Las Vegas Railway Express to Expand Service Nationwide

[vsmith]

You guys may think I'm joking but the Big Bus technology is already here:

...and be a hellova lot easier to get this venture going than doing it by rail, besides anyone actually think UP will give up any track usage rights on that corridor? yeah right, any deal would likely be so expensive as to kill it outright.

Anyone got a spare 2 million $?, that would get this well underway, I would start up this Big (party) Bus idea myself if I wasn't rich as dirt 

[Deggesty]

PNWRMNM

Agree $2 mil will go for planning and overhead. It is a high risk speculation, but not a scam.

That the publicity mentions existing passenger service to Las Vegas causes me to wonder how much the proponents know of the current state of passenger service to Las Vegas, and if they are really serious about starting new passenger service, complete with poorly designed equipment. In the floor diagrams I did not see where the stair between the lower and upper levels is.

[schlimm]

IMO, that $2 mil. will largely go into the pockets of the folks who organized this and their friends.  Borderline legal, just like the building of the original UP, except in the latter case, they actually laid track on a so-so RoW.

[PNWRMNM]

Agree $2 mil will go for planning and overhead. It is a high risk speculation, but not a scam.

[schlimm]

And the $2 mil.  will all go for "planning."   scam.

[CMStPnP]

45 million shares of stock sold and only approx 2 million dollars raised.    Penny stock and it looks like a thinly capitalized company unless they have a rich investor tucked away somewhere.

[Deggesty]

vsmith

Since Amtrak ceased the Desert Wind service years ago, I'm curious as to just what are they going to use to pull this with, hooked up to the back of the usual UP container trains that now ply that route???

Perhaps they are planning service to Las Vegas, New Mexico? The Southwest Chief stops there.

I like the comment about the need for a hospital room.

Every seat a window seat? The passengers in the aisle seats could develop cricks in their necks, looking out the overhead windows.

[ontheBNSF]

vsmith

Personally I'd give them a better success at a "party train" to Vegas if they kept it on the highway and revived an old idea from the '70s;

This would be easier to do than dealing with Congress for rail funding

The Xpresswest was what asked for government monies the X train won't be using such government monies.

[vsmith]

Personally I'd give them a better success at a "party train" to Vegas if they kept it on the highway and revived an old idea from the '70s;

This would be easier to do than dealing with Congress for rail funding

[Dakguy201]

I'm amused at their renditions of the car layout.  Of particular interest is the no hand rail spiral staircase between the dome and the lounge below.  I think they forgot to set space aside on the lower level for the hospital room that will be needed!

[tomikawaTT]

It's now official that the Desert Wind project (Las Vegas to a park-and-ride above Cajon Pass) WON'T be getting federal funding - which has Harry Ried in a snit.  As for Train X - wazzat??  Here in Sin City nobody even claims to have heard of it.

Anyone who wants to ride a train to or through Las Vegas had better sign on with UP - as crew.  Either that or dress up your rubber wheeler as a locomotive.  (Color and hood design of my aged Toyota pickup reminded me of a GG1.  I kept threatening to put PRR keystone decals on it, but never did.)

Chuck (Clark County, NV, resident)

[chutton01]

I'm sorry, but those "X-train" passenger cars are not AntonioFP45's best work. He's certainly done better airbrush finishes on his models, probably the AlClad he used was too old and runny...

[jrbernier]

  Do they even have any of this equipment built?  Or are they rehabbing old heritage cars?  

Jim

[vsmith]

Since Amtrak ceased the Desert Wind service years ago, I'm curious as to just what are they going to use to pull this with, hooked up to the back of the usual UP container trains that now ply that route???

[ontheBNSF]

http://www.marketwire.com/press-release/Las-Vegas-Railway-Express-Inc-OTCQB-XTRN-The-X-Train-Announces-Its-VEGAS-CLASS-OTCQB-XTRN-1813330.htm

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A2ScB2OpRhA

I might use the train to travel to vegas for CES.