[PRCo] Re: Maintenance standard

[John Swindler]

Concerning fixing something and then scrapping it, that requires free money. 
  It is alleged that MBTA spent over $300,000 rebuilding some picture window 
PCC cars in early 1980s and then decided to concentrate on Westinghouse 
war-time cars.  Allegedly some picture window cars went directly from 
Watertown to scrap.

And then there was SEPTA's GOH program for PCC cars that required a 12-year 
life.  Many of the last done cars were stored out of service while the clock 
ran on their required service life.

On other hand good way for museums to get low mileage cars

John




>From: "Boris Cefer" <westinghouse at iol.cz>
>Reply-To: pittsburgh-railways at dementia.org
>To: <pittsburgh-railways at dementia.org>
>Subject: [PRCo] Re: Maintenance standard
>Date: Wed, 14 Jun 2006 19:01:34 +0200
>
>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.
>