When completed, the Brightline West high-speed rail is expected to make the trip Las Vegas and Southern California in about two hours.

Contracting team is still awaiting a notice to proceed.

Private-equity bonds would boost 218-mile Brightline West project that is expected to break ground early next year.

The ultra-fast train would cut travel times between L.A. and Las Vegas in half, but a failed bond sale in the midst of a skeptical financial market has put the project on indefinite hold.

Shutdown enabled drilling for controversial planned new link to Jerusalem's Western Wall.

Private developer Texas Central announced last month the newest member of its team that will build the high-speed train connecting Houston and North Texas.

Italian contractor and its U.S. unit won key design-build award for planned rail link between Dallas and Houston.

With $3 billion in construction under way and ardent foes and friends, California’s high-speed rail project chugs along