A 2019 images of a maglev train similar to one that might connect Baltimore and Washington, D.C., (Photo courtesy Baltimore-Washington Rapid Rail) We all want faster, more efficient transportation.

The vision is very seductive: Being able to hop on a train in Baltimore and arriving in Washington, D.C., just 15 minutes later. Or, boarding that train in Washington and enjoying a smooth ride to New ...

Japan is about to unleash the fastest train the world has ever seen - the Superconducting Maglev, or SCMaglev. Capable of hitting a jaw-dropping 503 km/h, it will shrink the journey from Tokyo to ...

Maglev sounds as sci-fi as teleporters and hovercars. A train that levitates above a track using electromagnets and cruises at aircraft speeds? That couldn't possibly be a reality. Except it is. China ...

With speeds topping 500 km/h, the SCMaglev is set to transform travel between Tokyo and Osaka, making the journey faster than ...

Could the answer to endless hours on BW Parkway, calamitous commutes, and a region’s rage against the trappings of traffic come from a breathless feat of engineering, a bullet train found floating ...

The Federal Railroad Administration (FRA) on Aug. 1 announced that it will cancel two grants totaling more than $26 million for the Baltimore-Washington, D.C., Superconducting Magnetic Levitation ...

Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan (R) and his wife, Yumi, sit on board a maglev train in Japan in 2015. (Ko Sasaki/Ko Sasaki for The Washington Post) In his Sept. 13 letter, “You better believe Roosevelt ...

We’ll send you a myFT Daily Digest email rounding up the latest Asia-Pacific news every morning. On October 1 1964, nine days before the last Tokyo Olympics, the Tokaido Shinkansen bullet train began ...