Canada has been talking about high-speed rail since the 1980s, yet travelers between Toronto and Montreal still crawl along at speeds that would embarrass most European commuter trains. While ...

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 ...