Walker’s a promoter. Evers isn’t. Corning wouldn’t build a glass plant needed to produce the large sized screens. The only one in existence is in Asia. It’s too bad if this ends up going south as America has little of the know how to make this kind of stuff. Could it be a question of not recognizing the Asian way of doing things?
Would rather have rail focus be on bringing Chi-Milw to higher standard of service. Extension to Waukesha County including seasonal stop at Miller Park/Fairgrounds. Clocker service.
I would not care if it headed South, that specific area of Wisconsin is developing just fine without FOXCONN. Didn’t need tax incentives to lure development there, only needed state attention to fix up the infrastructure more.
An intercity trainset engineered and built for speed, repurposed as a commuter train and what I find humorous about that is the Talgo guy in Milwaukee thinks this is just great…lol.
No the Train of Tomorrow was standard with dome cars. The R.I. had the Aerotrain: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oItV2ymPPGM and it used GMC bus body cars with single axles between them. Air Bag suspension but it couldn’t handle the R.I.'s jointed rail. Talgo’s suspension is much superior to it.
Which had Pullman Standard dome cars. It toured the country and I believe U.P. bought it and used it between Portland and Seattle. Many of the ideas it had were incorporated in the new streamliners that followed it.
And I have now figured out how to light up my links.
Aerotrain was not single axles between the bus bodies: each ‘bus’ had two axles. Apparently GM worked out how to make the suspension work on jointed rail at the very end, with the last car they made, but by then any particular interest in it was gone.
The original TALGO was arranged with independent wherls on stub axles at the rear, with the nose resting on a kind of hitch at the back if the proceeding car. Not only was there no axle between cars to steer… there was no axle at all (this was an ’ ‘advantage’ as the aisle could be near ground level between the stubs)
The famous Cripe renaissance of the linked central axle was of course the Sikorsky/UA entry in Johnson’s high-speed mass-transit initiative: the Turbotrain. This actually hung the cars off a portal frame between the car ends for pendulum tilt.