About every twenty minutes, someone announces a new plan to link Los Angeles and Las Vegas. No one actually goes much beyond the announcement stage and I'm kinda skeptical any of 'em will. Some propose to use existing rails. That means they'd be slow and clunky and a lot of those rails apparently need major repairs. But the proposals that plan to lay new tracks would cost zillions. So none of the ideas look too promising…and it's also worth noting that some wouldn't even connect L.A. and Vegas. They'd link Anaheim or Victorville to Vegas. Even after reading this article, I don't understand why no one can make L.A. to Vegas work.