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Herman Pevler was the president of Wabash Railroad before he becoming President of N&W.  Pevler oversaw mergers begun under Saunders which brought into the N&W fold the Nickel Plate Road, the Wabash Railroad and portions of the Pennsylvania Railroad. The mergers were completed in 1964. 

 

Coming from the Wabash, he was the first N&W president in the 20th century to have not come up through the lower ranks of the N&W, and his leadership was met with some resistance by some N&W staff. Among his legacies was a change in N&W livery on locomotives to a blue very similar to that employed by the Wabash, which became known within the company as "Pevler blue."

 

Pevler Blue was not well received and it did fade like crazy.

 

Gilly

 

 

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The NYC Century Green (not properly "jade") locos were done at a time when the Central

was experimenting with new colors for esthetic and durability reasons. They painted

some gray - the keeper - and some black, plus the green ones. All were in the Cigar Band lettering, as this was the time that the road was moving away from the expensive-to-paint Lightning Stripes.

 

There were 3 green NYC E's - the 2 E-8A's and one matching E-7B (a Williams E-7B

and green paint project if I ever heard of one).

 

There was nothing special about the green units; NYC pulled the same things with them

as it did with all the other E-8's (and so forth). They were passenger locos, so they pulled passenger trains, primarily.

 

I love my K-line greens, and I don't use DCS much, so mine will not be going up for sale.

 

The Century Green color survived as a Penn Central (and Conrail) rolling stock color. 

 

I got beat up a little on the MTH Catalog thread when the question came up about N&W "owning" E-8's. In my mind, I was thinking "bought" and wasn't considering mergers in 1964. I was 7 at the time and admit I was wrong to a point. 

 

Wabash did own 14 E8A's numbered 1000, 1003 - 1015.  N&W kept 5 (1000, 1006, 1008, 1012, 1015) and renumbered them 3800, 3806, 3808, 3812, & 3815. There were no "B's".

 

The ABA set does look nice, but it would have been more accurate if MTH had just offered this as a A-A set. Better yet; a single A with a matching set of passenger cars and I probably would be pre-ordering right now.

 

Gilly

 

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The ABA set does look nice, but it would have been more accurate if MTH had just offered this as a A-A set. Better yet; a single A

 

Amen brother Gilly

 

I typed Pevlar vice Pevler, knowing it's plastered all over the internet both ways.

 

I wonder how many of us only think of "bought new" (without really thinking of it) when looking at a new purchase?  Seaboard owned a number of steam engines that were originally owned by other RRs (GM, WM and CNW come to mind), that were acquired thru direct sales or mergers.  I bet some engines that have been offered for the original RR are available and could be easily modified/repainted to represent the RR of our choice.

Originally Posted by jaygee:

Anyone remember the MTH re-badge N&W / ACL E8s in Poke Juice purple and N&W lettering?   .... they never did the RF&P version, which would have been just as nifty...maybe more so !

Nope, I didn't know that. I would be up for one of each provided they were offered as a single "A" unit.

 

Gilly

 

FWIW, I sent a suggestion to MTH to offer an uncatalogued set with a single N&W E8-A with the blue passenger cars. I'll let everyone know if I get an answer. 

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