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Re: it's more like he's covering up for his own stupidity
Author: J Mann
Date: 08-23-2019 - 08:54

les Wrote:
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> Also, Wisconsin already had two Hiawatha trains
> sets on order but he rejected them so he could?
> God only knows why. Maybe because he likes to
> collect Talgo train sets and watch them rust?
>
> "Because the new Hiawatha trains were already
> built under a state contract (they had nothing to
> do with the Milwaukee-Madison route), the state is
> on the hook for around $50 million it has already
> paid for sleek new trains Walker stubbornly
> refuses to take delivery on, and for a related
> maintenance facility."

Would these Talgo's be the same ones that have been deemed unsafe to use by the US Department of Transportation? The Washington DOT is scrambling to find replacements for the ones used on the Cascades train. See this thread:
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