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Central Texas floods severed freight rail service north and west of Austin
July 26th, 2025
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...
OKLAHOMA EDITORIAL: Kudos to North Texas agency for bailing out the Flyer
July 26th, 2025
July 19, 2025 - Tahlequah Oklahoma Daily Press - Reprinted with authorization -State-level politicians grow increasingly incompetent, stingy and cruel in many parts of the country, and the Texas Legislature – whose members meet only every other year and undoubtedly...
CRISI grant allowed TXNW Rail to upgrade and enhance safety on Panhandle short line
July 22nd, 2025
July 22, 2025 - TRA Newswire -The Texas North Western Railway Company (TXNW) has completed significant infrastructure improvements in the Texas panhandle town of Etter, with a 50/50 cost sharing federal program that will improve rail safety, while reducing rail...
Texas Central investor says Dallas-Houston high-speed rail is "shovel ready"
July 22nd, 2025
July 22, 2025 - Dallasnews.com -John Kleinheinz is the chief executive of Kleinheinz Capital Partners, the leading investor of Texas Central, the company behind the Dallas-Houston high-speed rail project.In an Op-Ed published in the Dallas Morning News, Kleinheinz said:If you...
Merger mania hits the railroads: Western UP and BNSF now angling for new Eastern marriage partners
July 22nd, 2025
July 22, 2025 - TRA Commentary -Except for some consolidation in the short line railroad arena and Canadian Pacific Railway-Kansas City Southern morphing into CPKC in April 2023, merger talks between Class 1's had been deathly silent. Until recently, that is.Last...
Texas Streets Coalition adds Intercity Passenger Rail to their vision plan for 2027 state legislature, TRA to play a part
July 21st, 2025
July 21, 2025 - TRA Newswire -Getting a head start on the 2027 Texas legislative session, leaders of grass-roots and non-profit organizations met in Houston earlier this month and have set their sights on making a statewide Intercity Passenger Rail...
Texas's most beautiful Amtrak station is also one of its most underrated
July 21st, 2025
July 20, 2025 - thetravel.com - It’s a common saying that “everything is bigger in Texas.” The state is renowned for its expansive highways, vast ranches, generous food portions, and thriving cities. While big projects like a proposed Houston-to-Dallas high-speed rail line—set...
BNSF fast-tracks freight service from Los Angeles to Houston with 3 day service
July 16th, 2025
July 16, 2025 - TRA Newswire -BNSF Railway announced the launch of a new, expedited rail service from Los Angeles to Houston with the first operating train on July 10th. In a statement from the railroad, "This third-day service marks a...
Surface Transportation Board backs CPKC in grain export dispute with Union Pacific
July 15th, 2025
July 7, 2025 - Trains.com -Canadian Pacific Kansas City can send Midwestern grain to export at the ports of Houston and Galveston via haulage rights over Union Pacific south of Beaumont, Texas, the Surface Transportation Board said.Union Pacific in 2023 had...
US rail workers worried over safety and security threats allowing Mexican engineers to operate trains in Texas and US
July 15th, 2025
July 15, 2025 - TRA Newswire -The Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers and Trainmen (BLET) have raised concern over safety and security threats linked to a plan by Class I railroads that would allow Mexican engineers to operate trains in Texas and...