March 8, 2021 - TRA Newswire - No trains will be able to cross the newly rebuilt Presidio, Texas-Ojinaga, Mexico international rail bridge until the Texas legislature appropriates $35 million for the final touch, a U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP)...

March 6, 2021 - TRA Newswire - The North Central Texas Council of Governments has released the first edition of a news newsletter called DFW High-Speed Update. NCTCOG announced that the newsletter will be published monthly and include the latest available information...

March 1, 2021 - Greg Garrett, Senior Columnist, Baptistnews.com - Last fall, my hometown of Austin, Texas, put a monumental public transportation bond question on the ballot: light rail, tunnels underneath downtown, electric buses. Austin’s Capitol Metro called the plan “bold.”...

March 5, 2021 - WLOX.com - BILOXI, Miss. (WLOX) - After last week’s announcement that the passenger rail service would be returning next year to the Gulf Coast, Amtrak is narrowing that timeframe down a bit. On Friday, Amtrak announced that it hopes to...

February 27, 2021 - TRA Austin - Houston Senator Borris Miles has filed a Joint Resolution that would permit additional uses of certain dedicated general revenue to enhance public transportation, bike paths, public sidewalks and non-toll highways. If lawmakers give the Joint...

February 25, 2021 - TRA Newswire - WASHINGTON – U.S. Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg today announced that USDOT’s Build America Bureau (the Bureau) has provided a $908 million loan under the Railroad Rehabilitation and Improvement Financing (RRIF) program to the Dallas...

February 19, 2021 - TRA Newswire - Freight and passenger rail systems in Texas are coming back to life after being hammered by record cold, two snow storms, ice, frozen switches and power failures since last Sunday. The storms shut down all...

February 12, 2021 - TRA Newswire - A federal grant of $3 million will go toward an equal match from the Port of Victoria to support infrastructure improvements that include a 1.9 mile long rail loop. The rail project for the...

February 12, 2021 - TRA Newswire - Four Republican Texas Congressional members on the House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee voted to kill all funding for Amtrak, the sole national passenger rail carrier, but  bipartisan support voted down an amendment Wednesday. The amendment...

February 12, 2021 - Freightwaves.com - Trinity Industries (NYSE: TRN) will permanently close a plant in Vidor, Texas, laying off 59 workers by April 30, according to a notice sent to state officials Tuesday. Company officials said the facility’s closure is due to declining...