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Posted 18 July 2017 - 12:42 PM

Urban Milwaukee, 7/17/17:
 

The Return of Talgo

Returns to central city plant here, will service and repairs trains for U.S. customers.

 

 

Milwaukee officials and corporate executives celebrated what they see as a win-win deal Friday at a newly-reopened manufacturing facility in north-central Milwaukee.

 

Many will remember when the last train from Talgo, the international train manufacturer based in Spain, left town as the company closed its shop in central city Milwaukee. Well, the company has now returned to its old facility at 3533 N. 27th St, in the Century City Business Park, formerly the site of A.O Smith, and last week held a grand reopening of sorts, with city officials there to celebrate.

 

While Talgo specializes in manufacturing high-speed and transit trains around the world, the plant will handle the repair and maintenance of trains, at least for now. The facility will also has the capacity to manufacture trains, and will be the first production facility for Talgo in the US. They also have a maintenance facility in Seattle, Washington.

 

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For the next 56 months  Tango employees here will work to fulfill the Los Angeles contract, which is worth $72.9 million. Perez said the company estimates that the yearly market for the kind of work they are doing at the Milwaukee plant is more than $180 million.

 

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Posted 18 July 2017 - 07:28 PM

Classic Trains "Mileposts" blog 7/18/17:
 

Beertown made railroad passenger cars, too

 

 

Last week I had the chance to witness something that doesn’t happen much in Milwaukee anymore: a railroad industry press conference.

 

Sixty years ago, that wouldn’t have been big news. In mid-century, the brewing capital was home to one of the largest railroad complexes in the U.S., the Milwaukee Road’s West Milwaukee shops. The city also was the backdrop for one of the fiercest passenger-train rivalries in history, that of the Milwaukee’s Hiawathas and the Chicago & North Western’s 400s. Reporters were always gathering at the tracks somewhere around town.

 

Those thunderous days were a distant murmur last Friday as I stood on a vast factory floor on the city’s north side to watch local officials welcome back the Spanish train manufacturer Talgo.

 

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