Monday, December 04, 2006

Las Vegas Has No Train Station

This will be a short post.

For one thing, Blogger Beta isn't working properly and we cannot format the text. For another, we got back from Vegas on Thursday afternoon and haven't had a chance to write or do research.

The hotel, The Gold Coast, was about a block from the railroad. There were plenty of Union Pacific trains working the line. No Amtrak, however.

Las Vegas, one of the premier tourist destinations of the country, has no train station. Bus stations it has got, airports also. But no train station and no Amtrak service except via Thruway bus.

As we said previouly. Pity.

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5 comments:

Anonymous said...

Really wanted to take a train... rats!

Anonymous said...

As of today the plans by Amtrak to run Targo trains from cali to LV were scrapped, after the train spent two years in depot waiting for a dayview, but there are two competing progects the MagLev, the superspeed train from Disneyland to LV, and conventional High Class service from Victorville??? California to LV.(Desert Express)

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Anonymous said...

How silly is this... why waste money when you can use what is already there.

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