June 29, 2022 - TRA Newswire -Too many carloads and not enough rail workers. That's the case across Texas and the rest of the nation as Class 1's and some short lines struggle to fill positions after cutting thousands of...
April 14, 2022 - TRA Newswire - Now that the Oklahoma City Council approved a resolution supporting the daily Heartland Flyer and expansion north to Kansas, Amtrak representatives are optimistic that the plan can work within a 5-year timeline. Last year...
April 13, 2022 - TRA Newswire -With truck capacity reaching critical levels in some parts of the country, BNSF Railway has been testing a "shuttle service" between its yard near the Port of Houston and it's Alliance intermodal facility north...
March 29, 2022 - TRA Newswire -
300 attendees will get a front-row seat to hear freight and passenger rail experts discuss important issues of the day Thursday and Friday at the 18th Annual Southwestern Rail Conference in Dallas. As of...
March 21, 2022 - TRA Newswire -
The Victoria County Navigation District continues to expand and has announced plans for the Texas Logistics Center at the Port of Victoria (TXLC).
Phase 1 will see the addition of over 42,000 feet of track,...
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]March 2, 2022 - Bill Stephens, Trains.com -
BNSF Railway has urged federal regulators to take steps to protect cross-border traffic to and from Mexico as part of any approval of the proposed Canadian Pacific-Kansas City Southern merger.
But BNSF dropped its...
February 27, 2022 - TRA Newswire -
Fort Worth based BNSF Railway, described as one of the four "giants" in the Berkshire Hathaway portfolio of companies, finished 2021 with big numbers that grew both revenue and traffic. BNSF closed out the...
February 19, 2022 - TRA Newswire -
A 1.2 million square-foot flat roll steel mill that opened in Sinton, Texas will be served by both Union Pacific Railroad and BNSF Railway.
The Steel Dynamics facility, 30 miles northwest of the Port of...
January 14, 2022 - TRAINS.com -
BNSF Railway, in a Thursday regulatory filing related to the proposed Canadian Pacific-Kansas City Southern (CPKC) merger, said it may seek trackage rights on Kansas City Southern to reach the Mexican border at Laredo, Texas.
The...
August 14, 2021 - TRA Newswire -
Another Texas city is jumping on the rail park bandwagon, this time in the North Texas city of Gainesville.
The Gainesville Economic Development Corporation has signed an agreement with Strategic Rail Industrial, a Philadelphia-based rail...