And this is where the plan fails. I've driven from LV to Victorville. It's easy, mindless driving and I have my car at both ends. A train does nothing. The only exception may be peak holiday weekends like New Years or Presidents. Not enough to sustain the train, not matter the subsidy.
It will end up like much of the TGV in France, pretty but useless.
The drive from Las Vegas to CA is definitely easy and mindless. While I’d be happy to have the lost CA drivers off the roads here, seriously, who is going to take the train when it’s not that long a drive? Well, there is one demographic I can think of which we can do without. It’s just for money to put in union worker’s pockets.
It will end up like the Railrunner in New Mexico, a big money waster