May 15, 2019 - GoRail.org - After 350+ meetings with members of Congress, another productive Railroad Day on Capitol Hill is in the books. The day convenes folks from all sectors of the freight rail industry, from Class I and short line railroads...

May 18, 2019 - TRA Austin - Week 18 in the Texas legislature and you never know when something bad can still  rear it's head. After it was approved in the Senate, SB 421 is winding its way through the House and...

May 17,  2019 - TRA Newswire - Union Pacific has implemented Positive Train Control (PTC) on 582 route miles, bringing required PTC-operated route miles to 13,597 or 80 percent. PTC was implemented on all required passenger routes in 2018. Implementation efforts continue to...

May 17, 2019 - Opinion - Jim Mathews, Rail Passengers Association - The May 4 Washington Post editorial “A road to salvation?,” attacking America’s long-distance train service, trotted out the same tired talking points about profits and losses that anti-rail interests...

May 16, 2019 - freightwaves.com - Rail congestion in regions such as Chicago and Houston may have eased for now, but the railroads will still need to find ways to increase capacity at those busy city locations as the U.S. population...

May 16, 2019 - TRA Newswire  - RCR Hempstead Logistics Park is now under development in Hempstead, Waller County, and plans are to serve "national- and international-grade manifest and transload firms desiring to locate in the Northwest quadrant of Houston with...

May 16, 2019 - TRA Newswire - More than 6 million passengers are expected to use the train annually by 2029, more than 13 million passengers expected by 2050 Train will save 60 to 90 minutes per trip between Houston and...

May 16, 2019 - ttnews.com - The leaders of the transportation policy panel of the U.S. House of Representatives expressed concern about possible unfair trade practices in the freight rail and transit sectors. The concerns stem from market practices state-owned enterprises have...

May 13, 2019 - Politico.com - THE FAST TRACK: Politico Morning Transportation report recently sat down with Carlos Aguilar, the CEO of Texas Central Railway, which is trying to build a high-speed rail line between Dallas and Houston, to talk about the...

May 14, 2019 - KBTX.com - Bryan and College Station are becoming bigger and bigger, attracting more and more people, not to mention industry. The Chamber of Commerce delegates this week are concerned that B/CS, as a locale, isn’t accessible enough. That’s...