By Jasmin Aline Persch
MSNBC
updated 8:43 a.m. PT, Wed., June. 25, 2008

Could America’s fastest train whisk us away from $4-a-gallon gas guzzlers?

Thanks to a $45 million infusion from a transportation bill signed by President Bush in early June, there could someday be a magnetic levitating train, or “maglev,” soaring from Disneyland to Las Vegas at a maximum speed of 310 mph — 180 mph on average.

After the research phase is complete in about three years, the private partnership behind the effort, American Magline Group, comes to its biggest crossroads: obtaining $12 billion in funding for construction.

Mapquest indicates the distance from Anaheim to Las Vegas is 264 miles and says you should be able to drive there in four hours and two minutes. But at 180 mph you could get to Vegas on this train in one hour and 46 minutes. More time to gamble away your money!!!