China is building a massive undersea tunnel designed to carry bullet trains at full high-speed beneath one of the world’s busiest shipping channels. This video explores how engineers are pulling it ...

Behind more than 70 million high-speed rail services a year lies a web of safety systems. At nearly 200 mph, even a single failure can have dramatic consequences.

A 3,000-ton locomotive was careening down the tracks with no crew on board. Authorities tried—and failed—to stop it. Then one ...

Ride the rails, cable-cars and ski routes around Mürren, a remote Swiss village that’s stepping into a new era of ...

Jan. 11—The Great Northern Fast Mail train No. 27 came through Spokane every evening in the early 20th century. Its route from Chicago to the West Coast took more than 47 hours but was the fastest way ...

An Upper West Side pizza taste test, a can in need of opening and more reader tales of New York City in this week’s Metropolitan Diary. Dear Diary: The day after Thanksgiving, a question arose: What ...

First there was Spotify Wrapped. Then came Snapchat Wrapped, YouTube Wrapped, and even Uber Eats Wrapped. Shortly after, Saturday Night Live parodied the idea. If you thought you were officially ...

CHICAGO — Tickets for Metra’s popular Holiday Trains go on sale at noon on Monday. The beloved decorated trains are filled with holiday characters, and will run on five rail lines this December.

In September I had the opportunity to travel on Amtrak’s new, NextGen Acela trainsets. Here’s the good news, these trains are a major upgrade over the first generation Acela in terms of comfort, ride, ...

If there’s one thing that we’re excited for this Holiday season, it’s the newest drop from LEGO. The Holiday Express Train is finally here and shoppers have been getting their hands on it since the ...