LATHEN, Germany – A high-tech train that floats on powerful magnetic fields smashed into a maintenance car on an elevated test track Friday, killing 23 people and injuring 10 – the first fatalities on ...

When you finish lugging your bags through Shanghai’s massive Pudong International airport and recover from the blast of cigarette smoke in the lobby, you have two main ways to get to town. First, a ...

The idea of using magnetic levitation to run a high-speed railroad has been around since 1934, when a German scientist named Hermann Kemper received a patent on the technology. Such trains would be ...

The planned construction of the high-tech Transrapid maglev train in Bavaria has been cancelled due to massive cost increases, Germany's transportation minister announced on Thursday. "The Munich ...

LATHEN, Germany - A high-tech train that floats on powerful magnetic fields smashed into a maintenance car on an elevated test track Friday, killing 23 people and injuring 10 - the first fatalities on ...

The Shanghai Transrapid maglev train at a station in Shanghai, Nov. 9, 2009. Photo by: MARSHALL ALLEN / LAS VEGAS SUN A newly created alliance of local transit agencies will try to persuade federal ...

LATHEN, Germany – A high-tech train that floats on powerful magnetic fields smashed into a maintenance car on an elevated test track Friday, killing 23 people – the first fatalities on a maglev train.

FRANKFURT, March 31 (Reuters) - The abrupt demise of Germany's first commercial Transrapid maglev train route has sent all parties involved scurrying to avoid responsibility for the political fallout.

The proponents of a maglev train line between Las Vegas and Southern California say a Chinese government-controlled bank has agreed to loan up to $7 billion to help build the high-speed transportation ...

They call it the Magnetschnellbahn and people from hundreds of miles away travel to this remote farm village to catch a glimpse of the experimental train with no wheels. Camcorders and cameras in hand ...

China may eschew foreign technology for a proposed high-speed rail line between Shanghai and Hangzhou to slash costs by a third, a Shanghai rail official said on Tuesday in the latest blow for Germany ...