When something goes wrong at 186 mph: Inside the fast-reaction world of high-speed train drivers

Behind more than 70 million high-speed rail journeys a year lies a web of safety systems. At nearly 200 mph, even a single ...
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France’s new high-speed train design has Americans asking: Why can’t we have that?

Last month, France’s national railway operator released a glimpse of the designs for its upcoming fifth-generation high-speed train, the TGV Inoui. (TGV stands for train à grande vitesse, or “train of ...