Japan continues to set the standards for high-speed transport with its latest prototype, a magnet-powered train designed by Central Japan Railway Co. A prototype Series Lo train was unveiled at a test ...

SHANGHAI, China -- The sleek white train zipped noiselessly out of a futuristic station in Shanghai, carrying Chinese and German leaders -- and hopes for a new era in railway technology. The world's ...

An electromagnetic suspension line has received the green light to move forward in Orlando.Watch: Magnetic rail line approved for OrlandoThe train would be the first of its kind in the country, but ...

In China, a new “sky train” system glides 33 feet above street level without using any electricity or fuel at all. The 2,600-foot-long, 88-passenger Red Rail in southern China’s Xingguo country is the ...

To get up to top speed, bullet trains have to pull a huge amount of electrical current from the grid. typically through unsightly overhead power lines. But this newly debuted train prototype from ...

Letter-writer Sam McCleneghan stands to be corrected. This is an excerpt from an article by Martin Fackler of the Associated Press: “Wednesday, Jan. 1, SHANGHAI, China – The sleek white train zipped ...

The country that invented the bullet train now has something much faster: the floating bullet train. It’s called a “maglev” train, for “magnetic levitation.” Instead of wheels: magnets. Instead of an ...

Add this to the list of theoretical high-speed transit options this country desperately needs—a magnetic levitating train (!) that will shoot passengers between New York and Washington D.C. in roughly ...

We 100% agree with the recent commentary by Angelette C. Aviles about the maglev dream (“Why Maryland’s maglev dream doesn’t track,” April 21). Instead of a dream, the proposed maglev train has been a ...