[PRCo] Re: What a Minute...

[Boris Cefer]

But there were transit companies in the US that did better.

B

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Fred Schneider" <fwschneider at comcast.net>
To: <pittsburgh-railways at dementia.org>
Sent: Monday, June 12, 2006 8:53 PM
Subject: [PRCo] Re: What a Minute...


> We simply need to understand that this was a private company,  
> separated by 1950 from the Philadelphia Company, totally dependent on  
> fares for revenue.   Furthermore they were operating in a political  
> climate that could, in its best sense, be described as adversarial.    
> If PRC did anything to make money, such as investing money in other  
> areas (gasoline stations on its property, for example), the city came  
> down on them like a ton of bricks because that might increase the  
> condemnation costs to the city.    There was nada that PRC could do  
> that was correct in the city's eyes.   And the Pittsburgh Post  
> Gazette didn't make life easy either; they habitually showed Charles  
> Palmer frowning.
> 
> I'm afraid, Boris, that you you are attempting to compare what you  
> saw in your youth in Europe with Pittsburgh.   What was run as a  
> communist or socialist venture for the good of the party and the  
> needs of the public.   The other was operated to squeeze the last  
> ounces of money out of a system on behalf of the investors and  
> subject to state regulators.  The goals and operations are totally  
> different and cannot be compared.
> 
> Under those conditions, it was a miracle that the cars ran at all.
> 
> On Jun 12, 2006, at 12:37 PM, Boris Cefer wrote:
> 
> > They also did not waste money on wiring cosmetic. They simply laid  
> > a fluff
> > of wires.
> >
> > B
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Fred Schneider" <fwschneider at comcast.net>
> > To: <pittsburgh-railways at dementia.org>
> > Sent: Sunday, June 11, 2006 11:19 PM
> > Subject: [PRCo] Re: What a Minute...
> >
> >
> >> They also repaired the cars; they simply did not waste money on body
> >> cosmetics.   In general, PRC cars ran pretty well and suffered few in
> >> service breakdowns.
> >>
> >> On Jun 11, 2006, at 2:41 PM, Boris Cefer wrote:
> >>
> >>> They did, but did not repair the cars!
> >>>
> >>> Do you have more?
> >>>
> >>> B
> >>>
> >>> ----- Original Message -----
> >>> From: "Ken & Tracie" <ktjosephson at earthlink.net>
> >>> To: <pittsburgh-railways at dementia.org>
> >>> Sent: Sunday, June 11, 2006 8:35 PM
> >>> Subject: [PRCo] What a Minute...
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>> ...I thought somebody said they never repaired the tracks. ;-)
> >>>> K.
> >
> >
> 
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