December 27, 2024 - TRA Newswire -The National Transportation Safety Board will determine why a tractor-trailer stopped on train tracks right before a deadly crash in the West Texas city of Pecos.The NTSB did release preliminary information showing that the...

December 27, 2024 - TRA Newswire -Eleven Brownsville non-profit organizations are the recipients of $ 77,500 in contributions this season from OmniTRAX, the transportation affiliate of The Broe Group, and its affiliate railroad, Brownsville & Rio Grande International Railway, LLC (BRG). As...

December 26, 2024 - TRA Newswire -For the second session in a row Representative Ana Hernandez (District-143) has filed a bill in the Texas House to limit the length of trains that run through her district. The lawmaker cites that...

December 23, 2024 - TRA Newswire -Canadian Pacific Kansas City (CPKC) said today that the 2024 CPKC Holiday Train program raised over $1.75 million and collected more than 130,000 pounds of food for local food banks during its four-week journey across Canada...

December 23, 2024 - TRA Newswire -Austin Transit Partnership (ATP), the local government corporation charged with implementing Austin’s first all-electric light rail system, has selected AECOM, a global infrastructure company, as its Delivery Partner for Austin Light Rail Phase 1....

December 17, 2025 - FortWorthReport.com, Eric E. Garcia -Passenger rail ridership to Fort Worth increased more than 14% in 2024 as Amtrak set a historic record for its national service.Two Amtrak trains — the Texas Eagle and the Heartland Flyer — chug into Cowtown...

December 22, 2024 - TRA Newswire -Patrick J. Ottensmeyer International Railway Bridge more than doubles CPKC capacity at the Laredo border crossing.Canadian Pacific Kansas City (TSX: CP) (NYSE: CP) (CPKC) said it has completed construction of the new international railway...

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...

December 10, 2024 - TRA Newswire - In the season just ended, BNSF Railway announced record agricultural volumes, which includes grain harvest, for the month of October, with a 7 percent increase in volume and velocity from 2023.  BNSF handles more agricultural...