On June 3, 1998, an ICE high-speed train was travelling from Munich to Hamburg when a broken wheel tyre shot up through the floor of one carriage. A passenger rushed to alert the conductor, but before ...

It's hard to exaggerate the role of the train in the American story or the romance of train travel, those iron horses galloping down tracks of steel. Why, then, has high-speed rail — so common in ...

Lufthansa Group is expanding its airport-rail concept to Brussels, integrating ICE high-speed trains into airline bookings to replace short-haul feeder flights. While the model promises seamless ...

On 10 May 1869, history was hammered into the ground in Promontory, Utah. Shortly after noon on a sunny spring day, hundreds of onlookers gathered in a tent city, hastily constructed in the ...