American railroads were once the envy of the world and the engine of its industrial age. But that hasn’t been the case for more than half a century.

This is an updated version of a story first published on April 5, 2026. The original video can be viewed here. The very model of modern engineering, it hums across the fruited plains at a top speed of ...

It's hard to exaggerate the role of the train in the American story or the romance of train travel, those iron horses galloping down tracks of steel. Why, then, has high-speed rail — so common in ...