[PRCo] Re: Maintenance standard

[Boris Cefer]

But LATL did not buy the PCCs to scrap them.

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Fred Schneider" <fwschneider at comcast.net>
To: <pittsburgh-railways at dementia.org>
Sent: Tuesday, June 13, 2006 11:46 PM
Subject: [PRCo] Re: Maintenance standard


> 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.