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 ...

A proposed high-speed rail service could significantly transform travel along the Northeast Corridor this year, writes ...

Florida’s private high-speed rail operator, Brightline, is facing a major financial crunch that has bondholders bracing for a ...

California's high-speed rail funding was delayed yet again, causing some to wonder if the project truly is a train to nowhere ...

The Golden State’s long-delayed high-speed rail project has completed construction on a massive 150-acre railhead facility in Kern County — a key logistical milestone that will allow track-laying to ...

California’s bullet train can’t catch a break. The state’s High-Speed Rail Authority board punted a vote Wednesday on its long-awaited business plan — after it was revealed that the project’s cost had ...

With high-speed rail ambitions in California delayed by years and coming in at a higher-than-expected cost, Lou Thompson, who sat on the state's high-speed rail peer review group, said "failure is ...

Mayor Wilson joined the Portland Metro Chamber in urging the Oregon Prosperity Council to advance the plans.

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 ...

California lawmakers demand the state's high-speed rail project be abandoned after projected costs surge by more than 700% past original estimates.