February 6, 2022 - TRA Newswire - The Rail Division at the Texas Department of Transportation is adding new positions and has posted those on the agency website. Two new positions are now open for applicants: a Rail Program Coordinator and a...

February 4, 2022 - TRA Newswire - Union Pacific Railroad has again been named to Fortune magazine's World's Most Admired Companies list and is the highest ranked railroad in the Trucking, Transportation and Logistics category. The magazine's annual World's Most Admired list will...

January 30, 2022 - TRA Newswire - The Wabtec plant at Fort Worth is about to get a lot busier as Union Pacific Railroad announces the purchase of 10 FLXdrive battery-electric locomotives for use in its freight rail yards. The order...

January 23, 2022 - TRA Newswire - Union Pacific Railroad announced it will be the primary intermodal rail transportation provider in the western U.S. for Schneider effective January 2023. The new partnership results from Schneider exiting their business with BNSF Railway....

January 21, 2022 - TRA Newswire - Forget about Infrastructure Week. 2022 is shaping up to be Infrastructure Year. With less than 70 days to go before the 18th Annual Southwestern Rail Conference, the buzz about the Infrastructure Act has everyone wondering...

January 20, 2022 - TRA Newswire - Three Texas transit agencies have been awarded grants totaling almost $2 million in a pilot program for planning transit oriented development (TOD) around rail stations. CapMetro in Austin, Trinity Metro in Fort Worth and Dallas...

January 20, 2022 - TRA Newswire - Union Pacific reported its 4th quarter and 2021 results today with what was described as a banner year for the railroad, despite supply chain problems, wildfires, virus challenges and extreme weather events. “The Union Pacific...

January 20, 2022 - TRA Austin - Capitol Metro broke ground this week for the new Broadmoor Station, to be located inside the future 66-acre Uptown ATX development in North Austin. The $3 billion dollar mixed-use development is near The Domain. The...

January 19, 2022 - TRA Newswire - (photo credit Jack Lee Stryker II) A 400-car storage-in-transit (SIT) logistics yard will be developed alongside Interstate 10 in Baytown to alleviate rail-car congestion and help with supply chain distribution. It's called Port 10 Watco...

Updated January 20, 2022 - TRA Newswire - Amtrak has announced temporary service cuts to its national network train service due to "staffing challenges resulting from Covid-19 and the highly active Omicron variant," according to a company statement. 8% of service...