Pete,
There are more than two of you who remember ICC and it's regulations
including its speed or lack thereof. I remember it well from a
locomotive manufacturing standpoint. It used to really frustrate me
that we, as a manufacturer of RR products, couldn't get ICC approval
for changes in safety items on new equipment because "we weren't a
RR!". The best response we could get, when they finally got around to
it, was "It appears to be in compliance". The final approval did not
come until the first ICC inspector looked at the equipment. If he
rejected it, it might and sometimes did mean a complete redesign and,
of course, a hurried field modification. They never did anything in a
hurry, but we and the RRs were expected to when not in compliance. The
world is better off with ICC gone.
Bill Barber
On Wednesday, July 30, 2003, at 12:51 PM, BRHSlist@yahoogroups.com
wrote:
> Date: Wed, 30 Jul 2003 10:37:12 EDT
> From: PSHedgpeth@aol.com
> Subject: Reagan and the ICC
>
> Only John Mitchell and I are old enough to remember the days before
> deregulation when the ICC ruled supreme in all matters railroad....
>
> I can remember my dad saying regarding the ICC reports that he had to
> complete for the RPL&N that "we have to just as much paperwork as
> though we had 6000
> miles of track rather than 6"....
>
> Recently perusing THE REAGAN WIT, I came across this little
> gem....interestingly enough it was under the "Reagan on welfare"
> category......here's what he
> said regarding the ICC.
>
> "If the Interstate Commerce Commission had been in business during the
> pioneer days, the forty-niners woud still be trying to find out what
> the rules are
> for crossing the Mississippi River. October 15, 1974
>
> If you were'nt in the railroad game during the "regulated" days, you
> won't
> appreciate the significance of his comment, but hopefully there are
> enough of
> us out there that it's worth sharing.
>
> Pete
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