One-hundred and eighty-five miles is the distance by road, presumably, from Las Vegas in Nevada to Victorville in California.
We know for sure that that is the railway mileage between those two southwestern U.S. communities. This, according to Brightline in its Sept. 18, 2018 “Brightline to Build Express Intercity Passenger Rail Connecting Southern California and Las Vegas: Brightline to Acquire XpressWest and Develop the Second Privately Funded Corridor in the United States” news release.
And how is this relevant?
Well, it’s relevant because in the year 2022, initial high-speed passenger train service between the aforementioned southern Nevada and southern California communities is expected