[PRCo] Re: Maintenance standard

[Fred Schneider]

OK, Boris.   LATL did better.   From your point of view.   Now from a  
business point of view they were stupid.   One doesn't spend money  
maintaining a property that you are going to scrap.   That was  
taxpayers money.  It constitutes malfeasance in office.    And if it  
were a private corporation, it was the stockholders' money that was  
thrown down a rat hole and you don't spend the stockholders' money  
fixing something you plan to retire if you want to be relected to the  
board next year.

What makes sense is buying a piece of machinery and running it to  
make money until that piece of machinery is worn out and then  
scrapping it.   Fixing it and then scrapping it is not something a  
sane businessman does.

On Jun 13, 2006, at 2:34 PM, Boris Cefer wrote:

> Exactly the aspect I had on mind. Of course, there is relation to  
> financial
> situation, but there are also obligatory technical rules. Or not?  
> PCC car is
> a complicated electric device, not a horse-team.
> The attachment shows something dangerous, but not a wiring.
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> B
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> James B. Holland" <PRCoPCC at P-R-Co.com>
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> Sent: Monday, June 12, 2006 11:19 PM
> Subject: [PRCo] Re: W_a[i]t a Minute...
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>> It seems the  Did--Better  reference from Boris is in equipment and
>> infrastructure maintenance, not related to expansion //  
>> survivability.
>> ..
>> LATL  certainly qualifies in this category  --  excellent Track,
>> Overhead, Equipment maintenance right up to the end.
>> ..
>> San Francisco Muni   NEVER   had preventive maintenance until the  
>> advent
>> of the Boeing lrv in the 1980s  (The People's Railway, pg.204, 2nd
>> column.)       But Muni never contended with Winter Snows.        
>> Caught
>> up to them in the 1970s  --  PCCs in horrible condition eletro /
>> mechanically  --  best I would describe it is  Criminal__Neglect.
>> .
>> .
>> .
>> Jim
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