Rail travel has come a long way from the slow chugging of steam engines. Today, the race for the fastest train has become a high-speed pursuit of groundbreaking technology, pushing the boundaries of ...

Japan is currently developing the world’s fastest train, the L0 Series, which is a Japanese maglev train being produced and tested by the Central Japan Railway Company (JR Central). This train is ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Imagine gliding across long distances at nearly 400 miles per hour on a train that floats silently above its tracks. No rattling ...

Opinions expressed by Entrepreneur contributors are their own. Could high speed trains, long envisioned to connect America’s vast expanses and decongest its axes of commute, soon become a reality? The ...

See how scientists proposed a model for a magnetic levitation (Maglev) train that shoots through a massive vacuum-sealed tube in order to reach orbital velocities and propel the train into outer space ...

Maglev trains float above their tracks, eliminating wheel–rail contact and allowing speeds far beyond conventional rail. However, this technological advantage comes with an invisible challenge: ...

SHANGHAI – From Pudong International Airport, the ride to the center of this city 30 kilometers away took all of 10 minutes on the maglev train. Maglev is magnetic levitation or electromagnetic ...

On a short stretch of track in northern China, a heavy block of engineering briefly moved with the urgency of a launched projectile. In a test that prioritised hardware limits over passenger comfort, ...

Central Japan Railway Co. said its magnetic levitation bullet train reached 603 kilometers an hour (375 miles an hour) during its test run Tuesday, breaking the speed record it set last week. The ...

TOKYO (Reuters) - The Japan Fair Trade Commission said on Friday that it would press criminal charges against four construction firms for suspected collusion over contracts for an $80 billion ...