April 15, 2025 - TRA Newswire -Yesterday, U.S. Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy announced that Amtrak will no longer head up the Dallas-Houston high-speed rail project and will step aside so better equipped private sector interests can move the plan forward....

April 14, 2025 - TRA Newswire -Within a matter of hours, two breaking issues on the effort to bring high-speed rail to Texas. The next several days may tell us who is in charge of the Texas bullet train project...

March 19, 2025 - TRA Newswire -Stephen Gardner, CEO of Amtrak, announced that he was stepping down from the leadership role of the passenger rail carrier, effective immediately. Garden had held that role after more than four years at the helm...

March 15, 2025 - TRA Newswire -Springtime always brings out the track crews for necessary repairs and infrastructure upgrades and 2025 will have Union Pacific maintenance-of-way gangs hard at work between Marshall in East Texas and the Dallas-Fort Worth area. If...

March 14, 2025 - TRA Newswire -Early registration for the 21st Annual Southwestern Rail Conference at the Hurst Texas Conference Center ends March 22nd so you only have a few days to take advance of a discounted rate.The only all-rail...

March 10, 2025 - RailwayAge.com, David Peter Alan -The big buzz and bigger controversy around Texas during the past several years has been a proposal by a company called Texas Central to build and operate a high-speed rail line between...

February 26, 2025 - TRA Newswire - (Updated with Amtrak comment 2/27) -There is movement in the process to bring high-speed rail service to the Lone Star state so Texans can travel between Dallas/Fort Worth and Houston. Amtrak just announced...

February 13, 2025 - TRA Newswire -Groundbreaking is set for Monday, February 17, as Ponca City Oklahoma moves ahead to restore its railroad depot, even before plans are finalized to run the Fort Worth to Kansas extension of the daily...

December 12, 2024 - TRA Newswire -Bringing back passenger rail service that was lost over a half-century ago is not cheap. But it is needed to stimulate the economy on Northern Oklahoma and South Central Kansas. Officials today heard Kansas Department...

December 10, 2024 - TRA Newswire -It's not years anymore. Knox Ross, Chairman of the Southern Rail Commission, says that the return of passenger service between New Orleans and Mobile, Alabama is "down to months, not years."At the quarterly commission...