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Amtrak Texas Eagle service to be interrupted for necessary UP track work during 8-day periods this spring

March 15th, 2025
March 15, 2025 - TRA Newswire -Springtime always brings out the track crews for necessary repairs and infrastructure upgrades and 2025 will have Union Pacific maintenance-of-way gangs hard at work between Marshall in East Texas and the Dallas-Fort Worth area. If...

New presentations at Southwestern Rail Conference: Amtrak, Association of American Railroads, Surface Transportation Board

March 14th, 2025
March 14, 2025 - TRA Newswire -Early registration for the 21st Annual Southwestern Rail Conference at the Hurst Texas Conference Center ends March 22nd so you only have a few days to take advance of a discounted rate.The only all-rail...

Firm start date for New Orleans-Mobile passenger rail to be announced soon

March 14th, 2025
March 14 2025 - TRA Newswire -You'll be able to buy tickets soon for the start of passenger rail service along the Gulf Coast from New Orleans to Mobile, Alabama. During the quarterly meeting of the Southern Rail Commission (SRC),...

Road/Rail Grade Separation Grant Program passes Texas Senate Transpo Committee

March 12th, 2025
Marfch 12, 2025 - TRA Austin -A state program that would allow the Texas Department of Transportation to issue grants for separating roadways from railroads at crossings passed the Senate Transportation Committee on a 9-0 vote and now heads for...

Twelfth of a Series: Amtrak-Sponsored Texas HSR Takes a Step Closer – But to What?

March 11th, 2025
March 10, 2025 - RailwayAge.com, David Peter Alan -The big buzz and bigger controversy around Texas during the past several years has been a proposal by a company called Texas Central to build and operate a high-speed rail line between...

Patriot Rail to establish Denton Texas transload facility on CPKC network

March 11th, 2025
March 11, 2025 - TRA  Newswire -Patriot Rail Company, U.S. operator of short line and regional freight railroads, transloading and other rail services, announces a new multi-commodity transload facility on Canadian Pacific Kansas City's (CPKC) network in Denton, Texas. The facility will...

UP to close Palestine East Texas shops, county continues to fight it

March 11th, 2025
March 11, 2025 - Trains.com -Union Pacific on Monday notified employees at its Palestine, Texas, car shop that their current jobs would be eliminated following the latest ruling in a long-running court battle over an agreement dating to 1872.The Dallas Morning...

More rail bills filed in Texas legislature: the good and the bad

March 9th, 2025
March 9, 2025 - TRA Austin -We're catching up on some rail bills that have been filed over the last week, some that we favor and one that we do not.  All of the current session bills we track can...

Quarry company to revive, expand 27 mile long Central Texas rail line through Burnet County

March 6th, 2025
March 6, 2025 - TRA Newswire -Texas Materials Group is proposing a 27 mile long rail line in Burnet county to transport aggregate between quarries and has petitioned the Surface Transportation Board (STB) for permission to proceed. The proposal would revive...

Fort Worth proposes urban rail system emanating from downtown

March 5th, 2025
March 4, 2025 - ForrWorthReport.org, Eric E. Garcia  -An urban rail system that emanates from downtown Fort Worth and extends to the city’s rapidly growing areas to the north, south and west is among the sweeping transit recommendations a committee...

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