Dallas Morning Herald: A ride on a bullet train between cities in Europe or Japan is smooth, quiet and very fast.
In other words, it's nothing like launching high-speed passenger rail in the U.S.
High-speed rail's trip through American politics has been bumpy. Hometown feuds, lawsuits and arguments bog it down, most recently in California.
In Texas, the dream of gliding between Dallas and Houston at 200-plus mph is decades old. But in 2014, Dallas to Houston still is by car or bus -- or by air with all its bothers....