High Speed Rail From Los Angeles to Phoenix? What Would It Look Like?

High Speed Rail is booming in the United States. Where will it pop up next? Could it be from Los Angeles to Phoenix to join the HSR work currently being done in California? Could we see high speed train travel from Phoenix to San Francisco or downtown Los Angeles to Las Vegas.
In this video I will explore what a hypothetical high speed rail route between the Los Angeles and Phoenix metro area might look like, with route analysis, travel time estimates, and cost estimates that will provide a broad idea of what something like this could entail. This is accompanied by renderings in Unreal Engine 5 so that you can SEE what it might look like in the places it would run through. These include Los Angeles, the San Gabriel Valley, Ontario, the San Bernardino Valley, The Coachella Valley, the Sonoran desert, and Phoenix, Arizona.

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"View of the Empire State Building in New York City from the Top of the Rock at 30 Rockefeller Plaza during sunset. The tower was illuminated in green in honor of Climate Week NYC"
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"Different view of the historic Phoenix Union Station built in 1923 and located at 401 W. Harrison St. Phoenix, Az. Listed in the National"
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"The north side of the historic Phoenix Union Station — in Phoenix, Arizona. Former Union Station of the Southern Pacific and Santa Fe Railroads. Designed in the Mission Revival Style, by Peter Kiewit in 1923. A rail station on the National Register of Historic Places."
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Chapters:

0:00 Hey, Its Your Old Pal Lucid Stew Again
0:17 The Metros Involved
2:55 HSR Guiding Principles
3:50 The Setup
4:38 Los Angeles
8:24 The Inland Empire
11:19 San Timoteo Canyon and San Gorgonio Pass
12:28 Coachella Valley
13:44 The Desert
15:05 Phoenix
17:08 Cost Estimation Algorithm
17:47 Brightline West Style Cost
18:02 A Faster Version, More Like CAHSR
25:30 Faster Version Travel Times
26:12 Demand and Comparison to Air Travel
26:58 Faster Version Cost
27:35 Thanks and Up Next
28:00 See You On That Big, Beautiful Freeway!

Topics:

High Speed Rail
HSR
Los Angeles
Phoenix
California
Arizona
Los Angeles International Airport
LAX
Los Angeles Union Station
Port of Long Beach
Port of Los Angeles
Metro
Metrolink
Amtrak
Valley Metro
Phoenix Sky Harbor International Airport
Phoenix Union Station
Maricopa
The Inland Empire
Ontario International Airport
Coachella Valley
Palm Springs International Airport
Brightline West
Alstom Avelia Liberty
Siemens American Pioneer 220