October 8, 2025 - TRA Newswire -The new Amtrak Mardi Gras trains running between New Orleans and Mobile, Alabama have carried well over 15,000 riders after five weeks of service along Gulf Coast cities in Louisiana, Mississippi and Alabama. Those...

October 6, 2025 - San Antonio Express-News, Richard Webner, Transportation Writer -During a presentation over the weekend, Caroline Mays, a senior director at the Texas Department of Transportation, displayed three maps not of the state's highways - the agency's usual...

September 21, 2025 - TRA Newswire -States and rail entities will soon be scrambling to apply for over $5 billion that the Federal Railroad Administration just announced will be designated for intercity passenger rail projects, including safer at-grade rail crossings. In...

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 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...

August 20, 2025 - TRA Newswire -A 'first-person' report on new service between New Orleans and Mobile, Alabama that started Monday, re-establishing train travel along the Gulf Coast that had been missing for 20 years. Texas Rail Advocates Advisor Chris...

August 17, 2025 - Axios.com - For the first time since Hurricane Katrina, an Amtrak conductor in New Orleans shouted "all aboard!" as passengers loaded up a Mobile-bound train on Saturday.Why it matters: The Mardi Gras line links New Orleans with four other Gulf Coast towns...

August 10, 2025 - RailPassengers.org -Just a few days following Union Pacific’s announcement of its intent to merge with Norfolk Southern, Amtrak revealed it has settled with UP over its long-running late-trains proceeding and asked the Surface Transportation Board to dismiss the...

August 4, 2025 - T4america.org - $66 billion was dedicated to rail in the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act (IIJA), but this historic amount was directed into a federal structure that has repeatedly failed to efficiently manage passenger rail projects, including...