This is part of the results of Walker’s ideological idiocy when he turned down the 800 million for light rail. He left these trains to rot, not paying the trainmaker and reneging on a contract. Which the train maker Talgo is suing for an expected to be judgement of over 100 million.

Suit filed over $40 million unused train cars

The Milwaukee to Chicago Amtrak route is bursting with passengers. So the state hired Talgo to build two new sets of train cars. Now one year later, court battles and endless politics have the trains sitting in mothballs.

Taxpayers spent more than $40 million to build the new train cars.

TODAYS’ TMJ4 has learned the feud is about to blow up into a bigger lawsuit as Talgo goes after the state for more money - claiming the state has not lived up to its end of the deal.

The state can disagree all it wants. The courts are still going to enforce contract law. Walker’s reckless breaking of the contract put all people doing business with the state on notice: contracts are not respected by this self described conservative administration and further damages Wisconsin’s ability to attract jobs.