{"id":1224419,"date":"2022-01-19T12:38:32","date_gmt":"2022-01-19T17:38:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1224419"},"modified":"2022-01-19T12:38:38","modified_gmt":"2022-01-19T17:38:38","slug":"trains-built-for-doomed-wisconsin-rail-project-sold-to-nigeria","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/trains-built-for-doomed-wisconsin-rail-project-sold-to-nigeria\/","title":{"rendered":"Trains Built for Doomed Wisconsin Rail Project Sold to Nigeria"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">20<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Ftrains-built-for-doomed-wisconsin-rail-project-sold-to-nigeria%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1224419&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div>\n\t\t\t<span class=\"article-category\"><a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/latest-news\/\">Latest News<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"article-excerpt\">Obama admin granted Wisconsin $810 million for rail line<\/p>\n<figure class=\"post-thumbnail-container relative lg:mr-24 w-full my-4 mb-8\">\n\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"736\" height=\"490\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/GettyImages-1094946998-736x490-1.jpg\" class=\"w-full lazyload blur-up wp-post-image\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"denied:data:image\/gif;base64, R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/GettyImages-1094946998-736x490.jpg 736w, https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/GettyImages-1094946998-1024x681.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/GettyImages-1094946998-768x511.jpg 768w, https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/GettyImages-1094946998-1536x1022.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/GettyImages-1094946998-2048x1363.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/GettyImages-1094946998-1400x932.jpg 1400w\" data-sizes=\"auto\" \/><figcaption class=\"absolute text-white p-4 w-full text-right text-xs bottom-0 bg-black opacity-75\">\n\t\t\t\tWorkers adjusts the new standard gauge railway line under construction from Iju in Lagos to Abeokuta, Ogun State in southwest Nigeria, on Feb. 7, 2019. \/ Getty Images\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>\t\t\t<span class=\"text-gray text-xs md:text-lg\"><a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/author\/philip-caldwell\/\" title=\"Posts by Philip Caldwell\" class=\"author url fn text-red-700\" rel=\"author\">Philip Caldwell<\/a> \u2022 January 19, 2022 12:30 pm<\/span><\/p><\/div>\n<div>\n<p>Two trains that Wisconsin purchased for a failed high-speed rail project were sold to Nigeria on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>The governor of the West African country&#8217;s Lagos State visited Milwaukee this week to buy the trains, which had sat unused since 2012. Nigeria plans to use the trains for a metro system under construction.<\/p>\n<p>Wisconsin originally purchased the trains in 2009 from Spanish manufacturer Talgo as part of a plan to construct a high-speed rail line connecting Milwaukee and Madison. Months later, the Obama administration granted Wisconsin $810 million to pay for the rail line.<\/p>\n<p>But the project soon fell apart, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wpr.org\/derailed\/wisconsins-high-speed-rail-saga-was-decades-making\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">according to<\/a> Wisconsin Public Radio, after the state elected Republican governor Scott Walker, who campaigned on scrapping the rail line.<\/p>\n<p>Wisconsin gave up on the project, but Talgo <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wpr.org\/node\/1901676\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">sued<\/a> the state in 2012 for breach of contract. In a settlement, Wisconsin agreed to pay Talgo $50 million in damages, with the Spanish company maintaining ownership of the trains at its Milwaukee facilities.<\/p>\n<p>Milwaukee&#8217;s Democratic acting mayor Cavalier Johnson attended an event marking Talgo&#8217;s sale of the trains to Nigeria. He expressed disappointment that the trains would be leaving Wisconsin.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s a little bittersweet,&#8221; Johnson told Wisconsin Public Radio. &#8220;I&#8217;m sending my congratulations to the governor in Lagos State in Nigeria, but also a little disappointed that we missed out on the opportunity to have those trainsets operating here in Milwaukee and in Wisconsin.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Latest News Obama admin granted Wisconsin $810 million for rail line  Workers adjusts the new standard gauge railway line under construction from Iju in Lagos to &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1224419","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1224419","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1224419"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1224419\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1224419"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1224419"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1224419"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}