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It's so important that equipment, locomotives
anything that's going to be put in service in our nation's rail system
undergo testing to make sure that those minimum levels of safety are going to be achieved
or exceeded
well before they're in operation.
And so the Transportation Technology Center is one of those places where we can have those
tests done
and ensure through the rigorous testing that safety is going to be achieve when the equipment
goes into service.
Well the economic investment in rail is very, very powerful.
Not only is rail and transportation the bloodline for our nation's economy.
But through our Buy America program we're actually able to see significant downstream
economic benefit generated
through hundreds of small businesses from across the nation.
49 of our 50 states have rail suppliers in them.
And so these are the suppliers that end up benefitting with those good manufacturing
jobs,
in putting together an order like this.
What a beauty!
[Clapping and cheering]