June 8, 2018 - TRA Newswire - Three Congressional delegations that have supported the program to stabilize and improve the Southwest Chief route in CO, KS and NM have fired off an angry letter to Amtrak CEO Richard Anderson demanding to...

Updated June 1, 2018 - TRA Newswire - Texas Rail Advocates and Rail Passengers Association yesterday filed letters with the Surface Transportation Board supporting a Texas Central Railroad petition that would clear the way for STB to assume jurisdiction over the Texas high-speed rail...

May 4, 2018 - TRA Newswire -   DALLAS  – Developers of Texas’ high-speed train have forged an agreement with Amtrak, allowing passengers to use Amtrak’s reservation system to buy tickets for through travel on both the Texas Bullet Train and Amtrak’s...

Updated to April 30, 2018 - TRA Newswire - Texas Rail Advocates has learned that Amtrak will be running its Marshall and Texarkana stations without any paid staff sometime after June 1. Marshall Depot Board members will hold a news conference, scheduled for...

April 22, 2018 - TRA Newswire - Troubling comments from Richard Anderson, President of AMTRAK at a Southern California rail summit of 150 passenger rail officials, industry professionals and a handful of advocates. Paul Dyson, President of RAILPAC, a West Coast rail...

April 19, 2018 - RailwayAge.com - William C. Vantuono, Editor-in-Chief - Ex-Florida Congressman John Luigi Mica, a foodie who spent a considerable amount of time when he was Chairman of the House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee questioning Amtrak’s food service costs, must be very...

March 23, 2018 - TRA Newswire - Amtrak trains that run on the "host" railroads of BNSF and Union Pacific scored much higher in a new quarterly report card over other railroads that delayed passenger trains across the nation. Most of Amtrak's...

February 3, 2018 - meridianstar.com - Negotiations are underway to revive a long-awaited Amtrak route connecting Atlanta and Ft. Worth, Texas, through Meridian, but it has taken a backseat to a Gulf Coast train route that was abandoned after Hurricane Katrina. “The...

February 2, 2018 - TheHill.com - Jim Matthews, Opinion Contributor - On Wednesday morning, I asked my staff to post a cautionary video of a truck driver in Florida ignoring flashing lights and lowered crossing gates to drive across the tracks,...

November 12, 2017 - Longview News-Journal - The nation's passenger rail system and the Texas Eagle train that stops in Longview appear to be safe from federal budget cuts for now, but rail advocates say train travel needs more than status...