A closer look at the “golden age of rail" Under the headline “GOLDEN AGE OF RAIL,” Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy recently announced $5.3 billion for railroad projects, via the recently renamed National Railroad Partnership Program. The funding includes roughly...
Why not here? In 1962, two years before Japan began running its Shinkansen high-speed trains and launched the modern era of high-speed rail, the science fiction writer Arthur C. Clarke predicted that railways were in their “final chapter.” The runaway success of...
Help build congressional support for high-speed rail this year. The American High-Speed Rail Act would authorize up to $41 billion annually over five years—$205 billion total—to plan, build, and expand a national high-speed passenger rail network at 186 mph or...
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