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Re: Nippon Sharyo pulling out of USA
Author: synonymouse
Date: 08-11-2018 - 11:59
In the larger sense this is not a new issue and is extremely difficult, with good arguments on both sides. That is: procure anywhere or protect US jobs.
The underlying cause was and is the postwar destruction of electric railways due to the emergence of an all-powerful highway lobby dedicated to a monopoly of the private automobile as the means of surface transport in the US.
With the only stable market left for electric railway equipment a few urban subway and commuter ops even BART had trouble finding experienced suppliers and so with the SF-Boston subway-surface light rail cars. San Diego was able to find its own money to buy Duwags straight from Germany.
The best solution is an on-going market for passenger railcars in the US and that means systems in all US cities, like the old days. And standardization - f**k gadgetbahns and bizarro gauges and 3rd rail which are highway lobby and eunuch architects' highjinx. Remember the PCC - a success which should have come on 20 years earlier.
Think of the billions and billions and billions the auto interests have had to tweek their crappy internal combustion.
The underlying cause was and is the postwar destruction of electric railways due to the emergence of an all-powerful highway lobby dedicated to a monopoly of the private automobile as the means of surface transport in the US.
With the only stable market left for electric railway equipment a few urban subway and commuter ops even BART had trouble finding experienced suppliers and so with the SF-Boston subway-surface light rail cars. San Diego was able to find its own money to buy Duwags straight from Germany.
The best solution is an on-going market for passenger railcars in the US and that means systems in all US cities, like the old days. And standardization - f**k gadgetbahns and bizarro gauges and 3rd rail which are highway lobby and eunuch architects' highjinx. Remember the PCC - a success which should have come on 20 years earlier.
Think of the billions and billions and billions the auto interests have had to tweek their crappy internal combustion.
