China is racing to build a new kind of train that does not just rival jetliners, it threatens to redefine what “high speed” even means on land. Engineers are now testing a magnetic levitation system ...
As I rocketed out of Shanghai aboard a train at nearly 200 miles an hour, the speed reduced the trees outside my window to greenish blurs. I had the out-of-body sense that I was fast-forwarding my way ...
A train pulls out of Shangrao station, where the author changed trains on his way to the city of Chongqing. As I rocketed out of Shanghai aboard a train at nearly 200 miles an hour, the speed reduced ...