For Baltic High-Speed Rail Line, Borders Raise Hurdles

TALLINN, Estonia—A high-speed rail project linking the three Baltic states embodies the economic hopes the European Union has placed on the fast-train technology. It also exemplifies one of high-speed’s biggest hurdles: national borders.
Unlike the U.S., where politics and costs have been a drag on high-speed rail, Western Europe already has an extensive network that began with the launch of France’s Train à Grande Vitesse, or TGV, in 1981. But a new EU push aims to expand it across multiple countries, upgrading more…

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