The CR450 is the new jewel in the crown of Chinese railway engineering. The Asian country, always determined to go one step ...

- Three of the 85 people on the train were killed. Dozens were taken to area hospitals. A high-speed Amtrak train that derailed near DuPont on Monday, killing three people and sending dozens to the ...

Amtrak train 188 was traveling more than 100 mph just before it derailed in Philadelphia on Tuesday night, killing eight people and sending more than 200 to hospitals, the National Transportation ...

The vast majority of train trips in America are pretty leisurely and slow. Most of the time, train travel is a romantic way to get around, but it’s not necessarily a fast one. That is, unless you live ...

Behind more than 70 million high-speed rail journeys a year lies a web of safety systems. At nearly 200 mph, even a single failure can have dramatic consequences.

China is racing to build a new kind of train that does not just rival jetliners, it threatens to redefine what “high speed” even means on land. Engineers are now testing a magnetic levitation system ...

A man described as in his mid 20s died after being struck by a New Jersey Transit train in Rockland County's Nanuet on Wednesday, Metropolitan Transportation Authority police said. At about 2: 55 p.m.

(CNN) — At 186 miles per hour, the landscape starts to blur. A mile disappears every 20 seconds. An entire town can blink by in the time it takes to remember its name. High-speed trains are, as the ...