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The contractor has begun prep for the platform build and has done the rail moves.  Here are two videos of the rail work over last two years or so:  

Ooooops!  Sorry, missed that.

Excerpted from the Midwest High Speed Rail Association (https://www.midwesthsr.org/new-regulations-allow-stronger-lighter-safer-modern-trains?eType=EmailBlastContent&eId=3f131ba3-c21f-412b-add6-d49e7b699bcf):      ...

Here is an article with a Las Vegas perspective on the Virgin/Brighine: https://www.reviewjournal.com/business/tourism/richard-branson-virgin-to-partner-with-brightline-high-speed-rail-1528571/

It is probably good news for the XW line too.  New money.

The run-thru tracks at LAUS (not LAUPT) are in engineering design and should start construction in about 18-24 months.

No, 2033 for the full Phase I.  2025 for Bakersfield to SF.

Can't speak for the rooms at the Weatherford, but ate at the restaurant while waiting for out train.  It was really good and very inexpensive.

Anybody heard anything new on this project?

Well, with a dedicated dual track ROW and brand new equipment, that should not be much of a problem.

Not to mention that very little of it is private land.

As I wrote before, the last info release was that property acquisition start in June of this year.

With passenger loads to be about 15,800 a day at the start, that would be 39 Round Trips trains a day LV to Victorville, more than just a small number of trains. Brightline did say they expected to lay out somewhere around $3.5B. By your estimate that would be about $1.85B at most to "drop the...

The majority of the XW ROW is on BLM property for which they already negotiated and have the signed rights to build the tracks on.

The High Desert Corridor is an entirely new route and ROW. Land acquisition began in June. It is/will be owned by CalTrans.

Not just tourists, gamblers and show goers and partiers (sp). I15 is very frequently jammed on Friday and Sunday nights.

I don't know if they got it for cheap, but the EIR and FRA ROD required hundreds of millions of dollars to process and get through the process, that includes the preliminary engineering of the whole route and design.

This is a complementary project. The High Desert Corridor just getting underway. It is an Interstate Highway with rail ROW built into it. It will terminate between Victorville and Palmdale. Palmdale is the current northern terminal of Metrolink. In the future, it will be a station for the...

They all charge these days, and quite bit.

CHSRA is not going down the Grapevine, but through Tehatchipi Pass and down to Palmdale, then mostly along State 14 and under the San Gabriels.