Building starts on high-speed rail line between Las Vegas and Los Angeles [Video]

• Work is scheduled to begin on Monday on a $12 billion high-speed passenger rail line from Las Vegas to the Los Angeles area.
• The rail line is expected to board millions of passengers by 2028, according to officials.
• Brightline West aims to have trains operational by the 2028 Los Angeles Summer Olympics.

Work is set to begin Monday on a $12 billion high-speed passenger rail line between Las Vegas and the Los Angeles area, with officials projecting millions of ticket-buyers will be boarding trains by 2028.

Brightline West, whose sister company already operates a fast train between Miami and Orlando in Florida, aims to lay 218 miles of new track between a terminal to be built just south of the Las Vegas Strip and another new facility in Rancho Cucamonga, California. Almost the full distance is to be built in the median of Interstate 15, with a station stop in San Bernardino …