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Texas House Transportation Funding Chair Canales calls for expanding freight and passenger rail
January 30th, 2026
January 30, 2025 - TRA Newswire -Texas State Representative Terry Canales, who serves as Chair of the House Committee on Transportation Funding, called for state lawmakers to make investments to move more people and goods by rail. Canales remarks were made...
Valley advocacy group has plans for future passenger rail connections in Texas
January 30th, 2026
January 30, 2026 - TRA Newswire -How to connect the growing Rio Grande Valley into future intercity passenger rail corridors was the aim of the RGV International Rail Conference held in Mission, Texas this week.Former Mission Mayor Dr. Armando Ocana,...
Finance roundup: Union Pacific income up in 4th quarter; BNSF to spend $3.6 billion in 2026
January 27th, 2026
January 27, 2026-TRA Newswire -Union Pacific: Good 4th Quarter / Good Overall 2025Union Pacific Railroad announced that net income was up 5% in the 4th quarter of 2025 as CEO Jim Vena announced "We had a record-breaking year and delivered best-ever...
16-acre transit oriented development planned at DART's SMU/Mockingbird Station
January 25th, 2026
January 25, 2026 - TRA Newswire -A 16-acre, master-planned transit-oriented development (TOD) at Dallas Area Rapid Transit's SMU/Mockingbird Station will feature apartments, a hotel, office space, and underground parking for DART customersDART and Trammell Crow Company have celebrated the groundbreaking...
Big Bend region international rail bridge could reopen this summer after shut down for close to 20 years
January 24th, 2026
January 24, 2026 - TRA Newswire -There are only seven international rail crossings along the U.S./Mexico border to handle all the freight traffic between the two nations at present. That is expected to change later this year when an 8th...
Short line railroad holding company G&W has 44 industrial projects underway nationwide, including in Texas
January 23rd, 2026
January 23, 2026 - TRA Newswire -Genesee & Wyoming Inc. (G&W), a short line railroad holding company, has announced its latest industrial development results – with 44 projects accounting for more than $1 billion in customer investments in 16 states,...
Fort Worth's Trinity Metro resolution highlights partnership with DART in advance of suburban pull-out elections
January 22nd, 2026
January 21, 2026 - FortWorthReport.org, Eric E. Garcia -Trinity Metro is offering its support to Dallas Area Rapid Transit as five member cities consider withdrawing from the DART system.Board members of the Fort Worth agency approved a resolution Jan. 20...
CPKC investing US$800 million in American manufacturing with Tier 4 locomotives; Wabtec Fort Worth plant benefits
January 22nd, 2026
January 22, 2026 - TRA Newswire -Canadian Pacific Kansas City (CPKC) is keeping the Wabtec locomotive plant busy in Fort Worth with the purchase of newly built rail vehicles for the North American railroad. This month, CPKC expects to receive the first...
STB throws UP-NS merger back for more data; UP's Vena says merger is good for nationwide commerce
January 18th, 2026
January 18, 2026 - TRA Newswire -The Surface Transportation Board turned back Union Pacific’s application to acquire Norfolk Southern this past Friday. The Board didn’t say the transaction is good or bad, pro-competitive or anti-competitive. What it did say, very clearly, is...
Austin light rail completes FTA environmental review, moving closer to federal funding
January 18th, 2026
January 16, 2026 - CommunityImpact.com - Austin's light rail project cleared a key federal review in January, marking a "major milestone" in the multibillion-dollar transit system's ongoing development.The nearly 10-mile Austin Light Rail is one piece of the Project Connect transit program rolling out following voterapproval in 2020. The...