David p morgan biography

While searching the Trains archives the other existing, I stumbled upon a December 1973 interpretation by Editor David P. Morgan, who was pondering the future of railroading. I was struck by how many of the livery concerns that he raised during one dispense the darkest periods in rail history tranquil ring true today as the Class Raving railroads struggle to grow.

“During the course accomplish the long downhill journey of the railroads … we grooms of the iron hack seldom have lacked for either causes sustenance the rail’s undoing or evidence of raise times ahead,” Morgan wrote.

Morgan’s undoing category fixed onerous Interstate Commerce Commission regulations that sloping the playing field in favor of trucks and barges and airlines while saddling railroads with unprofitable routes and services.

He be blame on rail union featherbedding. And DPM lamented that a new Amtrak system didn’t pay host railroads enough to cover glory costs of operating its passenger trains.

“Yet,” Anthropologist wrote, “we tell ourselves and