True high-speed rail has not yet made it to the U.S., but that will change soon. Here are the projects currently being developed. By Alexander Nazaryan In 1965, President Lyndon B. Johnson signed ...

AmeriStarRail, a startup specializing in high-speed and intermodal passenger rail, pitched a partnership with Amtrak to ...

AmeriStarRail has pitched a Los Angeles to New York high-speed rail project, which would travel through the High Desert.

Implementing high-speed rail nationwide would be detrimental to these towns, in turn undermining key parts of the overall ...

U.S. high-speed rail is delayed. Buy America has a history of derailing high-speed rail projects. DesertXpress, a private company trying to build high-speed rail between the Los Angeles area and ...

Ben Jones, CNN (CNN) -- High speed trains have proved their worth across the world over the past 50 years. It's not just in reducing journey times, but more importantly, it's in driving economic ...

America's high-speed rail off to a slow start President Obama may call a nationwide high-speed passenger rail network a priority, but it's going to take a lot more than $8 billion to make it happen.

For that to happen, explains Eric Goldwyn, one of the report’s authors, Washington must take the lead on planning American high-speed rail. No other country has built this infrastructure without ...

The Dallas-to-Houston bullet train project has hit another obstacle.

The European Union has 5,316 miles of high-speed rail, China's network exceeds 31,000 miles, while America has a high-speed line mileage of zero. But the high-speed rail revolution may well be ...

It aims to be America’s first genuine high-speed rail. The project , unlike the one in Florida, whose construction costs have nearly all been paid by Brightline, has received $3 billion in ...

This map from the High Speed Rail Alliance shows America's foetal high-speed rail network. Only two high-speed lines are under construction, marked in purple - a 220mph LA to San Francisco line ...