High-speed rail, or train systems that are capable of speeds of at least 186 mph, simply doesn't exist in the United States. High-speed rail had its start in Japan in 1964 with the bullet train, and ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

Ambitious plans are underway to build a high-speed rail network across Africa, connecting countries, regions and creating a transcontinental beltway that can transport people at up to 320 kilometers ...

Then, the state of high-speed rail in the U.S. And, a look at the Mardi Gras Indians keeping tradition alive. High-speed rail ...