Follow the Money: High Speed Rail—> GE Engines. Another liberal push of taxpayer dollars to their cronies. God save us from this our Moron in Chief.
Yep.
"Below is a list of rail manufacturers and suppliers that have committed to establish or expand their base of operations in the United States and American manufacturing jobs if they are chosen by states or groups of states to build America’s next generation high-speed rail lines or improve intercity passenger rail service:
GE Transportation
Wabtec
Columbus Steel Castings
Bombardier
ALSTOM
TALGO
Kawasaki Rail Car
Siemens
Hyundai Rotem USA
Motive Power
National Railway Equipment Company
CAF USA
US Railcar
Nippon Sharyo
Electro-Motive Diesel
Ansaldo STS
Lockheed Martin
Safetran Systems Corporation>br> Tangent Rail
Amsted Rail
AnsaldoBreda
American Railcar Industries
CXT Tie
Railroad Controls
A&K Railroad Materials
Cleveland Track Material, Inc
New York Air Brake
Plasser American
Simmons Machine Tool
Ellcon-National
Harsco Rail
ORX Railway "
GE will likely be the sole vendor for all the electrical components, assuming this thing ever gets built. If it's anything like TVA and the nuke plants they built, three or four times as much material will be purchased than is needed. The excess, unused materials will be either stolen and sold for scrap or sold later for pennies on the dollar at auction.