The Brightline West project will connect Nevada’s largest city to Southern California in just over two hours, this is reported by the railway transport news portal Railway Supply.

The high-speed rail line

The $12 billion high-speed rail project between Las Vegas and Southern California in the USA will receive $3 billion from the Department of Transportation under the Biden administration.

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Nevada Senators Catherine Cortez Masto and Jackie Rosen announced the investment in the line’s construction, praising the funding and emphasizing the expected creation of 35,000 jobs.

The high-speed rail line

The Brightline West line will be a fully electric 218-mile route with speeds reaching approximately 286 miles per hour from the main station in Las Vegas to Rancho Cucamonga, a city about 30-40 miles from Los Angeles, where it will connect to Southern California.

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