JetTrain: The high-speed dream that never took off

In the early-2000s, transport manufacturer Bombardier developed an experimental high-speed passenger train concept that promised to bring European-style rail services to Canada and the US. Here's why it failed.

(CNN) — It may have some of the world's longest railroads, covering vast distances across its wide-open provinces, but one thing Canada doesn't have is high-speed trains. Of all the economically powerful countries which make up the G7 -- the United Kingdom, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, the United States and the EU -- Canada is the only one with nothing swift coming down the tracks. It has come close though, with a creation that would've not only put it on the high speed rail map, but could also have radically shaken up the global rail industry: JetTrain.