February 4, 2022 - TRA Newswire - Union Pacific Railroad has again been named to Fortune magazine's World's Most Admired Companies list and is the highest ranked railroad in the Trucking, Transportation and Logistics category. The magazine's annual World's Most Admired list will...

January 31, 2022 - David Peter Alan, Contributing Editor, Railway Age - For a short time, it looked like the end of the line for James Frederick Miles and his supporters. Miles is the landowner from a rural county between Dallas...

January 30, 2022 - TRA Newswire - The Wabtec plant at Fort Worth is about to get a lot busier as Union Pacific Railroad announces the purchase of 10 FLXdrive battery-electric locomotives for use in its freight rail yards. The order...

January 23, 2022 - Russell Jackson, Contributor - The Texas Eagle is buried in the secondary of the hierarchy of the endangered species of passenger transportation, Amtrak’s long distance trains. For decades the Eagle has run daily between Chicago and San Antonio, then on three...

January 24, 2022 - David Peter Alan, Contributing Editor, Railway Age  - A landowner in rural Texas is locked in a legal battle with the companies that are planning to build the Texas Central high-speed rail (HSR) project, which would establish...

January 23, 2022 - TRA Newswire - Union Pacific Railroad announced it will be the primary intermodal rail transportation provider in the western U.S. for Schneider effective January 2023. The new partnership results from Schneider exiting their business with BNSF Railway....

January 21, 2022 - TRA Newswire - Forget about Infrastructure Week. 2022 is shaping up to be Infrastructure Year. With less than 70 days to go before the 18th Annual Southwestern Rail Conference, the buzz about the Infrastructure Act has everyone wondering...

January 20, 2022 - TRA Newswire - Three Texas transit agencies have been awarded grants totaling almost $2 million in a pilot program for planning transit oriented development (TOD) around rail stations. CapMetro in Austin, Trinity Metro in Fort Worth and Dallas...

January 20, 2022 - TRA Newswire - Union Pacific reported its 4th quarter and 2021 results today with what was described as a banner year for the railroad, despite supply chain problems, wildfires, virus challenges and extreme weather events. “The Union Pacific...

January 20, 2022 - TRA Austin - Capitol Metro broke ground this week for the new Broadmoor Station, to be located inside the future 66-acre Uptown ATX development in North Austin. The $3 billion dollar mixed-use development is near The Domain. The...