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 13, 2020 - TRA Newswire - Amtrak finally released their reduced 3-times-a-week schedule for the long haul trains. The schedule takes effect in less than 60 days on October 1. The Texas Eagle will be one of the biggest casualties...

August 3, 2020 - Trains Magazine - Bob Johnston - Deja vu: Amtrak service to be cut from daily to 3x weekly October 1 1995 plan that cut trains to "save money" didn't work Expected "savings" did not offset costs Any...

May 1, 2020 - I’m aboard Amtrak’s Texas Eagle, train #21, en-route to Fort Worth, Texas today and it’s eerily quiet onboard. Life on Amtrak’s national rail system in these days of COVID-19 reminds me of a tune rolling around in my...

July 21, 2019 - myleaderpaper.com - A proposed Amtrak stop could be the start of bigger things in De Soto. That’s the message from a group called Fast Track De Soto, which envisions a new rail platform in De Soto to accommodate...

June 3, 2019 - ProgressiveRailroading.com - Severe weather, heavy rain and historic flooding conditions continue to affect freight and passenger railroads' operations in parts of the U.S. South, Central Plains and Midwest regions. Amtrak announced late last week that it has cancelled its...

August 27, 2018 - TRA Newswire / TRAINS Magaine - In a stunning announcement from Amtrak Senior Vice President and Chief Commercial Officer Stephen Gardner to officials in towns along the Southwest Chief route,  he indicated that the passenger railroad will...

November 12, 2017 - Longview News-Journal - The nation's passenger rail system and the Texas Eagle train that stops in Longview appear to be safe from federal budget cuts for now, but rail advocates say train travel needs more than status...

July 7, 2017 - Fort Worth Star-Telegram - Gordon Dickson - Amtrak’s incoming boss has Texas ties, but can he save long-distance passenger rail service in the state? Richard Anderson, 62, a veteran airline executive who most recently ran Delta Air Lines,...

May 16, 2017 - TRA Newswire - It's been over half a century since a regularly scheduled passenger train passed through Tyler, Texas but that is about to change, at least for about a month. Due to extensive track work on the...