Las Vegas Railway Express

Originally, the service was planned to operate five days a week between downtown Los Angeles and Las Vegas, making a daily round trip Thursday through Monday, with an increase to forty trips weekly planned for five years after the start of operations. The X Train would have started in Los Angeles and used existing railroad tracks with “the possibility of utilizing the San Bernardino Santa Fe Depot as an origination point for operations,” according to presentation documents with the San Bernardino County Transportation Authority. Initially, the train was proposed to run as a conventional service along Union Pacific and BNSF-owned lines, hiring Amtrak to haul their private rail cars, while construction took place to convert sections of the route to high-speed. The increase in speed was claimed to reduce the trip from 4.5 hours by conventional rail to around 3.5 hours. The proposed double-tracking for high speed rail would have been built between Yermo and Las Vegas. A 500-room upscale hotel, dubbed “The X Hotel,” was proposed to be built above the Las Vegas train station in the final phase of the project. The final official proposed schedule was a round trip that departs Friday and returns Sunday. The service was expected to begin in September 2019. However the train was believed to start in July 2020 as an Amtrak train; it was later scheduled to start in 2023. It did not begin service and the company extinguished debts related to the train project as part of its transition into mapping.

Rolling stock

By November 2012, the company had purchased twelve passenger cars from unidentified sellers, with refurbishment expected to begin by the end of the year, though this was later pushed back to an undetermined date in early 2013. Rebuilding work was planned to take place in Las Vegas at a cost of about $1 million per car. By the time operations were intended to begin, the railroad's trainset were intended to consist of sixteen passenger cars, pulled by three EMD F59PH locomotives. Twelve cars would have been first-class passenger cars, with amenities including assigned seating, televisions and a bar area. There would also be several dedicated lounge cars and a service car with crew quarters and additional supplies.