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Trump Administration’s first budget calls for end to national network trains - dumps urban transit

March 16th, 2017
Updated March 16, 2017 - NARPrail.org & TRA Newswire - The White House released its “skinny budget”—a general budget outline with few programmatic details—today. And while infrastructure investment has been a major theme of President Trump’s campaign and first 100 days,...

Texas bullet train firm calls provision added to Senate budget a "job killer"

March 15th, 2017
March 15, 2017 - Texas Tribune Officials with Texas Central Partners, the private firm developing the Houston-Dallas high-speed rail line, said the rider added to the state senate's proposed budget Wednesday would put their project at risk. BY BRANDON FORMBY AND MATTHEW...

Passengers oppose job-killing resolutions aimed at proposed Texas bullet train

March 14th, 2017
March 14, 2017 - TRA Newswire - Freestone County Times - Washington, D.C. — The National Association of Railroad Passengers is calling on leaders in the Texas State Legislature to reject a draft of job-killing regulations aimed at the private-sector project to...

Texas Central fights legislators' efforts to kill high-speed rail project

March 9th, 2017
March 9, 2017 - Progressive Railroading Magazine - Texas Central Partners LLC is fighting state lawmakers' plans to kill its privately funded project to build a Dallas-to-Houston bullet-train passenger service. Earlier this week, almost 9,000 citizen letters in support of the project...

Rep Ashby files bill to help Texas short line railroads

March 9th, 2017
January 9, 2017 - TRA Newswire - Representative Trent Ashby (R), Lufkin, has filed House Bill 3566 that would allow the 43 short line railroads that operate in Texas the ability to use tax credits for certain railroad reconstruction and replacement...

BNSF announces 2016 customer economic development results - includes $1 3 billion Arkansas steel mill

February 28th, 2017
February 28, 2017 - TRA Newswire - BNSF Railway Company (BNSF)  announced that customers served by the freight rail provider invested nearly $3.5 billion in 2016. This figure reflects several large investments by customers including the completion of Big River Steel's...

BNSF's 2016 earnings hit by decline in coal, crude oil volumes

February 28th, 2017
February 28, 2017 - Progressive Railroading Magazine - BNSF Railway Co. reported fourth-quarter 2016 revenue, operating income and net income all declined compared with the same quarter in 2015. In 2016, total revenue slipped 2 percent to $5.3 billion, operating income fell...

Dallas News: Dallas - Houston Bullet Train Seems Like A No-Brainer

February 28th, 2017
February 28, 2016 - Mitchell Schnurman - Dallas Morning News Business Insight - As a transit option, a Texas bullet train would be a major breakthrough. As an economic development project, it would be off the charts. That’s because taxpayers don’t have...

Texas Central asks for public support against flurry of anti-rail bills

February 24th, 2017
February 24, 2017 - TRA Newswire - Texas Central, pushing back against a flurry of bills filed in the Texas legislature to kill their high speed train project between Dallas and Houston, put out a plea to everyday Texans asking for their...

North Texas COG OKs backstop for high speed rail environmental study

February 24th, 2017
February 24, 2017 - TRA Newswire - The Regional Transportation Council of the North Central Texas Council of Governments has approved a measure to backstop the continuation of the environmental impact statement for the Dallas-Fort Worth Core Express, a proposed high-speed...

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