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2. Don't blame US companies for this one

Reply to notadmblnd (Original post)

Thu Mar 10, 2016, 05:07 PM

Mar 2016

People quit riding trains and streetcars. The US companies that made passenger equipment either closed up shop or turned to other business to remain viable. There is no domestic passenger rail equipment production in the US and hasn't been for forty years. Government entities seeking rail passenger equipment have to go outside the country to buy it. Only government entities are buying passenger rail equipment these days (except maybe All Aboard Florida).

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Chicago Hands China $1.3 Billion Order for New Urban Train Cars [View all] notadmblnd Mar 2016 OP

This is a disgrace...that money and many jobs could be kept here in the U.S. Human101948 Mar 2016 #1

Don't blame US companies for this one 1939 Mar 2016 #2

Really? Throd Mar 2016 #3

You do understand that Siemens is a German firm, right? n/t A HERETIC I AM Mar 2016 #5

Are they hiring Germans or Sacramentans? Throd Mar 2016 #6

I made the comment because of the context of the previous post. A HERETIC I AM Mar 2016 #7

I'm in Sacramento. We can use the work. Throd Mar 2016 #8

I'm sure you do and it's great that the plant is operating. A HERETIC I AM Mar 2016 #9

I posted this without comment notadmblnd Mar 2016 #4

And L.A. KamaAina Mar 2016 #10

Not underhandedly 1939 Mar 2016 #11

Between 1938 and 1950, National City Lines and its subsidiaries, notadmblnd Mar 2016 #12

National City Lines was buying up privately owned transit lines 1939 Mar 2016 #13

I seem to remember a street car on Jefferson in the early to mid 70's notadmblnd Mar 2016 #14

It actually began operation in 1976 1939 Mar 2016 #15

According to GM's own files, notadmblnd Mar 2016 #16