Re: Narrow gauge passenger car for sale

Quote
unofficial C&T Commission minutes 27-Jul-2019 (per S. Seiber)
11a. Passenger Car Lease-Sale

At the last commission meeting, it was approved to lease a surplus car. A motion was presented to alter that to be a lease/sale of the car. The car would go to the highest bidder, to exceed $40,000. Mr. Bush mentioned during the discussion part of the motion that the flat roof cars are to be replaced by new cars. At least one flat roof car would be retained as RR history. The plan is to advertise the availability of the car. Commissioner Graybill was asked to recuse himself from the voting, as his Georgetown Loop Railroad is interested in the car. Commissioner Love asked the attendees if they had any comment. Rich Casford went first. He used to run the RR under the prior contractor model. Rich wanted the commission to be cautious about releasing surplus rolling stock. There could be a need to quickly roll in a car to replace a damaged car. It happened to him. He sees the importance to replacing the flat roof cars, but a backup is important. Commissioner Graybill pointed out that the sale of the old cars will finance the building of the new ones. Stathi pointed out that the downside of tearing down a flat roof car, to build back up to new standards puts that car out of service for some time, thus reducing capacity. The commissioners other than Mr. Graybill voted yes, thus approved. Seasonal leasing may continue, during the off season of the RR.

[train.sbseiber.com]