rail. one california project that costs a bundle would link the small towns of borden and corcoran. critics are calling it the train to nowhere. but at least it goes fat. william la jeunesse is live. >> reporter: some believed the first leg would be in los angeles, orange county, san francisco, san jose. now critics are take millions will be spent on a train to nowhere ridden by no one. nothing is bigger than the president's dream of a bullet train. >> imagine whisking through town. >> reporter: critics call it dead on arrival. >> it's like giving bernie madoff another chance to invest your port foal yeah. >> traveling over 240 miles an hour over an 8-hundred mile