March 16, 2025 - TRA Austin -Bill filing for the 89th Legislature is now history. There were a flurry of bills that could affect both freight and passenger rail in Texas and we're going to run them down for you. Representative...

March 15, 2025 - TRA Newswire -Springtime always brings out the track crews for necessary repairs and infrastructure upgrades and 2025 will have Union Pacific maintenance-of-way gangs hard at work between Marshall in East Texas and the Dallas-Fort Worth area. If...

March 14, 2025 - TRA Newswire -Early registration for the 21st Annual Southwestern Rail Conference at the Hurst Texas Conference Center ends March 22nd so you only have a few days to take advance of a discounted rate.The only all-rail...

March 14 2025 - TRA Newswire -You'll be able to buy tickets soon for the start of passenger rail service along the Gulf Coast from New Orleans to Mobile, Alabama. During the quarterly meeting of the Southern Rail Commission (SRC),...

Marfch 12, 2025 - TRA Austin -A state program that would allow the Texas Department of Transportation to issue grants for separating roadways from railroads at crossings passed the Senate Transportation Committee on a 9-0 vote and now heads for...

March 10, 2025 - RailwayAge.com, David Peter Alan -The big buzz and bigger controversy around Texas during the past several years has been a proposal by a company called Texas Central to build and operate a high-speed rail line between...

March 11, 2025 - TRA  Newswire -Patriot Rail Company, U.S. operator of short line and regional freight railroads, transloading and other rail services, announces a new multi-commodity transload facility on Canadian Pacific Kansas City's (CPKC) network in Denton, Texas. The facility will...

March 11, 2025 - Trains.com -Union Pacific on Monday notified employees at its Palestine, Texas, car shop that their current jobs would be eliminated following the latest ruling in a long-running court battle over an agreement dating to 1872.The Dallas Morning...

March 9, 2025 - TRA Austin -We're catching up on some rail bills that have been filed over the last week, some that we favor and one that we do not.  All of the current session bills we track can...

March 6, 2025 - TRA Newswire -Texas Materials Group is proposing a 27 mile long rail line in Burnet county to transport aggregate between quarries and has petitioned the Surface Transportation Board (STB) for permission to proceed. The proposal would revive...