March 25, 2022 -  Bob Johnston, Trains.com - Reliability, utility for passenger are potential drawbacks Shared trainsets, running through between Washington D.C. and San Antonio, Texas, via Chicago, are part of the plan when the Texas Eagle and Capitol Limited resume daily operation on Monday, March...

February 23, 2022 -David Peter Alan,  Contributing Editor, Railway Age - For the past few weeks, Railway Age has conducted an in-depth examination of the case of Miles v. Texas Central Railroad & Infrastructure, Inc. (TCRI) and Integrated Texas Logistics, Inc....

February 7, 2022 - David Peter Alan, Contributing Editor - Railway Age - Since 2016, Texas landowner James Frederick Miles and the companies that are planning the Texas Central high-speed-rail line between Dallas and the edge of Houston have been engaged...

January 31, 2022 - David Peter Alan, Contributing Editor, Railway Age - For a short time, it looked like the end of the line for James Frederick Miles and his supporters. Miles is the landowner from a rural county between Dallas...

January 23, 2022 - Russell Jackson, Contributor - The Texas Eagle is buried in the secondary of the hierarchy of the endangered species of passenger transportation, Amtrak’s long distance trains. For decades the Eagle has run daily between Chicago and San Antonio, then on three...

January 24, 2022 - David Peter Alan, Contributing Editor, Railway Age  - A landowner in rural Texas is locked in a legal battle with the companies that are planning to build the Texas Central high-speed rail (HSR) project, which would establish...

January 11, 2022 - David Peter Alan, Contributing Editor, Railway Age - Part 1 of 5: A Temporary Victory for High-Speed Rail in the Lone Star State. When is a railroad not a railroad? Maybe “when it’s getting started in Texas.” The...

January 4, 2022 - Union Pacific Insights - By Andrew Brady, General Director/External Affairs - In a time when it seems like Washington can’t get even the smallest things done, one big win in 2021 for Union Pacific was the passage of...

December 21, 2021 - Robert J Leilich - Editor's note: to put this in context, Congressmen Kevin Brady (TX-08), Jake Ellzey (TX-06) and Michael McCaul (TX-10) sent a letter to Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg expressing their continuing opposition to Texas Central...

November 20, 2021 - Betsy Cantwell - GoRail.org - President Biden this week signed the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act (IIJA), a momentous, bipartisan bill that will inject $1.2 trillion into fixing and improving U.S. roads, bridges, waterways, airports and other...