November 15, 2018 - pnj.com -
Railroad giant CSX plans to sell 373 miles of track between Pensacola and Jacksonville to Florida Gulf and Atlantic Railroad, a subsidiary of Boca Raton-based Rail USA.
The deal was made public as part of a filing with...
September 18, 2018 - Exclusive to TRA -
In a letter to Amtrak President Richard Anderson, the Mayor of Houston said he supports increased service of the now tri-weekly Sunset Limited train that stops in the city.
Mayor Sylvester Turner indicated he...
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...
September 22, 2016 - ProgressiveRailroading.com
Amtrak is permitting riders to bring bicycles on trains along several additional national routes, the passenger railroad announced yesterday.
The railroad's train-side check-in bicycle service has been expanded to the following routes: Cardinal, Sunset Limited, California Zephyr,...
December 19, 2015 - Commentary by Russ Jackson / RailPAC
Here we are, Christmastime 2015, and lo and behold the Amtrak long distance trains continue to roll and to some extent thrive despite the negative publicity that they are "money losers." ...
WASHINGTON – Special to TRA - September 17, 2015
U.S. Senator Roger Wicker, R-Miss., a member of the Senate Commerce, Science, and Transportation Committee, today questioned Acting Administrator of the Federal Railroad Administration (FRA), Sarah Feinberg, about the agency’s efforts to...
