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20 years after saving the Texas Eagle: celebration but not quitting yet

September 10th, 2017
September 10, 2017 - TRA Newswire - Back in 1997 Amtrak's Texas Eagle tri-weekly train was written off as part of a cost-cutting effort by the passenger rail service. The train schedule for the San Antonio to Chicago service was deleted...

Tracks open! Amtrak's Sunset Limited restarts service after Harvey's Gulf Coast flooding

September 8th, 2017
September 8, 2017 - TRA Newswire - Amtrak's Sunset Limited service through Houston and Beaumont, a casualty of Hurricane Harvey's catastrophic flooding, restarts service next week. The tri-weekly passenger train service runs on two host railroads, Union Pacific and BNSF Railway. Tracks...

Study looks at Atlanta-Dallas-Ft. Worth rail route through Meridian MS

September 6th, 2017
September 5, 2017 - MeridianStar.com - Meridian could benefit one day from a long-time desire, now under study, to re-establish a passenger train route from Ft. Worth, Texas, to Atlanta. The plan is a priority of the Texas-based I-20 Corridor Council. The missing...

Rail traffic begins slow return to Houston & Texas Gulf Coast after Harvey

September 1st, 2017
September 1, 2017 - TRA Newswire - Around the edges rail traffic is starting to inch back after Hurricane/Tropical Storm Harvey devastated Houston and the Gulf Coast of Texas. Union Pacific Railroad reports that freight rail service in the Houston area is...

Catastrophic flooding brings Texas Gulf Coast railroads to standstill

August 28th, 2017
UPDATED August 30, 2017 - TRA Newswire - Massive flooding caused by Hurricane / Tropical Storm Harvey has wreaked havoc with all modes of transportation, especially railroads, along the Texas Gulf Coast and around Houston.  All three Class I railroads that serve...

Amtrak honors two Texans: RIchard & Christina Anderson as "Champions"

August 4th, 2017
August 4, 2017 - TRA Newswire - Amtrak President and CEO Wick Moorman has named Richard & Christina Anderson of Marshall Texas as Amtrak Champions during the annual President's Safety and Service Awards program. Every year the national network passenger rail...

Report to Congress recommends Gulf Coast Amtrak service

July 21st, 2017
July 19, 2017 - wtxl.com - A federal panel submitted a report to Congress this week recommending passenger rail service return to the Gulf Coast. The Big Bend has been without it for more than a decade. The Gulf Coast Working Group...

TX: New Amtrak CEO has Texas ties, but can he save State's Texas Eagle route?

July 9th, 2017
July 7, 2017 - Fort Worth Star-Telegram - Gordon Dickson - Amtrak’s incoming boss has Texas ties, but can he save long-distance passenger rail service in the state? Richard Anderson, 62, a veteran airline executive who most recently ran Delta Air Lines,...

Guest column: Another Amtrak CEO…and flyover country

July 4th, 2017
July 4, 2017 - Commentary by Russ Jackson -  Commerce, Oklahoma (not California) is a small town in the northeast corner of Oklahoma near the Kansas border, population 2,400 hardy souls.  This town sits astride the original Route 66 highway, several...

Native Texan & aviation veteran named new Amtrak CEO

June 26th, 2017
June 26, 2017 - TRA Newswire - WASHINGTON – Amtrak announced that it has named Richard Anderson, a 25-year veteran of the aviation industry and Galveston native, as its next president and chief executive officer. Anderson, former chief executive officer of...

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