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 ...

Since August, train travelers between Washington, D.C., and Boston have been zipping along the country’s busiest rail line at speeds of up to 160 mph, the fastest in America. Headlines proclaimed high ...

A major California High-Speed Rail project will begin next week in north Fresno with the closure of Highway 99’s northbound Herndon Avenue off-ramp. The closure will begin at 9 a.m. on Thursday, April ...

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 ...

Rail board OK’d settlement change order of up to $537.3M for Dragados Flatiron company. Change order ties payment to performance to help accelerate Central Valley track‑laying. Dragados Flatiron had ...

State auditors criticized California’s high-speed rail project from San Francisco to Los Angeles, saying the costly project ...