October 6, 2025 - TRA Newswire -BNSF Railway has deployed its first solar- and wind-powered weather station in Haslet, just north of Fort Worth. The station runs without commercial power and supports real-time weather monitoring across the rail network.The automated weather...

September 25, 2025 - TRA Newswire -Union Pacific Railroad is looking at a little friendly competition and is proposing to build a new 5 mile long branch line that would serve a petrochemical facility in Bay City, Texas. That polymer...

August 30, 2025 - TRA Newswire -Unlike Union Pacific Railroad, which is planning to marry and change the name and company colors of East coast-based Norfolk Southern to its own, Fort Worth-based BNSF Railway only want a dance partner and...

August 16, 2025 - TRA Newswire - Tesla has a big railroad shipping footprint in Central Texas, thanks to a newly constructed 183,340 square-foot Class A rail-served industrial facility in Taylor, just to the northeast of Austin. JLL Capital Markets announced it...

July 22, 2025 - TRA Commentary -Except for some consolidation in the short line railroad arena and Canadian Pacific Railway-Kansas City Southern morphing into CPKC in April 2023, merger talks between Class 1's had been deathly silent. Until recently, that is.Last...

July 16, 2025 - TRA Newswire -BNSF Railway announced the launch of a new, expedited rail service from Los Angeles to Houston with the first operating train on July 10th. In a statement from the railroad, "This third-day service marks a...

July 3, 2025 - TRA Newswire -Timber Rock Railroad (TIBR), a short line railroad that operates in deep Southeast Texas, has been added to BNSF Railway's Shortline Select Program. The Class 1 railroad started the Shortline Select program in the...

May 31, 2025 - TRA Newswire - Fort Worth based BNSF Railway, carrier J.B. Hunt Transport Services and Mexican rail provider Grupo Mexico Transportes (GMXT) have launched a new intermodal service in Mexico with Dallas-Fort Worth as one of the primary...

March 6, 2025 - TRA Newswire -Texas Materials Group is proposing a 27 mile long rail line in Burnet county to transport aggregate between quarries and has petitioned the Surface Transportation Board (STB) for permission to proceed. The proposal would revive...

February 27, 2025 - TRA Newswire -As the Brownsville and Rio Grande International Railway (BRG) turns 40 this year, the short line that serves the Port of Brownsville has seen growth surge at the southern-most port in Texas. The Brownsville and...