Updated December 28, 2020 - TRA Newswire - Two heavy haul locomotives pulling a 100 car ballast train from Alpine, Texas have made their way over the long mothballed South Orient Railroad line to Presidio, in deep Southwest Texas. This...

December 22, 2020 – TRA Newswire - The 45 short line railroads operating in Texas got their Christmas gift several days early when the omnibus appropriations/coronavirus relief/tax legislation passed in Congress. That bill contained the law that makes permanent the...

Dallas Area Rapid Transit (DART) received new rail Dec. 18 for its Silver Line project in Plano. A total of 200, 80-foot rail sections, or 16,000 feet of rail, were delivered by special train from Steel Dynamics, Inc., of Indiana, to...

December 22, 2020 - TRA Newswire / Rail Passengers Association - Congress has finally passed emergency coronavirus funding bill that will prevent further service cuts and layoffs at Amtrak and other U.S. transit agencies. The relief package includes $1 billion for Amtrak and...

December 20, 2020 - TRA Newswire - UPDATED January 2, 2021 to show agreement reached. Fort-Worth based Rio Grande Pacific subsidiary Colorado Midland & Pacific Railway Company (CMP) has entered into a commercialagreement with Union Pacific Railroad (UP) for the majority...

December 10, 2020 - LPGasMagazine.com - Phoenix Park Energy Marketing plans to construct the Southern Gateway Rail Hub, a 30,000-barrels-per-day (bpd) LPG rail terminal in Corpus Christi, Texas, to serve export markets from local LPG supply sources. The Southern Gateway Rail...

December 10, 2020 - Abilene Reporter News - Trains brought progress to Abilene, and now progress in the South of Downtown Abilene District is about moving trains down the tracks. Ironhorse Resources railroad company is selling the historic Burlington Depot at...

December 15, 2020 - TRA Newswire - BNSF Railway has named a Gainesville Texas development one of its Certified Sites, cutting construction time for new rail-served businesses by an average six to nine months. Gateway Industrial Park in Gainesville is...

[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] December 11, 2020 - TRA Newswire - Georgetown Rail Equipment Company (GREX), which was founded 27 years ago in their namesake Texas city, will become part of Loram on January 1st  a company long known for its rail inspection and maintenance...

December 8, 2020 - TRA Newswire - The first phase of a major rail park opened this week in Port Arthur, Texas as rail cars started rolling onto some 30,000 feet of track. Alpenglow Rail and USA Rail Terminals opened the...