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

High-speed rail can be found around the world. Yet so far, the projects haven't tracked in the U.S., where both the public ...

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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. California's high-speed rail project is slated to receive billions from the state over the next two decades. (Rich Pedroncelli / ...

Bullet trains have become synonymous with speed, efficiency, and technological prowess. As countries like Japan and China push the boundaries of rail travel, the race for the fastest bullet train is ...

Differences in African rail gauges are just one challenge facing the continent’s ambition for a transcontinental integration.

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 ...

The project, first approved by California voters in 2008, continues to face scrutiny over delays, timeline changes and cost overruns Colson Thayer is a writer-reporter for PEOPLE covering home, travel ...