In 2023, the Biden Administration awarded California $3.1 billion in federal funds toward the high-speed rail project, which aimed to connect California, Los Angeles, and the Central Valley with 220-mile-per-hour, fully electrified trains, the California High-Speed Rail Authority announced at the time.

It will include 552 acres of solar panels generating 44 megawatts of electricity — enough for a city of 33,000 people — and batteries to store 62 megawatt hours of power.

All aboard. California's transportation landscape is getting a major upgrade as Caltrain, the oldest continuously operated railroad in the West, ushers in a new age of electric trains. This isn't ...

But like bullet trains in Europe and Asia, California’s need generous federal funding — lots of it. Several years ago, the feds gave California $3.5 billion for the project. That’s long gone.

It’s all about scale at the California State Railroad Museum.“I think we have a lot of think going for us. It's big trains — something about the scale of coming into a 225,000 square-foot ...