It's hard to exaggerate the role of the train in the American story or the romance of train travel, those iron horses galloping down tracks of steel. Why then has high-speed rail, so common in other countries, not tracked in the US. An ambitious state-run project connecting LA and San Francisco has lurched, derailed, cost billions, and may never happen.One private company is betting that it can succeed where the public sector is not. But that too has had its bumps. As US highspeed rail remains a mirage, a g ...

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