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Re: BART’s New Fleet: Made in the USA, but Maybe Not in California |
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Posted by Jackson Park B Train on Mon Feb 27 22:22:52 2012, in response to Re: BART’s New Fleet: Made in the USA, but Maybe Not in California, posted by blue8irt on Mon Feb 27 17:46:57 2012. we build freight cars. there is a company in Oregon building streetcars. Brookville rehabs PCCs.The issue of US owned companies building LR,subway, or EMUs mostly relates to a very unstable market. There are 2 active EMU projects at the moment--not enough to sustain a stand alone enterprise without extremely deep pockets and enough other market segments to sustain cash flow. Note that Budd was already German owned before it stopped building rail cars. From another POV, many US built railcars have not been very well built over the last 4 decades. Sainted Budd gave us the Seldom Powered Vehicle, Boeing gave us the terrible Standard Light Rail Vehicle, and I think we can politely say the last PS and SLC cars for the subway had "issues". |
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