In this aerial image taken on August 26, 2021, vehicles drive past farmland and part of the California High Speed Rail Authority San Joaquin River viaduct construction project alongside US Highway ...

High speed rail is moving forward in California, but progress is pretty stagnant around the rest of the country. Still, there are a lot of proposals out there, and when placed on one map, they ...

They depict how long it took to travel by train across the U.S. at various points from 1800 to 1932. ... These Old Maps Show That America’s Rail System Hasn’t Improved In Almost A Century.

Last month, graphic designer and railroad aficionado Alfred Twu published a stunning map of what America would look like if virtually every last nook and cranny of the country were connected by a ...

Twenty-five years from now, 80 percent of America will be connected with a high-speed rail. In order for people to get to Nebraska from Chicago, they don't go through St. Louis. They go through Iowa.

The story of a continent is told by the maps and adverts for the Canadian Pacific Railway and the vast atlas of America's transcontinental railroad, to maps of the tram system which connected ...

According to Mark Ovenden, author of “Railway Maps of the World,” the pattern of human settlement, as we now see it in America, Asia and Australasia, can be attributed in large part to railways.