Las Vegas Railway Express : OTCQB: XTRN) -- The X Train Announces Its Logistics Plan to Open LA to Vegas on the Western Alignment
October 21, 2014 at 09:30 am EDT
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LAS VEGAS, NV--(Marketwired - Oct 21, 2014) - The Las Vegas Railway Express, Inc. (OTCQB: XTRN), known as the Vegas X Train, with planned luxury train travel service between Los Angeles and Las Vegas, announced today it has begun the engineering of the route to Las Vegas via conventional rail on what it calls the Western Alignment. The original plan by the X Train was to traverse the Cajon Pass to Barstow and then north to Las Vegas. As capacity on that route became restricted, X Train reached out to UNLV's Rail Engineering program headed by Dr. Harry Teng to plan the logistics of an alternative route to Las Vegas. The UNLV plan is consistent with the RTC's plan of 2007 which shows access to Las Vegas via rail from the west rather than via the heavily trafficked Cajon Pass.
"We have spent the last year re-tooling our efforts to run the X Train service between Los Angeles and Las Vegas and based on the findings of UNLV's Rail Engineering Group, have concluded that the route from LA to Mojave to Barstow to Las Vegas would avoid the rail traffic of the Cajon Pass," stated Michael Barron, CEO of the X Train. "We have reached out to local and statewide support for this project and have found a number of our representatives who are energized about assisting in opening this third corridor of travel to Las Vegas," Barron said.
"We are right on track with our planned route between LA to Vegas and now we are going to incorporate the Club X class service to existing passenger trains. This will make train travel much more enjoyable again."
About Las Vegas Railway Express
Las Vegas Railway Express, Inc. is a publicly traded company (OTCQB: XTRN) that is currently in the process of designing and implementing an expedited, luxury train service from the Los Angeles basin to Las Vegas and on other selected passenger rail routes across the US. Known as the "X-Train" the service will utilize conventional rail rights of way and passenger rail equipment -- outfitted in a First Class configuration -- to deliver a new, exciting and cost efficient way to travel to Las Vegas. Service departures are planned to be Thursday and Friday to Las Vegas with returns on Sunday and Monday back to Los Angeles. In addition, the X Train will also offer the ability for its passengers to book hotel rooms, transportation transfers, entertainment & show tickets and other travel incidentals. For more information, please visit the Company website at http://www.vegasxtrain.com.
United Rail Inc, formerly Las Vegas Railway Express, Inc., focuses on providing conventional passenger rail from Los Angeles to Las Vegas. The Company focuses on providing X-Train service, which traverse the route in approximately five and half hours. The proposed route of the X-Train is approximately 340 miles, starting at Los Angeles (LA) Union Station, California till the destination at Las Vegas, Nevada. The Company focuses on offering its train service as a tour package similar to how cruise lines work, with a package of train ticket, hotel, transfers and complimentary first cocktail onboard. The Company let customers book their tour package with hotels in Las Vegas, including MGM Resorts, The Wynn Resort, Caesars Resort, The Plaza Hotel and Mandalay Resorts, through the X Train Website, www.vegasxtrain.com, or through www.xtrainvacations.com7.