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[just Scottie]

It’s not out of the realm of possibility that Amtrak would be willing to just buy out the whole project Xtrain. I think they are ready to go, it’s just approval to run on tracks which aren’t theirs which is the hold up. Amtrak wants to make money too and could just decide to take it over, it would cost them peanuts since most of the work is done already.

“Amtrak has had discussions with Las Vegas Xpress, formerly known as X-Train, and is exploring an operations agreement between Amtrak and Las Vegas Xpress,” said Olivia Irvin, Amtrak spokeswoman.

“I am scheduling to run in July 2020 as an Amtrak train,” Barron said

Meanwhile, Union Pacific Railroad confirmed it has had talks with Barron about the potential use of its tracks for the proposed privately operated passenger rail service, but no lease has been signed.

“We remain in active discussions with United Rail (also known as X-Train/Las Vegas Rail Xpress),” said Tim McMahan, Union Pacific spokesman.

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