I was exchanging texts last night with someone in Ohio who was surprised when I said that the U.S. doesn’t have a true high speed train. “What about Acela,” he...

While traveling abroad, many Americans have experienced true high-speed train rides. Most of them have come home thinking, “What the hell is wrong with the U.S.? Why don’t we have...

The day after the Rail Passengers Association’s Fall meeting concluded in Sacramento, twenty of us were given a tour of several construction sites for California’s high-speed rail system. We stopped...

Both before and after the two world wars, passenger trains in one form or another provided most of the public transportation in the U.S. Long-distance trains linked cities and connected...