The U.S. High Speed Rail Association, an independent nonprofit organization that advocates for high-speed rail development, just published a map that shows what the country would look like with a ...

It doesn’t have the cachet of Route 66, and it’s not as scenic as the Pacific Coast Highway – but US 395 in the Evergreen State has its own underappreciated history and a certain amount of distinctive ...

WASHINGTON — Google has agreed to expand Google Maps data to include the locations of the nation's nearly 250,000 grade-level railroad crossings, the Federal Railroad Administration said Monday.

High speed rail is moving forward in California, but progress is pretty stagnant around the rest of the country. Still, there are a lot of proposals out there, and when placed on one map, they form an ...

There's a nationwide rail map that's making the rounds and Milwaukee's a key stop on this vision for high speed rail in the United States. Bobby Tanzilo introduced you to the Milwaukee subway map last ...

Surely one of the most appealingly eccentric publishing ventures of the year, this volume of maps was begun by Carpenter, a railroad enthusiast, more than a decade ago. Using colored inks to represent ...

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