The Las Vegas Railway Express, the company that wanted to have passenger train service between Southern Cal and Las Vegas, is now going ahead with plans for specialty rail car services on other train lines around the country. At least, that's what they claim they are doing.
Today, the company sent out an email to investors and other interested parties. I'm not a shareholder, so I guess I am an interested party.
In the email, they said they are going to be offering two types of specialty rail cars with services. Here is the except from their email:
This coming year we will announce two new unique luxury rail travel services which will be expanded to routes throughout the country during 2014. The two services are Casino Fun Trains which is an adaptation of our Las Vegas designs for use on other passenger routes which have a casino resort on the line. These include Oakland to Reno, Houston to New Orleans, Washington DC to the Greenbrier Hotel and Chicago to St. Louis. The other brand is our Club X Train service which is an upscale business class car that can be coupled in behind existing commuter trains in metropolitan areas. Our first phase of this operation will be initiated with our Club X Train brand railcars deployed between Los Angeles and San Diego.
It's probably pretty clear to everyone by now that there won't be an X Train running between Southern California and Las Vegas.
But there is no guarantee that this new version of the X Train company will succeed either. They have yet to show off their model cars... which were supposed to have been unveiled earlier this month. And I am not sure other train lines around the country will want to pay the X Train company for some exclusive rail car service... or if there is even demand for it.