May 16, 2017 - TRA Newswire -
Kansas City Southern (KCS) announced today that its subsidiary, The Kansas City Southern Railway Company (KCSR), is investing approximately $24.6 million in 2017 on construction and improvement projects on its Pittsburg, Heavener and Shreveport...
May 8, 2017 - Dallas Morning News - Letters to the Editor -
We support the proposed Texas Bullet Train that will connect North Texas, Houston and the Brazos Valley. Developed, built and operated without state or federal grants, this project...
May 12, 2017 - KBTX.com -
The battle over high-speed rail through the Brazos Valley has been raging for years now, and it continues in courtrooms and the state capitol.
As Texans await legislative action, First News at Four invited representatives from...
May 12, 2017 - WASHINGTON, D.C. (KBTX) - All week long, Bryan/College Station representatives are visiting the nation's capitol to talk to lawmakers about issues residents care about. One of the hot button topics, local transportation issues, came up Tuesday.
"Successful...
May 12, 2017 - TRA Newswire -
In keeping with its record of paying dividends on its common stock for the past 118 consecutive years, the Board of Directors of Union Pacific Corporation (NYSE: UNP) has declared a quarterly dividend of...
May 9, 2017 - Fort Worth Star-Telegram -
BY SANDRA BAKER -
As state lawmakers in Austin debate measures that could kill plans for high-speed trains between downtown Dallas and Houston, the Fort Worth City Council is moving forward with plans to...
May 9, 2017 - TRA Newswire -
BNSF Railway is getting back on the right track. The railroad reported that pre-tax earnings grew 7% in the same quarter year over year. That was because of a 6.4% volume jump and an increase...
May 5, 2017 - TRA Newswire -
The following is the testimony of TRA Executive Director Chris Lippincott at Thursday's Texas House Transportation Committee hearing on four bills that would either delay or outright kill a bullet train project and could...
May 2, 2017 - TRA Newswire -
The Texas Department of Transportation will be holding a series of workshops around the state during the month of June to get your input on your ideas on how to keep Texas freight moving....
May 2, 2017 - TRA Newswire / NARPrail.org / APTA.com
Congress released an omnibus agreement Monday that provides increased transportation funding for the remainder of Fiscal Year 2017, with $57.651 billion in total funding for transportation and housing programs—a $350 million increase...
