[PRCo] Re: Maintenance standard

[Fred Schneider]

You mean like FEMA money?

I think there was also a junk or retired Muni car that was painted  
for an UMTA official.   Holland could clarify perhaps.   I was shown  
a color slide of it by ... brain housing group not working right  
tonight ... the Muni mechanic whose sister was the TV star.   Help me  
someone.

On Jun 14, 2006, at 3:42 PM, John Swindler wrote:

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> 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.
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> 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
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>> 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
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>> 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.
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