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A quite pleasant piece of reporting from Julie Watts at CBS News adds a new wrinkle to a thing The Federalist has been saying for a while: California’s high-speed rail project is a political symbol plus a union giveaway, and no operational train system is coming anytime in the foreseeable future.

In February, @CAgovernor Gavin Newsom described this busy new railhead and marshaling yard near Wasco as a major sign of progress in the state's high-speed rail project. Today: pic.twitter.com/zhsdk5TSs7— Chris Bray (@a_chrisbray) May 21, 2026

In February, @CAgovernor Gavin Newsom described this busy new railhead and marshaling yard near Wasco as a major sign of progress in the state's high-speed rail project. Today: pic.twitter.com/zhsdk5TSs7

Completing a contract for actual trains, Watts writes, was a “key milestone” for a project that was approved in 2008 and began active construction in 2015. The failure to complete that step was an important signal, because federal grant requirements “required the rail authority to execute a trainset contract by........

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