High-speed rail systems are found all over the globe. Japan’s bullet train began operating in 1964. China will have 31,000 miles (50,000 kilometers) of high-speed track by the end of 2025. The fastest ...

True high-speed rail has not yet made it to the U.S., but that will change soon. Here are the projects currently being developed. By Alexander Nazaryan In 1965, President Lyndon B. Johnson signed a ...

Last month, France’s national railway operator released a glimpse of the designs for its upcoming fifth-generation high-speed train, the TGV Inoui. (TGV stands for train à grande vitesse, or “train of ...

If you’re boarding a Rail Europe train this month, whether it’s a sleeper train between major cities, a high-speed TGV, or a Channel crossing on Eurostar, take note that 2025 marks the 200th ...

Travelers and critical cargo in Egypt could soon be moving faster thanks to high-speed trains recently unveiled by Siemens Mobility. The company’s new version of its Velaro train, capable of speeds of ...

The future of federal funding for long-planned projects to bring high-speed rail to the United States is in flux. President Donald Trump said last week that the federal government “won’t pay” for ...

Merced-to-Bakersfield rail may open by Jan. 1, 2032, nearly two years before deadline Segment unlikely to turn profit, but expansion to L.A. and Bay Area can Key funding hinges on Cap-and-Trade ...

With the clawing back of $4 billion in federal grants to support it, the Trump Administration seems hell bent on ensuring that California’s high-speed rail project ends up as precisely the “train to ...

ARREST AND ESCAPING LAWFUL DETENTION. WELL, THE FUTURE OF CALIFORNIA’S HIGH SPEED RAIL IS IN QUESTION AGAIN, AFTER THE TRUMP ADMINISTRATION SAYS IT WILL NO LONGER SUPPLY FEDERAL FUNDING. SINCE THE ...

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