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For all your anti-UP rants ...

You may not have liked some of the things I mentioned about UP, but was there anything I mentioned that was untrue?

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Union Pacific put considerable time, effort and expense into Amtrak's LA-Vegas plan a few years ago.

Was that the plan that insisted on double-tracking on Cima Hill? Was that the plan that called for an all-new station in Las Vegas next to the Rio Hotel because there was apparently something fundamentally flawed with the platform and station at the Union Plaza Hotel? Was that the plan that had all sorts of hang-ups because of the migration pattern of a certain endangered desert tortoise? (this list is not all-inclusive)

Just wondering.

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It was not UP that killed the plan. Check with Amtrak.

For whatever reason or reasons (probably political), I'm afraid Amtrak is not a source to go to in an effort to find out why a restoration of LA-to-Vegas service is at a standstill. When they're not being tight lipped, they're blowing smoke up any orafice that happens to be present.