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Hopes dim for passenger rail linking Parker and Palo Pinto counties to Fort Worth
April 11th, 2023
April 11, 2023 - WeatherfordDemocrat.com - Parker County residents have commuted west to Metroplex jobs for decades, with Palo Pinto County denizens more recently joining that commute as Metroplex migrants move west.Maybe it would be nice for them to take the...
BNSF to spend $3.96 billion on CapEx in 2023, includes Fort Worth area additional main track
January 20th, 2023
January 20, 2023 - TRA Newswire -BNSF Railway will invest just short of $4 billion in their capital investment plan for 2023. The biggest chunk of the $3.96 billion CapEx plan, $2.85 billion, will go to maintaining the railroad's core...
Wabtec Fort Worth plant is modernizing 50 Canadian National locos
October 18th, 2022
October 18, 2022 - TRA Newswire - If you see a number of bright and shiny locomotives around North Texas sporting the distinctive CN logo from Canadian National Railroad, they're not lost and looking for their home tracks. CN is having...
Fort Worth Mayor issues letter of support for Heartland Flyer corridor expansion
July 11th, 2022
July 11, 2022 - TRA Newswire -Fort Worth Mayor Mattie Parker has jumped aboard as a Heartland Flyer expansion train supporter with a letter to Amit Bose, Federal Railroad Administrator in Washington, D.C.The letter outlines support for re-connecting passenger rail...
Oklahoma City issues support letter for Amtrak Heartland Flyer expansion
April 16th, 2022
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...
Want fed funds for state freight rail projects? Texas legislators must pony up
January 8th, 2022
January 8, 2022 - TRA Newswire -
Want to move more freight trains efficiently in Texas in 2030, 2040 and beyond?
An analysis of two major Texas Department of Transportation freight rail studies in 2021, one for the Houston-Beaumont Region and the...
TRE at 25 years: where its been, where it's at now
December 27th, 2021
December 27, 2021 - TRA Newswire -
On December 30, the Trinity Railway Express (TRE) will celebrate 25 years of providing regional rail service across the Dallas-Fort Worth metroplex.
The TRE has a chance for you to win free rides as part...
Heartland Flyer expansion from Fort Worth-Okla City-north would mean more transportation options
October 5th, 2021
October 5, 2021 - Kateleigh Mills, KOSU.org -
As a bipartisan bill that would dedicate $1.2 trillion dollars to improving the nation’s infrastructure waits for the congressional lawmakers to take action, Oklahoma public radio reporters have been asking people what they would improve...
DFW High-speed transportation study moving ahead
September 5th, 2021
August 11, 2021 - fortworthtx.gov -
The Dallas-Fort Worth High-Speed Transportation Connections Study is moving into its second phase of analysis. The Regional Transportation Council recently approved the study’s Phase 1 recommendations.
The current study is evaluating high-speed transportation alternatives to modernize and...
Full steam ahead: world's largest steam locomotive returns with 'The Big Boy 2021 Tour'
June 14th, 2021
June 14, 2021 - TRA Newswire -
Fort Worth and Houston will get an up-close and personal look at Union Pacific's Big Boy No. 4014 in August, when the world's largest steam locomotive embarks on "The Big Boy 2021 Tour" Aug....