Ridiculous headline. There is no risk of the inability to procure the rolling stock to run on the hsr infrastructure - the risk is not being politically capable of building the hsr infrastructure.
One truth regarding the big picture of American made rolling stock is just how despicable it is that we allowed our domestic passenger rolling stock industry to wither and die because we made a collective cultural decision 60 years ago to essentially abandon the entire concept of passenger trains. When you dwell on the rich history of American car builders that used to lead the world, and they are all conpletely gone. Pullman... Budd... ACF... StLC... Gone. All gone. Had we taken a different path those conpanies would likely be thriving and we'd be selling equipment to other countries instead of buying Chinese and Japanese transit cars and outfitting Amtrak with German trainsets. I understand the nuance of multinational manufacturers and globalism but the erasure of domestic know-how is a disgrace.
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