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In 2020, Take a High-Speed Train from Beijing to London
Chinese High Speed Rail Link Will Connect Asia and Europe Chinese rail passengers already zip between cities on trains traveling three times faster than the average train in the States, and a 217-mph...
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Chinese Government to Build 215-MPH Bullet Trains in California
Chinese Bullet Train In Shanghai Khalidshou/WikipediaThe US has looked to China for help building railroads ever since Chinese laborers laid down the tracks for the Transcontinental Railroad in the...
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China Hopes New Shanghai Bullet Train Will Rev Up Interest in High-Speed Travel
Chinese Bullet Train In Shanghai Khalidshou/WikipediaChina, already outpacing the U.S., Japan and many European countries in the expansion of their railway system, has begun testing an even faster...
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High-Speed Rail Creeps Forward, With $2.4 Billion in Federal Funding Given to...
Japan's Shinkansen Bullet Train Parag.naik via WikimediaThe push for high-speed rail in America is picking up speed -- it's just happening really, really slowly. Yesterday, efforts to connect American...
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Archive Gallery: Thrilling Trains of the Future
July 1934 View Photo GalleryNothing makes you wish for a high-speed rail, a flying car, or a teleportation device like having to travel over Thanksgiving. Apparently, the future of chaos-free...
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China's New Super-City Will Merge Nine Urban Centers into a Single,...
The Pearl River Delta The new super-city will take in all the cities above (excepting Macau and Hong Kong), as well as Zhaoqing (due West of Foshan but out of frame. Croquant via WikimediaIf you're...
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China's International High Speed Rail Network Begins to Take Shape in Asia
Chinese Bullet Train In Shanghai Khalidshou/WikipediaLast year, China laid out a plan to extend its high speed rail network all the way to Germany and London to the West and down to Singapore to the...
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Beijing-Shanghai High Speed Rail Link Opens to the Public This Week
Shanghai-Hangzhou High Speed Rail Via Wikimedia CommonsJust three years after breaking ground, China will open the crown jewel of its high-speed rail network to the public this week. The 186 mile per...
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A Train to Space: All Aboard the 20,000-Mile-Per-Hour Low-Earth-Orbit Express
All Aboard the Space Train Next stop: low Earth orbit. StartramToday in grandiose space ambitions that would make even Newt Gingrich balk: a $60 billion, 1,000-mile long, 12-mile high,...
View ArticleIn 2020, Take a High-Speed Train from Beijing to London
Chinese rail passengers already zip between cities on trains traveling three times faster than the average train in the States, and a 217-mph line linking Wuhan and Guangzhou will soon be the fastest...
View ArticleChinese Government to Build 215-MPH Bullet Trains in California
The US has looked to China for help building railroads ever since Chinese laborers laid down the tracks for the Transcontinental Railroad in the 1860s. Now, California hopes a partnership with the...
View ArticleChina Hopes New Shanghai Bullet Train Will Rev Up Interest in High-Speed Travel
China, already outpacing the U.S., Japan and many European countries in the expansion of their railway system, has begun testing an even faster high-speed train, clocking in at 258.86 miles per hour...
View ArticleHigh-Speed Rail Creeps Forward, With $2.4 Billion in Federal Funding Given to...
The push for high-speed rail in America is picking up speed -- it's just happening really, really slowly. Yesterday, efforts to connect American cities with new high-speed…
View ArticleArchive Gallery: Thrilling Trains of the Future
Nothing makes you wish for a high-speed rail, a flying car, or a teleportation device like having to travel over Thanksgiving. Apparently, the future of chaos-free commuting…
View ArticleChina's New Super-City Will Merge Nine Urban Centers into a Single,...
If you're going to build the world's biggest megatropolis in the world's most populous country, you don't start from scratch. You take nine existing population centers and…
View ArticleChina's International High Speed Rail Network Begins to Take Shape in Asia
Last year, China laid out a plan to extend its high speed rail network all the way to Germany and London to the West and down to Singapore to the south by 2020. And naturally…
View ArticleBeijing-Shanghai High Speed Rail Link Opens to the Public This Week
Just three years after breaking ground, China will open the crown jewel of its high-speed rail network to the public this week. The 186 mile per hour (and that's regular…
View ArticleA Train to Space: All Aboard the 20,000-Mile-Per-Hour Low-Earth-Orbit Express
Today in grandiose space ambitions that would make even Newt Gingrich balk: a $60 billion, 1,000-mile long, 12-mile high, 20,000-miles-per-hour maglev train that starts on…
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Maryland's Maglev Train Gets First Round Of Federal Funding
Technology All aboard! For the past forever, high-speed rail in the United States has existed as a sugarplum dream, sweet to think about, but dissolving instantly upon contact with reality.
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Hyperloop Tech CEO Predicts The Hyperloop Could Become Reality by 2020
Technology Even without direct involvement from Elon Musk “I’m very comfortable by 2020 you and I will be sitting beside each other in a Hyperloop taking the first ride, and it’ll probably be 100 to...
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