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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...

Texas Rail Advocates want state to fight for federal rail grants

May 18th, 2022
May 16, 2022 - FreightWaves.com -"We have a once-in-a-generation opportunity to seize the day"Texas short-line operators are urging the state to pursue federal funds that would help finance rail projects in the state.They're highlighting federal grants available from the Federal...

Software hiccups: Rail freight to Mexico is embargoed at the Texas border

May 11th, 2022
May 11, 2022 - TRA Newswire -It's not bad enough that supply chain issues rippling through the economy have played havoc with rail shipments through Texas and the rest of the nation. Now you can add a computer glitch that...

Third time a charm: Leander to stay in CapMetro rail world

May 10th, 2022
May 10, 2022 - TRA Newswire - Rail opponents tried and failed for the third time since 1985 to take Austin's sub-urban city of Leadner out of the regional rail service business.This past weekend Leander voters chose to stay as...

TNW's Treangen asks Texas lawmakers to consider short-line investment

May 10th, 2022
May 10, 2022 - TRA Newswire -TNW Corporation CEO Paul Treangen, President of the Texas Short Line and Regional Railroad Association, testified on April 26th before the Texas House of Representatives' Transportation Committee on the role of short lines in...

Will Texas miss out on it's share of $66 billion in federal rail funds?

May 8th, 2022
May 8, 2022 - TRA Newswire -The Federal Railroad Administration (FRA) is expected to announce, this month, the procedures for filing for Infrastructure Law rail grant programs. $66 billion in advanced appropriations are to be available for passenger and freight...

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