At 186 miles per hour, the landscape starts to blur. A mile disappears every 20 seconds. An entire town can blink by in the time it takes to remember its name. High-speed trains are, as the name ...

Rail travel has come a long way from the slow chugging of steam engines. Today, the race for the fastest train has become a ...

Siemens Mobility ran the first test of a train set for Egypt's upgraded rail system last month on a segment of newly built track west of Cairo. While not the fastest train in the planned rail network, ...

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 ...