[2] Though $45 million was appropriated in 2005 for the planning phase for the first 40 mi (64 km) segment, the money was never spent, and was finally reallocated to a highway project in a Las Vegas Airport in June 2010.

[3] American Magline Group, working with the California-Nevada Super Speed Train Commission, has received most of the government funds released so far.

The German consortium famous for the Shanghai Maglev Train, Transrapid International, has performed some research into it as well; hoping to demonstrate its technology on a long-distance route.

[5] In September 2019, it was reported that Brightline West, formerly known as XpressWest, and Virgin Trains USA, intended to begin construction in the first half of 2020 of a competing non-maglev route between Victor Valley and Las Vegas.

[6] In the late 1970s and 1980s, Nevada politicians talked of a "bullet train" to connect Southern California to Las Vegas.

[8] The availability of these funds for the Maglev project were withdrawn at the direction of Reid by language contained in the Federal "Jobs Bill" passed in March 2010.

[citation needed] While the Super Speed Train Commission is ostensibly a bi-state body, there is a wrinkle, a senior Transportation Department official said.