July 26, 2025 -TRA Newswire -In a post on X, KUT-FM Transportation Reporter Nathan Bernier described how recent flooding in the Hill Country of Texas has closed down a freight rail link along part of a 162-mile corridor through the...

December 28, 2015 - TRA Newswire BNSF Railway Company (BNSF) announced Austin Western Railroad (AWRR) as its 2015 Shortline Railroad of the Year during BNSF’s annual Shortline Conference in Fort Worth, Texas. AWRR, which is operated by Watco Companies of Pittsburg,...

October 23, 2015  FORT WORTH, Texas--(BUSINESS WIRE)--BNSF Railway Company (BNSF) announced Austin Western Railroad (AWRR) as its 2015 Shortline Railroad of the Year during BNSF’s annual Shortline Conference in Fort Worth, Texas. AWRR, which is operated by Watco Companies of Pittsburg,...