A proposed high-speed passenger train between Las Vegas and Southern California has gotten another boost.

The National Transportation Safety Board said Saturday it will investigate two crashes involving Florida’s Brightline train that killed three people at the same railroad crossing on the high-speed train’s route between Miami and Orlando.

The Biden administration said it will give more than $6 billion to a pair of high-speed electric rail routes in the West.

Florida's high-speed passenger train service has suffered its first fatality on its new extension to Orlando.

A privately owned high-speed passenger train service has been launched between Florida’s two biggest tourist hubs.

For the first time in a century, a private passenger rail service will launch new operations in the U.S. and this time it involves high-speed trains.

For the first time in a century, a private passenger rail service will launch new operations in the U.S. and this time it involves high-speed trains.

Universal Orlando Resort has filed paperwork and pledged 13 acres for a commuter rail station that could link the seventh busiest airport in the U.S. with the heart of the tourism district in one of the top travel destinations in the world.

This is the vision: At the western end of downtown Miami, a dense, walkable, transit-centered and family-friendly high-rise district would bloom over eight city blocks.

Officials say a Brightline commuter train hit a car carrying a woman and her grandchild on the higher-speed line’s first day back in operation since the coronavirus pandemic began.

ORLANDO, Fla. – Brightline and Walt Disney World Resort have reached an agreement to build a train station at Disney Springs, officials said Monday. Brightline is already building tracks from South Florida to Orlando International Airport, and planning to extend service to Tampa. The South Florida to Orlando extension is scheduled to begin service in 2022, the company has said. “Our mission has always been to connect our guests to the people and places that matter, and Walt Disney World Resort is a tremendous example of this,” Goddard said in the statement. Disney Springs is near a major network of roads, including Interstate 4.

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. – Rail crossings throughout Florida, including one west of Jupiter where three members of a family were recently killed by an Amtrak train, will be upgraded for safety under a directive issued by the state transportation secretary. Department of Transportation Secretary Kevin Thibault on Thursday ordered “unprecedented” rail safety measures for more than 4,000 crossings, with an expected cost of almost $60 million to complete by March 2022. “One fatality on our rail crossings is one too many, and I am committed to doing everything I can as secretary to prevent additional tragedies from occurring across our state,” Thibault said. But Sen. Debbie Mayfield, a Rockledge Republican who has fought plans to extend the Brightline passenger-rail service north from South Florida, said more safety measures are needed. In addition to the Amtrak crash, an Associated Press report recently said the Brightline rail service, which is being rebranded Virgin Trains USA, had the worst per-mile death rate of the nation’s 821 railroads.