Japan’s sleek Shinkansen bullet trains zoomed onto the railway scene in the 1960s, shrinking travel times and inspiring a global revolution in high-speed rail travel that continues to this day.

Right on schedule, the sleek white train with a blue streak and a bullet-shaped head pierced the late-morning mist and majestically cruised into the station. Gov. Greg Abbott and a delegation of Texas economic development leaders boarded car 11,

Union Railway Minister Ashwini Vaishnaw leads officials to Japan to resolve issues hindering India-Japan bullet train project.