June 19, 2025 - TRA Newswire - If you're one of 5,000 people in Texas, Oklahoma and Kansas, you are going to receive an e-mail action alert from DC-based Rail Passengers Association asking for your help to contact officials and save...

June 9, 2025 - FortWorthReport.org, Eric E. Garcia - The Heartland Flyer hasn’t rolled off the tracks just yet.Regional officials are working to maintain funding to keep the Amtrak passenger train’s daily trips from Fort Worth to Oklahoma City — at least temporarily. State...

April 28, 2025 - TexasHighways.com - When Houston Natives Kim and Sean Ballesteros purchased a second home 465 miles away in the West Texas community of Sanderson, they wanted their vacation to begin the moment they walked out the door. “We didn’t...

April 25, 2025 - TRA Newswire -Agreements have been reached for new twice-daily Amtrak intercity train service along the Mississippi Gulf Coast between New Orleans and Mobile, Ala. Starting this summer, the new state-sponsored Amtrak Mardi Gras Service will offer convenient morning...

April 15, 2025 - TRA Newswire -Yesterday, U.S. Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy announced that Amtrak will no longer head up the Dallas-Houston high-speed rail project and will step aside so better equipped private sector interests can move the plan forward....

April 14, 2025 - TRA Newswire -Within a matter of hours, two breaking issues on the effort to bring high-speed rail to Texas. The next several days may tell us who is in charge of the Texas bullet train project...

March 19, 2025 - TRA Newswire -Stephen Gardner, CEO of Amtrak, announced that he was stepping down from the leadership role of the passenger rail carrier, effective immediately. Garden had held that role after more than four years at the helm...

March 15, 2025 - TRA Newswire -Springtime always brings out the track crews for necessary repairs and infrastructure upgrades and 2025 will have Union Pacific maintenance-of-way gangs hard at work between Marshall in East Texas and the Dallas-Fort Worth area. If...

March 14, 2025 - TRA Newswire -Early registration for the 21st Annual Southwestern Rail Conference at the Hurst Texas Conference Center ends March 22nd so you only have a few days to take advance of a discounted rate.The only all-rail...

March 10, 2025 - RailwayAge.com, David Peter Alan -The big buzz and bigger controversy around Texas during the past several years has been a proposal by a company called Texas Central to build and operate a high-speed rail line between...