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when I ride light and heavy rail in California, the rail cars are made either in Japan or Germany.

Heh. When I ride light rail/subway in Germany, the rolling stock is often Canadian .

The fact is that what we're experiencing right now is a top-down disaster. -Paul Krugman

by dvx (dvx.clt ät gmail dotcom) on Wed Oct 24th, 2007 at 03:02:17 PM EST
Owned. But manufactured in factories they bought up in Europe (Talbot 1995, ADtranz = ABB Daimler Benz Transportation [ex ABB, AEG, Henschel] 2001, a lot more), along with the technology. In part the same is true for GE Energy's wind branch (ex Enron, ex Tacke), whose development centers on Germany and production on the EU.

*Lunatic*, n.
One whose delusions are out of fashion.
by DoDo on Wed Oct 24th, 2007 at 04:47:34 PM EST
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Meanwhile, there has been not insubstantial outsourcing to the new EU members (less complete construction, more parts), although development is still in the West.

*Lunatic*, n.
One whose delusions are out of fashion.
by DoDo on Wed Oct 24th, 2007 at 04:49:55 PM EST
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