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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
In his continuing series on Texas Central, Railway Age Contributing Editor David Peter Alan reports on the high-speed rail project Texans want to see built between Dallas and Houston, but has been stymied by four C's: Courts, Covid, Crafty Politicians...
March 21, 2023 - TRA Newswire - A billion dollars today doesn't buy you as much as two years ago. That's why Austin Transit Partnership (ATP) unveiled five options for the public today at a Austin Public Library open house for...
March 15, 2023 - TRA Austin -Now there are two rail-centric riders up for consideration by the Texas House Appropriations Committee. The most recent rider to the budget process was filed by Representative David Spiller (R-Jacksboro). If approved and funded,...
March 15, 2023 - ProgressiveRailroading.com - The Surface Transportation Board today announced it has approved the merger of Canadian Pacific and Kansas City Southern with several conditions.The combined entity of the two smallest Class Is will be known as Canadian Pacific Kansas City (CPKC) and will be...
March 14, 2023 - TRA Newswire -Dallas-based Trinity Industries has acquired RSI Logistics in a $70 million purchase that gives the company a strong position in software and logistic movements in the North American rail industry.Jean Savage, President and CEO...