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 ...

California’s flailing High-Speed Rail project is undergoing yet another marketing smokescreen, with soaring costs leading officials to pitch a pipe dream of bullet trains depositing riders at Yosemite ...

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 ...

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 ...

Ten years into a dream to connect Vancouver, B.C., Seattle and Portland via a high-speed rail line, stakeholders and backers of the mega-project said Wednesday that they’re still very much onboard — ...

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 ...