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TxDOT’s proposed plans for passenger trains could improve travel for Texas Triangle
April 24th, 2023
April 20, 2023 - TheDailyTexan.com - Kylee Howard, Senior News Reporter - The Texas Department of Transportation announced their hope to build passenger trains connecting Dallas-Fort Worth, San Antonio and Houston during a conference in Dallas earlier this month. According to Texas Rail...
UP announces seamless North American connection service; Q1 results battered by bad weather
April 24th, 2023
April 24, 2023 - TRA Newswire - A second cross-border rail alliance is born this monthHot on the heels of the recent merger of Canadian Pacific and Kansas City Southern, now called CPKC, which created a North America funnel for...
Time to call your State Senator and Representative, lets get rail funding for Texas
April 20th, 2023
Updated April 22, 2023 - TRA Newswire -The days are dwindling down for the 88th Texas legislative session and there has been nary a dollar set aside yet for state rail funding so Texas can compete for the billions in...
Amtrak wants to see major service expansion in Texas Triangle, I-10 and I-20 national trains
April 19th, 2023
April 19, 2023 - TRA Newswire -If the Federal Railroad Administration approves Corridor Identification programs for the nation's passenger rail service, Amtrak, Texans could look forward to more trains between Lone Star cities. Ambitious plans include making the Sunset Limited, now...
Railroader and advocate Garl Latham passed away
April 17th, 2023
April 17, 2023 - TRA Newswire -Gary Boyd Latham, a career Texas railroader with over 40 years professional experience in both freight and passenger operations, passed away last week.Garl was the owner of Latham Railway Services, a Texas-based planning and consulting...
The marriage is final: Texas has a new named railroad today
April 14th, 2023
April 14, 2023 - TRA Newswire -Today marks the start of a new partnership between Canadian Pacific (CP) and Kansas City Southern (KCS), now to be known as CPKC throughout Texas and the rest of North America. The merger of...
TxDOT Rail Division announces initiatives to move goods and people, help economic development
April 13th, 2023
April 13, 2023 - TRA Newswire -The Rail Division at the Texas Department of Transportation has some initiatives underway to improve the flow of goods and people through rail improvements and to show how rail benefits economic development."We've really done...
Video presentations from Southwestern Rail Conference have been posted
April 12th, 2023
April 12, 2023 - TRA Newswire -There's a wealth of information on the future of freight and passenger rail in Texas and it's now available to view from presentations at the 19th Annual Southwestern Rail Conference, hosted by Texas Rail...
Hopes dim for passenger rail linking Parker and Palo Pinto counties to Fort Worth
April 11th, 2023
April 11, 2023 - WeatherfordDemocrat.com - Parker County residents have commuted west to Metroplex jobs for decades, with Palo Pinto County denizens more recently joining that commute as Metroplex migrants move west.Maybe it would be nice for them to take the...
Oklahoma officials want to expand Heartland Flyer into Kansas, connect to east-west trains
April 11th, 2023
April 9, 2023 - JoplinGlobe.com - Oklahoma officials are partnering with their Kansas counterparts in a bipartisan push to expand Oklahoma’s existing passenger rail line into Kansas, giving both states’ residents easier access to major east-west trains.The two states have made...