high speed rail

Business leaders and economists have joined forces with union bosses to urge ministers to press ahead with plans for a new high-speed rail link.

Beyond controversies and cost concerns, high-speed trains are reducing hurdles posed by China’s size, bringing benefits in tow and posing challenges for the country’s competitors.

America is looking for answers and solutions, and it may have found a good one in the form of an ambitious national high-speed rail network.

Trainmaker Talgo Inc. said Friday it can't promise it will stay in Milwaukee if Wisconsin scuttles its plans for a high-speed rail project as Gov.-elect Scott Walker has proposed.

Two bullet trains glided silently out of a glossy new station Tuesday to inaugurate China's latest high speed rail line, as officials boasted of setting world records using domestic technology.

Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger is riding the rails — China's new high speed train lines — engaging in a little window shopping while peddling Californian exports and tourism in the world's second-largest economy.

Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger is engaging in a little window-shopping of China's new high-speed train lines while peddling Californian exports and tourism in the world's second-largest economy.

A rebuilt Prussian palace in Berlin. High-speed rail from Lisbon to Kiev. A new visitor center for Britain's Stonehenge.

They're just some of the big-ticket European projects put on hold by the continent's government debt crisis.

There's a new competitor in the race to create a high-speed rail line connecting Las Vegas and Southern California.

Projects in California, Florida and Illinois are among the winners announced Thursday by the White House — the start of what some Democrats tout as a national rail-building program that could rival the interstate highways begun in the Eisenhower era.