June 15, 2022 - TRA Newswire -DC-based Rail Passengers Association CEO Jim Mathews today urged the Texas Supreme Court to rule quickly and directly on legal challenges to Texas Central Railway's plans to link Dallas and Houston, saying that the...

June 15, 2022 - TRA Newswire -The Federal Railroad Administration (FRA) will distribute grants totaling over $2 million to 25 law enforcement agencies in 13 states to combat "high instances of rail trespass-related incidents and casualties" on railroad property. The...

Updated June 14, 2022 - TRA Newswire -Carlos Aguilar, the CEO and President of Texas Central Partners, announced he is resigning after being at the helm of the massive infrastructure railroad project for six years. He made the announcement public...

June 7, 2022 - TRA Newswire -Union Pacific Railroad has joined the RailPulse coalition and its effort to develop, broaden and accelerate the use of GPS and other telematics technologies in North America’s freight rail industry.Union Pacific is RailPulse’s seventh member....

June 4, 2022 - TRA Newswire -There is actual interest in pursuing grants for state rail projects at the Texas Department of Transportation, an agency not noted for putting out news releases on rail efforts and that has been hesitant...

June 2, 2022 - TRA Newswire-In another weak showing, Texas will only get 0.02% of over $368 million that the Federal Railroad Administration has announced in railroad grants under the Consolidated Rail Infrastructure and Safety Improvements (CRISI) program this week....

June 1, 2022-trains.com-Grass-roots organization seeks to restore Sightseer Lounge, other amenities cut by management."There is no Sightseer Lounge on this train. Once again, there is no Sightseer Lounge on this train,” emphasized the public-address announcement. “You must buy food to...

May 31, 2022 - TRA Newswire -Three Texas Congressmen, representing mostly rural counties, have piled on with a letter to the Supreme Court of Texas in their attempt to derail a private company from building a high-speed rail line between...

May 26, 2022 - kltv.com -A project over a decade in the making is increasing economic opportunity in Henderson and the county of Rusk as a whole.According to John Cloutier, President of the Rusk County Rural Rail District, the county...

May 31, 2022 - TRA Newswire -Dallas-based Trinity Industries, Inc. (NYSE:TRN) ("Trinity") today announced the acquisition of Quasar Platform Inc. ("Quasar") from Cando Rail. Quasar is an end-to-end rail logistics software platform providing a real-time data universe to freight rail...