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WASHINGTON — Administration officials on Friday portrayed President Barack Obama’s $8 billion high-speed-train program as a jobs generator.
Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood said at a rail- manufacturing conference that more than 30 foreign and domestic companies have promised to establish or expand U.S. operations if they are chosen to build high-speed lines.
Mark Yachmetz, a Federal Railroad Administration official, told the conference: “We are trying to accomplish a rebirth of rail manufacturing.”
