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Mexico orders railroads to prioritize passenger train services over freight operations - two lines to reach Texas border cities
November 26th, 2023
UPDATED November 26, 2023 - TRA Newswire - Mexico’s government issued a federal mandate this week forcing private railway companies operating in the country to offer passenger service over their normal daily freight runs.Two of the passenger lines proposed would run...
Why the Amtrak Sleeper Car Is the ultimate way to travel across Texas
October 24th, 2023
November 2023 - TexasMonthly.com / By Sasha von Oldershausen -The road to far West Texas is rambling, which is to say there’s no easy way to get there, no matter where you’re coming from. I learned this quickly during my three years...
Hopes dim for passenger rail linking Parker and Palo Pinto counties to Fort Worth
April 11th, 2023
April 11, 2023 - WeatherfordDemocrat.com - Parker County residents have commuted west to Metroplex jobs for decades, with Palo Pinto County denizens more recently joining that commute as Metroplex migrants move west.Maybe it would be nice for them to take the...
New group wants to convince San Antonio to support rail transit
December 9th, 2022
December 9, 2022 - SanAntonioReport.org -Around a snack-filled table inside of a vintage train car at San Antonio’s Texas Transportation Museum, 12 members of San Antonians for Rail Transit ranging in age from five to 70 met in early December for the...
U.S. Senator Cassidy: Passenger rail service could be coming to NW Louisiana, Texas
August 31st, 2022
On Tuesday, Aug. 30, Senator Bill Cassidy met with city officials and community leaders to discuss the possibility of this passenger rail service to run between Atlanta and the Dallas/Fort Worth region through north Louisiana. Cassidy says the likelihood of...
Connection with Texas: Why it will take time to build a passenger rail network in Mexico
May 31st, 2022
June 1, 2022 - bnamericas.com -President Andrés Manuel López Obrador promised to revamp passenger train services in Mexico, which will create several challenges for the infrastructure, communications and transportation ministry (SICT).BNamericas spoke with the ministry's rail and multimodal development chief,...
Smith County Commissioners show support for proposed I-20 railway project
April 21st, 2022
April 19, 2022 - Tylerpaper.com - Smith County Commissioners agreed to support a proposed Interstate 20 corridor passenger railway route that would extend between major metroplexes.This proposed Amtrak passenger railway would travel between the Dallas Fort Worth metroplex to Atlanta, Georgia.“What’s...
Southwestern Rail Conference Video: new TxDOT Rail Division Director sets his priorities
April 18th, 2022
April 18, 2022 - TRA Newswire - Jeff Davis, still fairly new in his position as the head of TxDOT's Rail Division, has set priorities he wants to see accomplished.Davis' remarks from the Southwestern Rail Conference can be found on the...
House Transpo Chair Canales calls Interim Charge hearing for April 26
April 17th, 2022
April 20, 2022 - TRA Newswire -Terry Canales, Chair of the Texas House Committee on Transportation, has set April 26th at 12:30pm to hear from parties on interim charges and topics under the committee purview.Of interest in rail circles, the...
New Poll: 78% of Americans want increased investments in passenger rail in the U.S.
March 30th, 2022
March 29, 2022 - TRA Newswire -
The vast majority of Americans want the federal government to invest in strengthening the national passenger rail network, according to a new poll by the Rail Passengers Association (RPA), the nation's largest advocacy organization for rail...