October 23, 2015 - NewsOK ERICK — Residents in this town were treated to a rare sight Friday as the first passenger train in 48 years to pull into its downtown arrived to mark the opening of new service by Farmrail that...

October 28, 2015 - TRA Newswire Congress OK's PTC implementation to 2018 with, maybe, a 24 month extension. As  H.R.38​19 - Surface Transportation Extension Act of 2015​​  is signed into law, it will extend the deadline for America's railroads to fully implement PTC by...

Sure it's for roads, but there's a small asterisk. We need good roads to get us to future freight and passenger rail projects that the state legislature has been ignoring for years. One step at a time. If voters give Texas...

Mitchell Schnurman - Dallas Morning News - October 20 2015 $130M worth of high-speed rail design work will be done at selected firms' risk Who’s gonna stop progress in its tracks, especially when it’s counted in the billions of dollars? Texas is supposed...

(TRA Note: Dallas Morning News readers respond to possible train service cuts if Congress does not approve an extension of mandated Positive Train Control (PTC) legislation that most all railroads will not be able to have in place by December...

October 23, 2015  FORT WORTH, Texas--(BUSINESS WIRE)--BNSF Railway Company (BNSF) announced Austin Western Railroad (AWRR) as its 2015 Shortline Railroad of the Year during BNSF’s annual Shortline Conference in Fort Worth, Texas. AWRR, which is operated by Watco Companies of Pittsburg,...

October 24, 2015 - DARTMedia Transit advocates and urban planners are converging on North Texas to see how new communities are being built around transit oriented developments along DART's 90 mile light rail line and transit facilities in Ft. Worth and...

October 23, 2015  (Tulsa) - The head of Tulsa’s passenger rail task force says the city is ready to take the last step toward having service into downtown. Former city councilor Rick Westcott said Iowa Pacific needs the state’s designation as the...

Streetsblog - October 20, 2015 - by Angie Schmitt When Texas voters go to the polls this November they will decide an issue of enormous consequence to the future of the state. Adding more lanes isn’t going to fix Texas’s transportation problems. Photo:...

October 20, 2015 - Dallas  - (TRA Newswire) Design-build development partnership announced Two world-class design-build firms to provide work valued at $130 million for Texas’ high-speed rail project Backers say commitment shows strong international interest Project reaches 50% milestone in development capital A private group...