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TxDOT's updated 2024 Texas Rail Plan to be released by years' end

October 24th, 2024
October 24, 2024 - TRA Newswire -The vision for moving people and goods by rail in Texas is due to be released to the public by the end of the year, according to the Texas Department of Transportation. The state...

TRA testimony: Texas House Transportation Committee hears rail needs at interim hearing

October 16th, 2024
October 10, 2024 - TRA Newswire -Speaking at the Texas House Committee on Transportation's Interim Hearing in Austin, Texas Rail Advocates President Peter LeCody stressed the need for support of "exceptional rail items" in the TxDOT budget when lawmakers return...

Appeals court dismisses Texas AG's challenge to halt Austin's Project Connect

October 16th, 2024
October 16, 2024 - TRA Newswire -Following a favorable court ruling, unless the Austin Transit Partnership is faced with even more delays, design and construction may be able to continue on the city's $7 billion Project Connect light rail and...

Big discussions on hefty UP topics aboard the Big Boy steam train in Texas

October 15th, 2024
October 14, 2024 - ProgressiveRailroading.com - At midday on Oct. 9, Union Pacific Railroad’s Heartland of America train pulled by the famed Big Boy steam locomotive pulled into West, Texas. UP’s senior management team — minus one member, Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer Jennifer...

Fort Worth poised to be major hub for national rail travel. Will the pieces fall into place?

October 15th, 2024
October 13, 2024 - FortWorthReport.org, David Montgomery -Nearly 400 miles north of Fort Worth, Rod Kreie, the mayor of Newton, Kansas, happily envisions a day when he and his friends can hop aboard a southbound Amtrak to go watch his...

Dayton TX industrial rail park acquires more land toward 3,800 acre buildout

October 10th, 2024
October 10, 2024 - TRA Newswire -Gulf Inland Logistics Park, managed and developed by Liberty Development Partners, announced that it has completed the acquisition of 1,149 acres of prime industrial real estate in Dayton, Texas, along the Grand Parkway, south of...

BNSF new express service to aid in transporting supplies from Pacific Northwest to Texas, adding double track in Texas

October 10th, 2024
October 2, 2024 - FortWorthReport.org -Fort Worth-based BNSF Railway launched a new express carload service Oct. 1 to ship food and building supplies to key inland markets while increasing access to Texas.The new services come as BNSF is in the...

Texas NOT participating in share of $1 billion in fed/state partnership rail grants

October 7th, 2024
October 7, 2024 - TRA Newswire -Texas Rail Advocates has been told that, as of now, the Texas Department of Transportation will not be participating in a Federal/State Partnership Program where the state could receive a share of $1 Billion...

Texas, Mexican officials rally for Austin to Monterrey rail project

October 7th, 2024
October 7, 2024 - Cristela Jones, MySA.com - Imagine a world in which San Antonians wouldn't have to drive on I-35 to Austin. A world where travelers wouldn't have to take a bus or carpool to visit family or friends in Mexico.That's...

Texas Senate hearing on transportation: fix the railroad crossing safety funding shortfall

October 6th, 2024
October 6, 2024 - TRA Newswire -At the September Texas Senate Transportation Committee's interim hearing, Committee Chairman Robert Nichols, (R) - Jacksonville, raised concern that Texas isn't putting enough money into solving the issue of separating trains from traffic at...