September 14, 2020 - TRA Newswire - The North Central Texas Council of Governments (NCTCOG) is seeking public opinion on high-speed transportation connections and where they should operate in the Dallas-Fort Worth region. High-speed service between Dallas and Fort Worth would potentially...

September 11, 2020 - TRA Newswire - According to the Rail Passengers Association, Amtrak’s response to COVID-19 will drop a $2 billion “bomb on Flyover Country.” Rail Passengers President and CEO Jim Mathews said Amtrak’s plan to reduce service on its long-distance...

September 11, 2020 - TRA Newswire - $20 billion is apparently too low a number. That's the amount that Global Infrastructure Partners and private-equity firm Blackstone Group apparently offered in a takeover bid for Kansas City Southern Railway (KCS). The private...

August 28, 2020 - TRA Newswire - With winds of 120 miles per hour Hurricane Laura left a trail of destruction through Southern Louisiana and parts of Southeast Texas yesterday, forcing rail rerouting and closures. Shippers were warned to expect some...

August 28, 2020 - TRA Newswire - A Texas short line railroad is one of the recipients of the American Short Line and Regional Railroad Association's (ASLRRA) 2020 President's Safety Award. Rio Valley Switching Company ("RVSC") is known in the region as...

Updated August 28, 2020 - TRA Newswire - Ridership on intercity long-distance services is edging back up despite the pandemic while at the same time Amtrak said it will cut back cross-country trains by some 60% in October Ridership numbers...

August 26, 2020 - TRA Opinion - Connections... Connections... Connections... Without any institutional knowledge left at Amtrak to schedule trains, no one apparently realizes that while Hurricane Laura heads north up the Mississippi Valley the sun is still shining on the Texas...

August 23, 2020 - RailwayAge.com - David Peter Alan - Beginning Oct. 1, Amtrak is reducing service on its entire long-distance (L-D) train network from daily to three departures per week, except for the two trains that already run only tri-weekly-only...

TRA Newswire - Texas has passed up its share of some $19 billion in federal rail funds over the past 10 years because the state does not have a matching partnership component. Those funds have gone to dozens of other...

August 4, 2020 - GlobeSt.com - On the heels of another speculative project underway in El Paso, VanTrust Real Estate LLC recently broke ground on a 1 million-square-foot speculative industrial building in southern Dallas. Located south of Interstate 20, DalParc Logistics...