The railroad provided relatively cheap, and certainly fast, transportation across the nation, it connected farmers, ranchers, and industrialists to a large national market, and “shrunk” the ...

City tightens restrictions on proposed bullet train, while backing federal study grant as Congress withdraws funding.

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The decades-old idea of connecting Texas’ biggest cities with high-speed rail is fundamentally a good one. But any rail project that’s going to cut through Dallas needs to make sense for our city’s ...