the K3s were available, why should N&W have designed and built an engine for that service? I'm certain they got 'em cheap . . . nanaimo73 - I'm not certain Saunders got a lot of credit for the way he ran N&W; he was a merger architect, and a good one, and he was there at the right time. He had a cadre of extremely capable transportation and operating and mechanical and engineering officers to run the railroad for him while he put together the N&W-Wab-NKP merger. Fans blame him for the quick N&W dieselization, but that was going to happen no matter who sat in the President's chair. The time had come, and nothing was going to stop it. He ran into problems when he went to PennCentral. He could not rely on the PC people to run the railroad for him, and they didn't - all the NYC people wanted to do was fight with the PRR people, and vice versa. Of course, by that time, I don't think anything could have saved PC. One problem was that they had to divest their N&W stock, the dividends from which had paid them over $400 million dollars since 1901. There was no way to replace that income. Herman Pevler was an empty suit who'd come from the PRR to the Wabash, and became president of the post-merger N&W by prior agreement. He benefited from the same group of folks that ran the railroad for Saunders. Pevler got to be at mandatory retirement age, and kept getting extensions from the Board of Directors, until ousted by a palace coup and replaced by John Fishwick. Old Timer
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