Here in Washington the State government has vast plans to work toward passenger rail service that might some day attain a top speed of 79 m.p.h. (the Federal speed limit for trains in our State). Now we learn that the State of California plans some real high-speed rail -- probably to be built by the Chinese. But several other countries are also interested in selling equipment for real high- speed rail to California. It's instructive to consider that high-speed rail cannot be built in the U.S., but there are experienced firms in the following countries eager to compete with the Chinese for the California project: Japan, Germany, South Korea, Spain, France, and Italy. Whatever happened to good old American know-how?
Read more in this article from the New York Times:
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http://www.nytimes.com/2010/04/08/business/global/08rail.html?hp=&pagewanted=print
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