June 7, 2017 - TRA Newswire - Railroads, state and local leaders travel Oklahoma to Kansas by rail this Friday. Amtrak will operate an Inspection Train through Wichita this Friday, June 9, on the BNSF Railway from Oklahoma City to Newton, Kan. Invited...

June 7, 2017 - TRA Newswire - Gary Thomas, President and Executive Director of Dallas Area Rapid Transit will be one of the top U.S. transit leaders participating in a Monday, June 12 briefing on the Trump Administration's proposed budget cuts to...

June 3, 2017 - TRA Newswire - The National Passenger Railroad Corporation, known to the public as Amtrak, has submitted its 2018 fiscal year budget to Congress, warning that a Trump Administration plan to kill all long distance train service would...

June 3, 2017 - TRA Newswire - The next step in restoring passenger rail service between Texas and Kansas will happen Friday June 9 when Amtrak and BNSF Railway will operate a special inspection trip from Oklahoma City to Kansas City. Texas...

May 30, 2017 - TRA Newswire - Holly Reed, Managing Director for External Affairs at Texas Central Railway, announced that work on the Dallas to Houston bullet train project remains at "high speed". Reed, in a news release, stated that "we have not...

May 25, 2017 - (Updated June 4, 2017) -  TRA Newswire - Two bills which Texas Rail Advocates describes as being discriminatory toward high speed rail versus other modes of transportation have passed through the Texas House and Senate and were...

May 25, 2017 - TRA Opinion - Last week was Infrastructure Week in Washington, DC. In the nation’s capital, online, and in cities across the country, advocates made the case for investing in the infrastructure that is the backbone of American prosperity...

May 23, 2017 - CommunityImpact.com - Design of Capital Metro’s new downtown Austin MetroRail station should be complete by the end of 2017. The station will replace the temporary platform the agency built on Fourth Street adjacent to the Austin Convention Center....

May 23, 2017 - NARPrail.org and APTA.com - The Trump Administration released a 2018 detailed budget proposal that guts funding to Amtrak’s long-distance trains, and slashes funding to key transit and transportation funding programs, threatening to accelerate the deterioration of physical...

May 23, 2017 - ProgressiveRailroading.com - American PetroLog LLC has completed construction of a storage and transload terminal in Venus, Texas, that will be served by BNSF Railway Co. In January, the company acquired the assets of B&E Grain Inc. and developed...