Stephen Mattingly, a civil engineering professor at the University of Texas at Arlington, explains why high-speed rail projects in much of the country so often go off track. Dr. Stephen Mattingly ...

California is courting global investors to fund and run high-speed rail segments, shifting strategy as costs rise and funding ...

Since August, train travelers between Washington, D.C., and Boston have been zipping along the country’s busiest rail line at speeds of up to 160 mph, the fastest in America. Headlines proclaimed high ...

Maglev bullet trains promise a future where steel wheels and clattering rails give way to smooth, floating speed. Yet the reality on today’s tracks is more nuanced, with some systems gliding entirely ...

As per the latest update from the National High Speed Rail Corporation Limited (NHSRCL), they are installing tunnel hoods at ...

At 186 miles per hour, the landscape starts to blur. A mile disappears every 20 seconds. An entire town can blink by in the time it takes to remember its name. High-speed trains are, as the name ...

Ten years into a dream to connect Vancouver, B.C., Seattle and Portland via a high-speed rail line, stakeholders and backers of the mega-project said Wednesday that they’re still very much onboard — ...

California is getting closer to laying high-speed rail tracks after state officials finished a new rail facility in Kern County, Gov. Gavin Newsom announced. “With the completion of the Southern ...

"Track and systems construction is the moment this project truly begins to become a railroad," said the chair of the rail authority's board.

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Brightline crashes dominate the news, but if critics were really concerned about the money being spent, they'd root for high-speed rail to succeed.