February 13, 2025 - TRA Newswire -Groundbreaking is set for Monday, February 17, as Ponca City Oklahoma moves ahead to restore its railroad depot, even before plans are finalized to run the Fort Worth to Kansas extension of the daily...

February 13, 2025 - TRA Newswire -Newly appointed Vice Chair of the Surface Transportation Board, Michelle Schultz, will be a guest speaker during the 21st Annual Southwestern Rail Conference, April 7-8, at the Hurst Texas Conference Center.Ms. Schultz was named...

January 25, 2025 - TRA NewswireThe railroad business keeps rolling along. Union Pacific exceeded Wall Street expectations with a 7% profit increase in the final quarter of 2024 while BNSF Railway announces that it will invest $3.8 billion in capital...

January 23, 2024 - TRA Newswire -The Regional Transportation Council (RTC) of the North Central Texas Council of Governments has approved a request of $100,000 to ensure that there are no service disruptions this year on the daily Amtrak Heartland...

January 22, 2025 - TRA Newswire -The Federal Railroad Administration's evaluation of potential new daily long-distance intercity passenger routes, showed that a Houston to East Coast service had the highest preliminary ranking of 15 new routes that were studied. The...

January 22, 2025 - TRA Newswire -The East Texas city of Tyler, has commissioned a study to determine if light rail or trolley service could help augment transportation options.The Tyler City Council approved a $ 150,000 contract with Kimley-Horn to...

January 22, 2025 - TRA Newswire -Synergos and TXGN RailwaySynergos, a company that offers one-stop building materials from major manufacturers, closed on 28 acres of prime rail-served property next to Texas Gonzales and Northern Railway (TXGN), a subsidiary of Dallas-based...

January 12, 2025 - TRA Newswire -Besides the good news that Trinity Metro's TEXRail had its highest ever December ridership of 103,312, the agency just received word from the U.S. Department of Transportation that it is the recipient of a...

January 10, 2025 - TRA Newswire -The U.S. Department of Transportation’s Federal Railroad Administration (FRA) today announced that it has awarded more than $1.1 billion in Railroad Crossing Elimination Grant Program funding to 123 rail projects, improving or studying more...

January 6, 2025 - FortWorthReport.org, Eric E. Garcia - A pricey legal fight over high-speed rail routes in North Texas could be on the horizon.The Regional Transportation Council, an independent policy group of the North Central Texas Council of Governments, could...