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Railroader and advocate Garl Latham passed away
April 17th, 2023
April 17, 2023 - TRA Newswire -Gary Boyd Latham, a career Texas railroader with over 40 years professional experience in both freight and passenger operations, passed away last week.Garl was the owner of Latham Railway Services, a Texas-based planning and consulting...
The marriage is final: Texas has a new named railroad today
April 14th, 2023
April 14, 2023 - TRA Newswire -Today marks the start of a new partnership between Canadian Pacific (CP) and Kansas City Southern (KCS), now to be known as CPKC throughout Texas and the rest of North America. The merger of...
TxDOT Rail Division announces initiatives to move goods and people, help economic development
April 13th, 2023
April 13, 2023 - TRA Newswire -The Rail Division at the Texas Department of Transportation has some initiatives underway to improve the flow of goods and people through rail improvements and to show how rail benefits economic development."We've really done...
Video presentations from Southwestern Rail Conference have been posted
April 12th, 2023
April 12, 2023 - TRA Newswire -There's a wealth of information on the future of freight and passenger rail in Texas and it's now available to view from presentations at the 19th Annual Southwestern Rail Conference, hosted by Texas Rail...
Hopes dim for passenger rail linking Parker and Palo Pinto counties to Fort Worth
April 11th, 2023
April 11, 2023 - WeatherfordDemocrat.com - Parker County residents have commuted west to Metroplex jobs for decades, with Palo Pinto County denizens more recently joining that commute as Metroplex migrants move west.Maybe it would be nice for them to take the...
Oklahoma officials want to expand Heartland Flyer into Kansas, connect to east-west trains
April 11th, 2023
April 9, 2023 - JoplinGlobe.com - Oklahoma officials are partnering with their Kansas counterparts in a bipartisan push to expand Oklahoma’s existing passenger rail line into Kansas, giving both states’ residents easier access to major east-west trains.The two states have made...
Editorial: El Paso City Council - run your damn streetcars or give the money back to TxDOT
April 10th, 2023
April 10, 2023 - TRA Editorial - We look in disbelief how El Paso has taken a prize trophy like their art-deco streetcars that ran on a regular schedule when the line first operated, and now which some on the city...
HART to transform how Houston area deals with trains and traffic
April 9th, 2023
April 9, 2023 - TRA Newswire -It's called HART and that stands for Houston Area Rail Transformation. It's a way that various agencies are going to be able to collaborate with each other and make it easier for motorists to...
TxDOT submits 3 applications for Corridor Identification Program, the "Texas Triangle"
April 6th, 2023
April 6, 2023 - TRA Newswire -The Texas Department of Transportation submitted three applications for advancing passenger rail corridors in the state to the Federal Railroad Administration (FRA).The announcement was made at the 19th Annual Southwestern Rail Conference this week at...
Back in the courtroom again? Landowners want to know about Texas Central high-speed rail project on April 7
April 2nd, 2023
Updated April 7, 2023 - TRA Newswire - Update: Beckham Portela Trial Law, the Dallas-based attorneys representing a property owner in Calvin House vs.Texas Central Railroad cancelled Friday's court hearing within hours of their appearance. TRA understands it was due to the sole...