High speed trains have proved their worth across the world over the past 50 years. It’s not just in reducing journey times, but more importantly, it’s in driving economic growth, creating jobs ...

A proposed high-speed rail project between Los Angeles and San Francisco also got caught up in Buy America. In the early 2010s, French national railroad company SNCF tried to win a contract to ...

The quest for new high-speed trains isn't limited to the coasts, either. Early last month Amtrak and Texas Central Partners announced in a press release their exploratory partnership to "advance ...

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 ...

California. America Is Taking a High-Speed Train to Bankruptcy Every dollar wasted on political pork, fraud, and poorly considered infrastructure makes the country’s fiscal situation even worse.

the slick French machine parked in Philadelphia also typifies America’s long, fraught history with fairly fast trains. This history teaches us that the country’s high-speed ambitions have long ...

The past few years has seen a renaissance in interest in high-speed rail in the United States, with a number of schemes either under construction or being developed. An advanced high-speed rail ...

"We need more of this!" Traveler shares honest review after riding aboard 'sleek' US high-speed train: 'The best train in ...

As demand for high-speed rail (HSR) continues to grow, the U.S. rail industry stands at the precipice of a transformative era. While many are familiar with HSR’s potential to revolutionize travel, ...

It was public transportation. At this moment, bumper to bumper in rush hour traffic, I yearned for the trains. High-speed railways in this country have stalled because they’re costly. President Biden ...

“You stand behind it and say, ‘It has to be 100 percent made in America,’ you’re not going to get a [high-speed] rail system.” The debate involves just one of a series of trade-offs the ...

And the return of that eternal refrain: What if America, like our peers in China, Japan, France, Spain, Morocco, and Uzbekistan (the list goes on), could have a functioning high-speed rail network?