When it comes to high-speed rails, the United States is way behind other nations around the world. However, there is ...

An ambitious state-run high-speed rail project linking Los Angeles and San Francisco has gone off track.

Differences in African rail gauges are just one challenge facing the continent’s ambition for a transcontinental integration.

China is building new high-speed rail lines that dive underneath major waterways, providing fast services without disrupting ...

This article was produced by National Geographic Traveller (UK). On 10 May 1869, history was hammered into the ground in Promontory, Utah. Shortly after noon on a sunny spring day, hundreds of ...

That figure is about four times the original sticker price of $33 billion that was put to voters in 2008, when California ...

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 ...

Gavin Newsom’s transport secretary has admitted criticism of California’s high-speed rail is justified — as estimates of the ...

On 10 May 1869, history was hammered into the ground in Promontory, Utah. Shortly after noon on a sunny spring day, hundreds of onlookers gathered in a tent city, hastily constructed in the ...