December 24, 2025 - TRA Newswire - Built in 1930 in the renaissance style, the historic Union Train Station that straddles two cities in two states has fallen into disrepair and has been a stagnant blight in downtown Texarkana, Texas and...

December 8, 2025 - TRA Newswire -Amtrak Mardi Gras ServiceSM is concluding its inaugural quarter as one of the most successful service launches in Amtrak’s history. Since debuting in August, the route has exceeded expectations across every major performance metric, demonstrating...

November 28, 2025 - KLTV.com - And one of them lives right here in East Texas—with no plans of slowing down.For the past 17 years, Martha Ann has worked right over at the Mineola Train Depot. At 92 years old, she...

November 20, 2025 - Bloomberg.com, Benton Graham -The reporter's journey says a lot about the state of passenger rail in many parts of the US, where decades of service cuts have derailed the network’s efficiency — and where efforts to...

November 24, 2025 - TRA Newswire - Ridership increased aboard Amtrak's three Texas train routes in 2025, even as capacity constraints resulted in fewer available coaches and sleepers for part of the year. The daily Texas Eagle, tri-weekly Sunset Limited and the...

October 8, 2025 - TRA Newswire -The new Amtrak Mardi Gras trains running between New Orleans and Mobile, Alabama have carried well over 15,000 riders after five weeks of service along Gulf Coast cities in Louisiana, Mississippi and Alabama. Those...

October 6, 2025 - San Antonio Express-News, Richard Webner, Transportation Writer -During a presentation over the weekend, Caroline Mays, a senior director at the Texas Department of Transportation, displayed three maps not of the state's highways - the agency's usual...

September 21, 2025 - TRA Newswire -States and rail entities will soon be scrambling to apply for over $5 billion that the Federal Railroad Administration just announced will be designated for intercity passenger rail projects, including safer at-grade rail crossings. In...

August 28, 2025 - TRA Newswire -Today marks the start of brand-new NextGen Acela high-speed trains along the East Coast, the fastest in the country. Alstom USA and Amtrak are ushering in a new era of rail travel on the Northeast...

August 25, 2025 - TRA Newswire -A new economic-impact report to Congress makes a clear case that state-supported Amtrak services, like the Texas and Oklahoma-partnered Heartland Flyer, are engines of local and regional prosperity.The study, prepared by SAIPRC, the State-Amtrak Intercity...