December 22, 2023 - TRA Newswire -International rail gateways at Eagle Pass and El Paso, on the Texas-Mexican border, have reopened to commerce today, according to Customs and Border Patrol's Office of Field Operations. The two major rail gateways were...
April 10, 2023 - TRA Editorial - We look in disbelief how El Paso has taken a prize trophy like their art-deco streetcars that ran on a regular schedule when the line first operated, and now which some on the city...
December 16, 2018 - TRA Newswire -
Considered one of the state's leading policy leaders on transportation issues, State Representative Joe Pickett - El Paso, said he will retire from the Texas House to undergo cancer treatments.
Pickett has served the last...
November 6, 2018 - ProgressiveRailroading.com -
The Camino Real Regional Mobility Authority in Texas has finished construction on the El Paso Streetcar project, the agency announced last week.
The announcement follows two years of work along the 4.8-mile system, which could open as soon as...
March 19, 2018 - ElPasoTimes.com -
El Paso $97M streetcar, restoration project nearly complete
El Paso's streetcar No. 1506 is home.
Amid a police escort, the newly refurbished President’s Conference Committee vintage streetcar made its way to the maintenance and storage facility on Santa Fe...
June 29, 2017 - KVIA.com -
A recent study by the Chicago-Based nonprofit Center for Neighborhood Technology looks at the feasibility of such a project. It projects the cost of commuter rail connecting El Paso to Las Cruces at $120 to...
December 29, 2016 - Las Cruces Sun-News -
A large-scale railway study in the works could lead to the eventual relocation of BNSF Railway tracks in southern Doña Ana County.
The options are being considered in conjunction with a bigger-picture proposal to relocate...
September 19, 2016 - TRA Newswire -
Union Pacific and Norfolk Southern are now operating a new competitive domestic EMP service from the El Paso area to Atlanta, Jacksonville and Miami in the Southeast.
Originating at the UP’s Santa Teresa, NM terminal...
June 30, 2016 - MassTransit Magazine
Rail lines connecting Paisano Drive to Father Rahm Street in South El Paso are set to be welded within a few weeks as part of the $97 million Streetcar Project expected to debut in 2018,...
April 28, 2016 - KWRG.org
Over 100 people attended two public meetings in Dona Ana County this week to look at the possibility of creating a commuter rail line that will extend from Las Cruces to El Paso.
The first round of...