Imagine gliding across long distances at nearly 400 miles per hour on a train that floats silently above its tracks. No rattling wheels, no jolts, just a smooth, whisper-quiet ride. This is the ...

Fancy a trip from Athens to Istanbul in four hours? Or perhaps hopping on board in Madrid and getting off in Milan is more to your taste. It sounds like a train travellers dream but that's the plan ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The estimated cost of California’s long‑troubled high‑speed rail project has soared past $120 billion. State officials say the ...

A quarter century after the Acela began whisking passengers between Washington, D.C.; New York; and Boston, the Acela’s slightly faster replacement finally began service at the end of August. But the ...

For most of its 218-mile route, Brightline West plans to build in the median of Interstate 15 between Las Vegas and Southern California to help keep costs down. (Courtesy of Brightline West) RANCHO ...

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 ...

The interstate highway system transformed the U.S. economy and American life in the 20th century. High-speed rail can have a similar effect in the 21st century, reindustrializing and reconnecting ...