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 ...

TSURU, YAMANASHI, JAPAN – It is a streak of quicksilver shooting through the foothills of Mt. Fuji, a vision of the future spotted instantly within a tranquil tableau. The world’s fastest train – ...

The National Action Network Greater Baltimore Chapter, Maryland’s largest affiliate of the leading civil rights organization, endorsed Northeast Maglev and the proposed Phase One of the SCMAGLEV train ...

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 ...

I have volunteered and been actively involved with Citizens Against the SCMaglev and the nonprofit Maryland Coalition for Responsible Transit to oppose the proposed magnetic levitation transportation ...

As China builds out the next generation of magnetic levitation trains, the U.S. has a grand total of one maglev line in development. Or, make that had one in development, because Transportation ...

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 ...