August 4, 2025 - TRA Newswire - The announcement that Union Pacific will purchase east-coast Class 1 Norfolk Southern for $85 billion and create the first U.S. transcontinental railroad has large intermodal shippers in Texas and nationwide rethinking who their carrier...

August 4, 2025 - T4america.org - $66 billion was dedicated to rail in the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act (IIJA), but this historic amount was directed into a federal structure that has repeatedly failed to efficiently manage passenger rail projects, including...

August 1, 2025 - TRA Newswire - The North Central Texas Council of Governments (NCTCOG) invites the public to provide input on recently proposed initiatives, including funding to continue Amtrak service between Fort Worth and Oklahoma City and expansion plans for the...

July 31, 2025 - TRA Austin - At the July meeting of the Texas Transportation Commission today, it was announced that Texas Department of Transportation   Rail Division Director Jeffrey "Jeff" Davis has been promoted to Chief Administrative Officer at the agency....

July 26, 2025 -TRA Newswire -In a post on X, KUT-FM Transportation Reporter Nathan Bernier described how recent flooding in the Hill Country of Texas has closed down a freight rail link along part of a 162-mile corridor through the...

July 19, 2025 - Tahlequah Oklahoma Daily Press - Reprinted with authorization -State-level politicians grow increasingly incompetent, stingy and cruel in many parts of the country, and the Texas Legislature – whose members meet only every other year and undoubtedly...

July 22, 2025 - TRA Newswire -The Texas North Western Railway Company (TXNW) has completed significant infrastructure improvements in the Texas panhandle town of Etter, with a 50/50 cost sharing federal program that will improve rail safety, while reducing rail...

July 22, 2025 - Dallasnews.com -John Kleinheinz is the chief executive of Kleinheinz Capital Partners, the leading investor of Texas Central, the company behind the Dallas-Houston high-speed rail project.In an Op-Ed published in the Dallas Morning News, Kleinheinz said:If you...

July 22, 2025 - TRA Commentary -Except for some consolidation in the short line railroad arena and Canadian Pacific Railway-Kansas City Southern morphing into CPKC in April 2023, merger talks between Class 1's had been deathly silent. Until recently, that is.Last...

July 21, 2025 - TRA Newswire -Getting a head start on the 2027 Texas legislative session, leaders of grass-roots and non-profit organizations met in Houston earlier this month and have set their sights on making a statewide Intercity Passenger Rail...