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Fort Worth advances high-speed rail economic study with Arlington at $75K price tag

April 24th, 2025
April 23, 2024 - FortWorthReport.org, Eric E. Garcia -Fort Worth and Arlington — Tarrant County’s tourism hotspots — plan to work together to study the economic benefits of a proposed high-speed rail route to Dallas.On April 22, Fort Worth City...

Union Pacific reports 1st Quarter: revenue and income flat, but some bright spots

April 24th, 2025
April 24, 2025 - TRA Newswire -Union Pacific operating revenue was $6 billion in the first quarter of 2025, pretty much flat on a 7% growth in volume in their mix of business lines. Operating income was $2.4 billion for...

Judi Elmore, Oklahoma Champion of the Heartland Flyer, passes away

April 24th, 2025
April 24, 2025 - TRA Newswire -Oklahoma business owner and Champion of the Heartland Flyer, Judi Elmore, heard her last train horn sound on Tuesday April 22nd, when the daily service stopped to pick up passengers in the Sooner city...

Hearing scheduled for Monday, April 28 on high-speed rail in the I-35 DFW/Austin/San Antonio corridor

April 23rd, 2025
April 23, 2025 - TRA Newswire -A new twist in the high-speed rail saga happens Monday, April 28 when House Bill 483 finally gets a hearing in the Transportation Sub-Committee on Funding.The committee will hear from Texas Representative John Bucy,...

Follow rail legislation on TRA's Under the Dome page: freight and passenger rail bills are now being heard

April 21st, 2025
April 21, 2025 - TRA Newswire -Legislation is now being heard in Austin that affects the future of freight and passenger rail movement in Texas. Texas Rail Advocates is tracking  a total of 26 bills that have been filed.  Interested citizens...

Heartland Flyer End of the Line?

April 21st, 2025
April 21, 2025 - RailwayAge.com -Could June 30, a deadline only ten weeks away at this writing, mark the final run for Amtrak’s Heartland Flyer, the only passenger train in Oklahoma? That could happen, according to a report posted by the...

Kansas secures passenger rail future as Texas risks regional setback with Heartland Flyer

April 18th, 2025
April 18, 2025 - TRA Newswire -Heartland Flyer Extension gains ground while Texas hesitates on fundingTOPEKA, KS – In a bold move for regional mobility and economic development, Kansas has officially secured a future for expanded passenger rail service with the...

Texas House Transpo hears high-speed rail testimony: could be 7 years away from running Dallas-Houston trains

April 17th, 2025
April 17, 2025 - TRA Newswire -The effort to finally have high-speed train service in Texas got a shot in the arm today at the Capitol in Austin. Testimony from the organization reworking the finances of the bullet train project...

Fort Worth investment firm says Texas high-speed rail project is shovel ready as Amtrak involvement winds down

April 15th, 2025
April 15, 2025 - TRA Newswire -Yesterday, U.S. Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy announced that Amtrak will no longer head up the Dallas-Houston high-speed rail project and will step aside so better equipped private sector interests can move the plan forward....

USDOT pulls $63 million Amtrak high-speed rail grant, Tx House to hear Texas Central testimony Thursday

April 14th, 2025
April 14, 2025 - TRA Newswire -Within a matter of hours, two breaking issues on the effort to bring high-speed rail to Texas. The next several days may tell us who is in charge of the Texas bullet train project...

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