The Federal Railroad Administration has been directed byPresident Trump to initiate a review of the ongoing California High-Speed Rail project, whose costs have ballooned to over $128 billion since first being approved by state legislators in 2008. What is by now the most expensive American rail infrastructure project since the building of the First Transcontinental Railroad in the 1860s has ensnared Democrats and Republicans alike in its long history of delays and cost overruns.Related on Archinect: Nowhere fast: California's High-Speed Rail project is now twice the size of its originally proposed budgetThe estimated completion date of the entire State Rail Planrail was recently updated to 2050 with a $310 billion price tag. The project was originally slated to cost $33 billion and be completed in 2020. The 119-mile segment between Merced and Bakersfield thats currentlyunder constructionafter a $4 billion federal investmentis scheduled to be the first to openin the Central ...