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Texas Central CEO Carlos Aguilar steps down after 6 years
June 13th, 2022
Updated June 14, 2022 - TRA Newswire -Carlos Aguilar, the CEO and President of Texas Central Partners, announced he is resigning after being at the helm of the massive infrastructure railroad project for six years. He made the announcement public...
Union Pacific Railroad joins forces with RailPulse for real-time railcar tracking
June 7th, 2022
June 7, 2022 - TRA Newswire -Union Pacific Railroad has joined the RailPulse coalition and its effort to develop, broaden and accelerate the use of GPS and other telematics technologies in North America’s freight rail industry.Union Pacific is RailPulse’s seventh member....
TxDOT says it is interested in infrastructure grants for rail projects
June 4th, 2022
June 4, 2022 - TRA Newswire -There is actual interest in pursuing grants for state rail projects at the Texas Department of Transportation, an agency not noted for putting out news releases on rail efforts and that has been hesitant...
Texas gets a sliver of $386 million in CRISI rail grant funds: Harlingen project
June 2nd, 2022
June 2, 2022 - TRA Newswire-In another weak showing, Texas will only get 0.02% of over $368 million that the Federal Railroad Administration has announced in railroad grants under the Consolidated Rail Infrastructure and Safety Improvements (CRISI) program this week....
‘Texas Eagle’ show Amtrak failure to capitalize on advantages of rail travel: Special report
June 2nd, 2022
June 1, 2022-trains.com-Grass-roots organization seeks to restore Sightseer Lounge, other amenities cut by management."There is no Sightseer Lounge on this train. Once again, there is no Sightseer Lounge on this train,” emphasized the public-address announcement. “You must buy food to...
3 rural Texas Congressmen continue their fight to kill high-speed rail, and a rebuttal
May 31st, 2022
May 31, 2022 - TRA Newswire -Three Texas Congressmen, representing mostly rural counties, have piled on with a letter to the Supreme Court of Texas in their attempt to derail a private company from building a high-speed rail line between...
Henderson freight rail line increasing economic opportunity in Rusk County
May 31st, 2022
May 26, 2022 - kltv.com -A project over a decade in the making is increasing economic opportunity in Henderson and the county of Rusk as a whole.According to John Cloutier, President of the Rusk County Rural Rail District, the county...
Trinity Industries, Inc. announces the acquisition of Quasar Platform
May 31st, 2022
May 31, 2022 - TRA Newswire -Dallas-based Trinity Industries, Inc. (NYSE:TRN) ("Trinity") today announced the acquisition of Quasar Platform Inc. ("Quasar") from Cando Rail. Quasar is an end-to-end rail logistics software platform providing a real-time data universe to freight rail...
Connection with Texas: Why it will take time to build a passenger rail network in Mexico
May 31st, 2022
June 1, 2022 - bnamericas.com -President Andrés Manuel López Obrador promised to revamp passenger train services in Mexico, which will create several challenges for the infrastructure, communications and transportation ministry (SICT).BNamericas spoke with the ministry's rail and multimodal development chief,...
FRA issues first quarterly report on Texas Passenger Rail performance
May 18th, 2022
May 18, 2022 - TRA Newswire -The Federal Railroad Administration's first quarterly report on intercity passenger rail performance and service quality is out and for the three Texas services run by Amtrak it's a mixed bag.The period covered is from...