trains

Construction underway on the world’s longest tunnel immersed underwater

March 21, 2025Transportation

The Fehmarn Belt Link is set to connect Germany and Denmark through the Baltic Sea by car and train. Developers say the project will fundamentally reshape travel in the EU for the better, cutting the time it takes to get from Hamburg to Copenhagen in half. But German advocates aren’t so sure the benefits outweigh the risks.

A century-old British tram gets restored to its former glory

March 4, 2025Transit

Poems of the Hobo Road

March 24, 2018Arts, Culture & Media

Stockholm's highly-efficient subway system. Trains are known for running frequently and on time. They have large ridership but are not overly crowded because of the frequency of the trains.

US transportation is so far behind Sweden’s it’s not even funny

March 10, 2017Economics

Departure board on display at Museum of Modern Art, New York.

Those ‘flapping’ Solari boards at US train stations are leaving the terminal

September 12, 2016Technology

A migrant sits on her bags while waiting for a train in Presevo, Serbia.

No bathrooms. No heat. Aboard the decrepit refugee ‘cattle cars.’

January 21, 2016Justice

A bakery owner from Massachusetts used her vacation days to volunteer in a refugee transit camp. She slipped aboard one of the decrepit trains that take refugees from Macedonia to Serbia and this is what she saw.

A magnetically levitating (maglev) train operated by Central Japan Railway

How to bring high-speed trains to the US

August 20, 2015Economics

Japan’s high speed trains run upwards of 200 miles per hour while Amtrak’s Acela can only go its top speed of 150 for short stretches. The reason? Outdated infrastructure. After World War II, the US invested in cars, not trains, and today its passenger railways lag far behind countries in Europe and Asia. Harvard Business School professor Rosabeth Moss Kanter lays out a new vision for US transportation in her book “Move: Putting America’s Infrastructure Back in the Lead.”