In 1964, Japan shocked the world with the launch of the Shinkansen—a bullet train that defied postwar doubt and ...

California has dropped its legal fight to restore $4 billion in federal funding for the state’s high-speed rail project pulled by the Trump administration, saying the project will proceed without ...

California dropped its lawsuit against the Trump administration after it pulled roughly $4 billion in federal funding for the state’s high-speed rail project. Court records show that California ...

California sued after the Trump administration cut grants for the long-planned project. The state says it will seek private investors instead. By Francesca Regalado The California High-Speed Rail ...

Copyright 2026 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. Copyright 2026 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. The Cedar Viaduct, designed to take high-speed ...

When California voters in 2008 approved $9.95 billion in bonds to create the start of the state’s High Speed Rail system, they were offered a list of promises — few of which have come to pass. One was ...

"High-speed rail" is admittedly one of those dry-sounding infrastructure phrases that conjures thoughts of schedules and itineraries, but footage of a bullet train in action is entirely different.

It’s been 17 years since voters in Los Angeles County and statewide approved a high-speed rail system to connect the Los Angeles metro area with the Bay Area. But only this month has the California ...

A high-speed rail slammed into a herd of elephants, slaughtering seven and leaving one calf wounded in India Saturday. As many as 100 elephants were crossing the tracks when the train’s engineer ...

This is read by an automated voice. Please report any issues or inconsistencies here. A high-speed passenger train struck a herd of elephants in Assam state, killing seven and injuring a calf. Five ...

Seven wild Asiatic elephants were killed and a calf was injured when a high-speed passenger train collided with a herd crossing the tracks in India’s northeastern state of Assam early Saturday, local ...

For decades, the United States has imagined high-speed rail while nations like Japan, France and Spain simply built it, turning their bullet trains into symbols of efficiency and comfort. Beyond ...