West Coast Spine

Victorville, CA

Stop on the proposed 17,000-mile maglev network. Next stop: San Bernardino, CA (29.5 mi).

About Victorville

Victorville is a city in the Victor Valley in San Bernardino County, California. Its population as of the 2020 census was 134,810.

Source: Wikipedia summary (full article). Population and facts as published there.

Cost breakdown (proposal-scale estimates — see math)

⚠️ All figures below are parametric estimates scaled from the proposal's own budget ($8.5T ÷ 17,000 mi ≈ $500M per mile), not engineering quotes. Methodology is shown so you can check the math.

Item	Basis	Estimate
Terminal construction	Large-city terminal (range $2–4B)	$3B
Land acquisition	Regional factor 1.5× on $200M base	$300M
Track: Victorville → San Bernardino	29.5 mi × $500M/mi	$14.8B
Annual operations (share)	Staffing, power, maintenance	$60M/yr
Stop total (excl. annual ops)		$18.1B

Best terminal location (proposed)

the Victorville station district near the planned Brightline West site. Brightline West has already selected Victorville for its Las Vegas high-speed rail station, which would make this a rare two-system transfer point. The I-15 corridor through the city is wide-open desert-fringe land. It captures the entire High Desert population plus Vegas-bound travelers.

Before / after

Before and after aerial mock-up of the proposed maglev terminal at Victorville, CA

Aerial mock-up (illustrative, not an engineering rendering). Left: the proposed site today. Right: with the maglev terminal.

🛤️ Infill stops toward San Bernardino: the proposal envisions more stops than cities — smaller stations between majors. Plausible infills on this leg:

Cajon Junction — unincorporated community at the top of the Cajon Pass, the corridor's pinch point.
Devore — small community in the pass along I-15.
Muscoy — unincorporated community at the corridor's south foot approaching San Bernardino.

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