Written by Frank N. Wilner, Contributing Editor, Railway Age Magazine; January 9, 2018
Have others noticed that aside from those few souls conscripted to promote the interests of railroads on Capitol Hill, the term “Staggers Rail Act” has lost its intended meaning?
Among non-railroad opinion leaders and decision makers, the words “dotard” and “covfefe” are more recognizable than the almost four-decades-old 1980 law providing railroads with partial economic deregulation and named in honor of a now long-deceased 16-term Democratic congressman from West Virginia—Harley O. Staggers Sr.—whose legislative support was essential for the law’s congressional passage.
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