August 27, 2018 - TRA Newswire / TRAINS Magaine - In a stunning announcement from Amtrak Senior Vice President and Chief Commercial Officer Stephen Gardner to officials in towns along the Southwest Chief route,  he indicated that the passenger railroad will...

August 23, 2018 - TRA Newswire - Updated - North Texas' Trinity Railway Express, Denton County's A-Train and Austin's CapMetro are all recipients of federal grant funding to implement Positive Train Control. The Federal Railroad Administration (FRA) today awarded $203,698,298 in grant funding for...

August 7, 2018 - tribtalk.org, The Texas Tribune - Without any fanfare, the Federal Railroad Administration released the Texas-Oklahoma Passenger Rail Study (TOPRS), which was five years in the making, last November. Since then, crickets. The service level study paints a broad brushstroke showing...

August 2, 2018 - TRA Newswire - The vote was 92-6 in the Senate as the body passed the Transportation-HUD spending bill on Wednesday.  The Senate vote included $2.5 billion for passenger rail as a part of a package of fiscal 2019 funding measures. .   A...

July 26, 2018 - ProgressiveRailroading.com - The Federal Transit Administration (FTA) has certified transit-rail state safety oversight (SSO) programs in Arkansas, Louisiana, Texas and Wisconsin. Federal law requires states with transit-rail operation systems to obtain certification of their SSO programs by April 15, 2019....

July 20, 2018 - RailPassengers.org & TRA Newswire - The U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit ruled today in favor of passenger rail service by allowing Amtrak and the Federal Railroad Administration (FRA) to set their own standards for measuring passenger...

July 19, 2018 - ProgressiveRailroading.com - Trinity Metro in Fort Worth, Texas, has hired Mike Stolzman as vice president and chief operating officer of rail. He has more than 20 years of railroad experience. In 1995, he joined the Chicago and Northwestern Railway...

July 24, 2018 - TRA Commentary - The Texas Department of Transportation only has until September 17 to file for a federal grant in the latest round of the Consolidated Rail Infrastructure and Safety Improvements (CRISI) program. The Federal Railroad Administration (FRA) issued their notice of...

July 24, 2018 - TRA Newswire & ProgressiveRailroading.com - Second Quarter Results for Union Pacific Diluted earnings per share of $1.98 increased 37 percent Operating income totaled $2.1 billion, up 5 percent Operating ratio of 63.0 percent, up 1.1 points "Looking to...

June 26, 2018 - Texas Tribune - by Brandon Formby - Less than 1 percent of TXDOT's budget is earmarked for public transit As young, educated professionals push away old ideas about how to move around Texas cities, transportation planners’...