September 8, 2025 - TRA Newswire -Amtrak President Roger Harris will be the featured luncheon speaker at a national gathering of passenger rail advocates in San Antonio on Saturday, October 4.DC-based Rail Passengers Association holds their national fall meeting in...

September 3, 2025 - Governing.com -While other states struggle to fund major transportation projects, Texas' 10-year transportation spending plan had surpassed $100 billion for the third year in a row. "Their entire budget is based on a fallacy, which is more...

August 31, 2025 - TRA Newswire -Denton County Transportation Authority, operator of the regional A-Train service between Denton and Carrollton in the I-35 corridor, is looking ahead to expand service.The agency is planning a two-mile extension from its southern terminus...

August 30, 2025 - TRA Newswire -Unlike Union Pacific Railroad, which is planning to marry and change the name and company colors of East coast-based Norfolk Southern to its own, Fort Worth-based BNSF Railway only want a dance partner and...

August 30, 2025 - TRA Newswire -The Texas North Western Railway Company (TXNW) held a formal ribbon-cutting ceremony in the panhandle community of Etter this week, commemorating the completion of an $8.2 million expansion and improvement project for the short line.TXNW...

August 28, 2025 - TRA Newswire -Today marks the start of brand-new NextGen Acela high-speed trains along the East Coast, the fastest in the country. Alstom USA and Amtrak are ushering in a new era of rail travel on the Northeast...

August 27, 2025 - TRA Newswire -The Texas Transportation Museum in San Antonio is putting out a call for railroad rail and ties to refresh and expand their property so more people can enjoy their static and operational displays.According to...

August 27, 2025 - TRA Newswire -Construction on the 26-mile long Dallas Area Rapid Transit (DART) Silver Line just took a leap forward when the final tie was installed on tracks in Coppell this week.When the line opens by the...

August 25, 2025 - TRA Newswire -A new economic-impact report to Congress makes a clear case that state-supported Amtrak services, like the Texas and Oklahoma-partnered Heartland Flyer, are engines of local and regional prosperity.The study, prepared by SAIPRC, the State-Amtrak Intercity...

August 21, 2025 - TRA Austin - The Texas Transportation Commission, meeting in Austin today, concurred with the Regional Transportation Council of the North Central Texas Council of Governments' funding of construction and projects that included $3.6 million "for Amtrak's Heartland...