It is billed as the easiest way to visit New York, Venice, Paris and the Sahara in a single day. But a slick USD 650m monorail linking Las Vegas's famous casinos is in trouble - and its problems are causing a headache on Wall Street. Plastered with Vegas logos, the elevated train plies a route behind the vast hotels that line the Strip - the desert city's main thoroughfare, where tourists can peruse live lions...

Las Vegas - Can the Las Vegas Monorail double down to avoid going bust? Three years after beginning operations, the four-mile, USD 650-million private rail line that stretches from behind the MGM Grand to the Sahara hotel-casino is attracting about 22,285 riders a day -- far below the 54,000 predicted when the project was launched. This summer, Fitch Ratings downgraded the monorail's bond rating, already in junk status, and said financial default appeared probable.