Trocha also included a railroad line to move troops and supplies, the first government railroad line in Cuba.
The town of Mor�n began to grow in 1915 when the Trocha rail line was bought by Colonel Jose M. Tarafa as he began to assemble the Ferrocarriles del Norte railway line. Mor�n was chosen as the line's headquarters. The railway's maintenance shops and a large central station became the central feature of the town. Mor�n became the junction of a network of several branchlines and sugar lines which stimulated the expansions of sugar plantations and centralized sugar mills which previously were located mainly in the south and central part of Cuba.
In the 1960s a road was built through the marshland to the coast, and in the 1990s this was extended on a man-made causeway to Cayo Coco and Cayo Guillermo, where a number of hotels were built. Many of the hotel workers live in Mor�n and commute to work in specially provided buses
