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

After a $3. 5 billion contract was awarded for track and electrical work on California’s high-speed rail, critics are calling ...

California’s high-speed rail board approved a controversial business plan as well as a contract worth up to $3.5 billion ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

It's hard to exaggerate the role of the train in the American story or the romance of train travel, those iron horses galloping down tracks of steel. Why, then, has high-speed rail — so common in ...

China's high-speed rail system grew from zero to 35,000 kilometers in under two decades, reshaping how hundreds of millions of people live, work, and commute. From record ridership to deadly crashes ...

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