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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...