Maintenance can only be avoided for so long before the system collapse. It will cost much more in the future to bring everything back to standard than it would to maintain the equipment and track now. The reality is we have very short sided leadership and no vision for the future of the company.
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Absolutely! If so little is invested in maintenance, I'm afraid the system will collapse very soon. The only question is how much time is left until that, that is, how long this situation can last.
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Run it till it won’t. Park in siding. Buy or lease another. Wash, rinse, repeat. At least we got rid of the employees, unions, the FRA, and the liabilities. Highball!
The railroads do whatever they want, usually until the feds step in. ALWAYS HAVE ALWAYS WILL!
We are trying 19 trains down a day on
LA subs and on the Mojave subs.
Not a way to gain customers that now Fritz's wants.
Re: author of this post.
Did you send him an email and ask permission?
I apologize to the author of the post, I hope he doesn’t mind me copying the part of his post that I completely agree with.