YAMANASHI, Japan — It's become one of the main attractions in this sleepy town, just southwest of Tokyo. Several times a day, crowds gather atop an observation deck built specifically to view the ...

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 ...

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 ...

With speeds topping 500 km/h, the SCMaglev is set to transform travel between Tokyo and Osaka, making the journey faster than flying. But is it worth the massive cost? This video covers the tech, ...

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 ...

The Federal Railroad Administration (FRA) on Aug. 1 announced that it will cancel two grants totaling more than $26 million for the Baltimore-Washington, D.C., Superconducting Magnetic Levitation ...

The Tribune, now published from Chandigarh, started publication on February 2, 1881, in Lahore (now in Pakistan). It was started by Sardar Dyal Singh Majithia, a public-spirited philanthropist, and is ...