From URPA:
Full text of URPA's This Week at Amtrak here.Today, April 27, 2010, a new, privately funded and privately operated intercity passenger train is being announced, slated to begin operations during the Christmas season of 2011.
Posted 28 April 2010 - 12:46 AM
Full text of URPA's This Week at Amtrak here.Today, April 27, 2010, a new, privately funded and privately operated intercity passenger train is being announced, slated to begin operations during the Christmas season of 2011.
Kevin Korell
OTOL Board Leader
Lakewood, NJ
Posted 28 April 2010 - 07:03 AM
Posted 28 April 2010 - 11:01 AM
Posted 28 April 2010 - 11:32 AM
Posted 28 April 2010 - 01:56 PM
Again, with Z-Train the "two companies" are now three. Article is here.
It’s not as fast, but this train could hit the rails sooner
As two companies compete to be the first to provide high-speed rail service between Las Vegas and Southern California in the not too distant future, a third is saying it will have a train click-clacking along next year. Las Vegas Railway Express will provide conventional passenger rail service to and from Los Angeles on existing tracks, its executives say.
Kevin Korell
OTOL Board Leader
Lakewood, NJ
Posted 28 April 2010 - 02:01 PM
Read more here.
X-Train a smart short-term solution
The Wednesday article in the Las Vegas Sun by Rick Velotta about the Las Vegas Railway Express, “It’s not as fast, but this train could hit the rails sooner,” was a surprise.
Kevin Korell
OTOL Board Leader
Lakewood, NJ
Posted 28 April 2010 - 03:27 PM
They'll be lucky if at least one survives the ravages of reality.Woudln't it be nice to have a RailFest in Las Vegas, and have to choose between three companies for the two directions of travel?
Posted 29 April 2010 - 07:47 AM
Edited by The Dutchman, 29 April 2010 - 07:47 AM.
Posted 29 April 2010 - 11:22 AM
Kevin Korell
OTOL Board Leader
Lakewood, NJ
Posted 30 April 2010 - 01:30 AM
There has been serious questions raised about where the Las Vegas casino business model goes from here. Obviously they made a huge and expensive mistake with going after families, followed by the devastating Great Recession, and now as the recession eases they find consumers pockets far less easy to pick. I think that they don't have any choice but to band together and do something big, like rail. They have recently opened a lot of space that needs customers to utilize. The operators need to pull every trick they can think of to get bodies into town, and once they are do their best to part them with their money. This is what the cruise lines are doing, getting people on with very low fares, and then adding extra charges for nearly everything. Come to think of it, so are the airlines.Kind of reminiscent of what is happening in Atlantic City with ACES --- 3 casinos subsidizing rail service to bring in their high end gamblers from a particular market.
Edited by ICGsteve, 30 April 2010 - 01:33 AM.
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