March 5, 2022 - TRA Newswire/RailPassengers.org - Amtrak's Texas Eagle, cut back to operating only five days a week because of crew shortages, will return to daily service on March 28th along with four other national network trains. Other routes around...

March 5, 2022 - TRA Newswire - Amtrak President and CEO Stephen Gardner will be one of the presenters at SXSW in Austin during the annual mega-event. For the first time in over fifty years, there is game-changing federal investment on...

[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]March 2, 2022 - Bill Stephens, Trains.com - BNSF Railway has urged federal regulators to take steps to protect cross-border traffic to and from Mexico as part of any approval of the proposed Canadian Pacific-Kansas City Southern merger. But BNSF dropped its...

March 2, 2022 - KERAnews.org - Dallas Area Rapid Transit shut down all bus and light-rail services during the winter storms in February. And some Dallas city council members are demanding to know why. At a meeting Wednesday, council members were briefed...

March 3, 2022 - TRA Newswire - Four Union Pacific siding extensions either under construction or recently completed in Texas are delivering a win-win for the railroad and for some diverse suppliers. The railroad's strategy of longer passing sidings on its mostly...

March 3, 2022 - TRA Newswire - Who will get over $100 billion in funding for expanding passenger and freight rail? What could it mean for Texas? Chief Counsel of the Federal Railroad Administration, Allison Ishihara Fultz, is one of the leaders...

February 27, 2022 - TRA Newswire - Fort Worth based BNSF Railway, described as one of the four "giants" in the Berkshire Hathaway portfolio of companies, finished 2021 with big numbers that grew both revenue and traffic. BNSF closed out the...

February 20, 2022 - TRA Newswire - The next chairman of the Metropolitan Transit Authority of Harris County (Houston METRO) is noted Indian-American engineer Sanjay Ramabhadran. He becomes the first from the community to lead a major public transportation agency in...

February 19, 2022 - TRA Newswire - A 1.2 million square-foot flat roll steel mill that opened in Sinton, Texas will be served by both Union Pacific Railroad and BNSF Railway. The Steel Dynamics facility, 30 miles northwest of the Port of...

February 18,2022 - TRA Newswire - The North Central Texas Council of Governments' Regional Transportation Council has revised its policy to favor high speed rail between Dallas and Fort Worth which effectively eliminates a hyperloop connection from consideration. In another rail...