Rail travel has come a long way from the slow chugging of steam engines. Today, the race for the fastest train has become a ...

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 ...

Countries like Japan and China are introducing ultra futuristic floating Maglev trains on top of their already superior high speed rail networks. These 400 mph beasts can reach top speeds like this by ...

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 ...

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, ...

A prefectural government panel in central Japan has approved measures presented by a major railway operator to address the ...

China demonstrates ultra-high-speed superconducting maglev reaching 700 km/h on a 400 metre track, highlighting advances in ...

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 ...

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 ...