In China, a new “sky train” system glides 33 feet above street level without using any electricity or fuel at all. The 2,600-foot-long, 88-passenger Red Rail in southern China’s Xingguo country is the ...

Maglev bullet trains promise a future where steel wheels and clattering rails give way to smooth, floating speed. Yet the reality on today’s tracks is more nuanced, with some systems gliding entirely ...

BALTIMORE (WJZ) — Maglev trains in Japan literally float on magnets at speeds over 300 miles per hour and they're still trying to get off the ground in the U.S. The hope is that they come sooner, ...

In this three week storyline unit, students investigate a maglev train and the electromagnetic forces that cause a maglev train to levitate and provide the source of propulsion for the train. The ...

China’s latest boundary-pushing train doesn’t need electricity to run. The country has just unveiled Red Rail, the world’s first suspended maglev train, reports the South China Morning Post. Unlike ...

The L0 Series train being developed by Japan currently is likely to reach speeds of up to 603.5kmh, making it the world’s ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. It’s not technically a train, but it is travelling on tracks. It’s not transporting anyone to any destination either, but it does ...

The Transrapid in Shanghai has set a new world for commercial railway systems of 501 kmh (311 mph). The maglev (magnetic levitation) train, which has no wheels, axels, engine or transmission, broke ...

What could be the future of high-speed travel between Baltimore, Washington and New York is already a reality in rural Japan. The magnetic levitation or “maglev” train outside Tokyo regularly hits 311 ...

Floating trains have glided closer to Europe after a pioneering trial of magnetic levitation — aka maglev. Italian firm IronLev, which developed the tech, claims to have completed the first-ever ...

At 603 km/h, the new maglev train sets a record and changes how distance is experienced. The remarkable part is not just that ...