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[QUOTE]Originally posted by Gilbert B Norman: [QB] At this time, with no challenges having been made, I declare the contest is closed and David Presley is the winner. The prizes I am awarding are Xeroxed (whoops Konica/Minolta) copies of two editorials that DPM wrote during 1st Quarter 1968. In one such titled "Excuse the First Person", DPM acknowledged he was breaking all the rules of journalism, starting with editorializing using the pronoun I, but he was watching what he loved and championed through the 25 years he had been "at the throttle" die a visible death. This not only included rail travel on trains that were the flagship, the public image, of long standing transportation companies, it also included point to point ocean transportation as it was during this era that the RMS "Queen Mary" was withdrawn. The other editorial is titled "Santa Fe Calls it Quits" and was DPM's reaction to the Santa Fe, a road that was determined not to downgrade their product even when others such as UP, GN, and NP had clearly downgraded theirs, to cutting their service to a nucleus "one a day" model. Even if I have not laid eyes on either piece in over forty years, they are vividly etched in my memory. The pieces are not DPM the pragmatist, as was the case with "Who Shot the Passenger Train" who was formulating both the role of the future intercity train but also how that product would be delivered to the public (a separate passenger train company), this was the romantic DPM, who wished to share with his readers that something he valued, as likely they did as well, was 'all over". They'll be in the mail by sundown, Mr. Presley. [/QB][/QUOTE]
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