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Joe Biden Got To Check Out Amtrak's New Engine Today, So It Was Basically The Best Day Ever[/font size=4]
You don't need to know much about Vice President Joe Biden to know about his love affair with Amtrak. As a longtime senator from Delaware, Biden would commute between Wilmington, Del., and Washington. By his estimation, that's 8,000 trips. Biden is basically Amtrak's no. 1 fan.
So you could only imagine how overjoyed Biden was when he got to unveil Amtrak's brand new locomotive, the Amtrak Cities Sprinter, at an event Thursday in Philadelphia.
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catnhatnh
(8,976 posts)but even nicer would have been buying american made rather than german equipment...
Mopar151
(10,006 posts)Blazingly incompetent management, treated employees like dirt - I had friends working there.
paleotn
(18,012 posts)...GE or CAT couldn't produce the same locomotives? At least Siemens will be manufacturing them in the US.
progressoid
(50,013 posts)NightWatcher
(39,343 posts)Doc_Technical
(3,528 posts)Reminds me of the elevator operator (showing my age again)
who got fired for forgetting the route.
bvar22
(39,909 posts)It is not often I can find praise for our Party Leadership,
but this one is easy!
Joe Biden is one of the very few that is actually doing something to preserve our environment.
Kudos to the VP, for showing us the way!
[font size=3]"A developed country is not a place where the Poor have cars,
It is where the RICH ride Public Transportation."[/font]
--mayor of Bogota
Demoiselle
(6,787 posts)And very very true!
And I have to admit I have always loved Joe Biden. Call me foolish, but there it is.