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Last DART Rail Diesel Car joins museum collection in Frisco

January 7th, 2024
January 7, 2024 - TRA Newswire - The one remaining rail diesel car (RDC) that Dallas Area Rapid Transit (DART) held on to for years has found a new home at the Museum of the American Railroad in Frisco, Texas.According to...

Texas bullet train with Japan tech aims for revival with federal grant

January 6th, 2024
January 6, 2024 - asia.nikkei.com -The U.S. federal government has awarded a planning grant to a proposed high-speed rail line in Texas to be built with technology from Japan's shinkansen bullet trains, for a project that has faced delays and ballooning costs.The proposed...

Billion dollar transit oriented development planned in heart of DFW metroplex

January 6th, 2024
January 5, 2024 - wfaa.com - An apartment building is going vertical near the DART / DCTA Trinity Mills Station in Carrollton as part of a $1 billion project that aims to catalyze development and improve connectivity in an increasingly urban...

Dallas Congresswoman and icon Eddie Bernice Johnson passes away at 89

January 1st, 2024
January 1, 2024 - TRA Newswire - She was a trailblazer. A nurse before she entered politics, Eddie Bernice Johnson defined many of the transportation choices that North Texas enjoy today by wielding the federal purse-strings for DART, DFW Airport and...

Amtrak finally issues RFP for new long-distance fleet

December 27th, 2023
December 27, 2023 - TRA Newswire -Naysayers that thought Amtrak was slowly trying to kill off its national network overnight trains should now be pleased that the company has issued a formal Request for Proposals (RFP) to railcar manufacturers to...

Mexico's President inaugurates passenger & freight rail service from Pacific Ocean to Gulf of Mexico

December 25th, 2023
December 25, 2023 - TRA Newswire -Friday marked the start of service between Salina Cruz, Oaxaca on the west coast of Mexico and Coatzacoalcos, Veracruz on the gulf side for both passenger and freight rail service when Presidenr Lopez Obrador...

Texas rail border crossings at Eagle Pass and El Paso reopen today

December 22nd, 2023
December 22, 2023 - TRA Newswire -International rail gateways at Eagle Pass and El Paso, on the Texas-Mexican border, have reopened to commerce today, according to Customs and Border Patrol's Office of Field Operations. The two major rail gateways were...

The hype for hyperloop is over, HyperLoop One to shut down its project

December 22nd, 2023
December 22, 2023 - TRA Newswire -The North Central Texas Council of Governments announced on Twitter in early 2022 "A hyperloop connection between Dallas & Fort Worth is no longer considered an option...".  The regional agency announced they will focus "solely...

North Texas Transpo Council approves $1.1 million for ongoing Fort Worth-Dallas HSR connection

December 22nd, 2023
December 22, 2023 - TRA Newswire -"The Connector" has gotten a boost from the North Central Texas Council of Government's Regional Transportation Council (RTC) with a $1.1 million allocation to scope out and make adjustments to current plans for a...

CBP shuts down TX-MEX rail border crossings at El Paso and Eagle Pass, trains backed up

December 18th, 2023
December 19, 2023 - TRA Newswire -This morning, U.S. Customs and Border Patrol (CBP) took the unprecedented step of closing the international rail crossings in El Paso and Eagle Pass, TX. These crossings comprise two of the seven active rail crossings...

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