That meant the train was not obligated to follow federal safety rules that require high-hazard flammable trains, or HHFTs, to ...

Countries in Europe and Asia have safe high-speed trains that can take you from city to city as fast as 200 miles per hour ... on what used to be freight line tracks. In short, they didn’t have to go ...

In 2002, Russia finished electrifying the 5,700-mile Trans-Siberian Railway, demonstrating that freight trains running on electric wire can travel very long distances over very harsh terrain.

It took 90 months for the China - Europe freight trains to complete their first 10,000 trips, but only six months to go from 100,000 to 110,000.