An ambitious state-run high-speed rail project linking Los Angeles and San Francisco has gone off track.
High-speed rail can be found around the world. Yet so far, the projects haven't tracked in the U.S., where both the public and private sectors have faced ballooning costs and delays.
This article was produced by National Geographic Traveller (UK). On 10 May 1869, history was hammered into the ground in Promontory, Utah. Shortly after noon on a sunny spring day, hundreds of ...