Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. In 2013, Elon Musk talked about the Hyperloop. A futuristic transport system built around near-vacuum tubes designed to whisk ...

Maglev rail projects have a 100% failure rate in U.S. To the Editor: The recent op-ed written by Mark Stull on abandoning the idea of commuter rail in New Hampshire is sorely misinformed. Mr. Stull is ...

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 ...

The construction of what is intended to be the world’s fastest train, the Chuo Shinkansen Maglev, which is intended to link Tokyo to Nagoya, with a potential future extension to Osaka, is currently ...

ROME, March 12 (Reuters) - An Italian company has conducted what it says is the first test of magnetic levitation (maglev) transport on an existing railway track, a technology that has the potential ...

China has produced the first of a new breed of maglev trains capable of speeds up to 600 km/h (373 mph), or nearly half the speed of sound. It says these will be the fastest ground transport services ...

The T-Flight is a maglev train that hit a record-breaking speed of 387 mph on a short test track — but engineers want to double that rate so the train can carry passengers at speeds faster than if ...