Stories Tagged ‘Rail’


Via Rail: Silver & Blue

January 22, 2010
High-class accommodation. Superb meals. Incredible scenery. The trip of a lifetime awaits you in the Via Rail Silver Blue Class...

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Bullet Trains Make China Bigger. And Smaller.

October 30, 2009
The United States and China are latecomers to high-speed rail, with large-scale networks of bullet trains only recently viewed as...

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Soviet Engineer Promises 300-mph Railway In The Sky

October 29, 2009
Anatoly Younitsky dreams of a future where high-speed rail has no rails at all. The engineer from Gomel, Belarus has...

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A Counterpoint in California’s High-Speed Rail Debate

October 26, 2009
Editor’s note: Russ Peterson of Menlo Park, California, sent the following e-mail in response to Zach Rosenberg’s post, “NIMBY Won’t...

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NIMBY Won’t Stop California High-Speed Rail

October 23, 2009
Democracy, it has been said, is two wolves and a sheep voting on what to eat for dinner. We’re seeing...

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