February 13, 2025 - TRA Newswire -Groundbreaking is set for Monday, February 17, as Ponca City Oklahoma moves ahead to restore its railroad depot, even before plans are finalized to run the Fort Worth to Kansas extension of the daily...

January 5, 2025 - TRA Newswire -When Texas lawmakers convene in Austin for the 89th Legislative Session Tuesday, January 14 they will be receiving several oversize postcards from Texas Rail Advocates. One will deal with bills and resolution for linking...

December 12, 2024 - TRA Newswire -Bringing back passenger rail service that was lost over a half-century ago is not cheap. But it is needed to stimulate the economy on Northern Oklahoma and South Central Kansas. Officials today heard Kansas Department...

December 9, 2024 - TRA Newswire -Despite having fewer coaches and sleeping cars available for service, Amtrak's Texas Eagle service increased in ridership and revenue for the fiscal year that ended October 31st. The Heartland Flyer, a partnered service of the...

October 13, 2024 - FortWorthReport.org, David Montgomery -Nearly 400 miles north of Fort Worth, Rod Kreie, the mayor of Newton, Kansas, happily envisions a day when he and his friends can hop aboard a southbound Amtrak to go watch his...

July 6, 2024 - TRA Newswire -Compared to the same period in 2023, the three Amtrak intercity passenger rail services that operate in Texas showed an improvement in on-time performance (OTP) for the first six months of this year.Statistics released...

March 24, 2024 - TRA Newswire -Amtrak's recent General and Annual Legislative Report and Fiscal Year 2025 Grant Request to Congress holds some hope for improvements to the three three trains that serve Texas.If approved, a $25 million Texas and...

December 16, 2023 - TRA Commentary - Business is good! Texans took back to riding trains in 2023, showing a marked increase in ridership compared to 2022.Some 41,000 more riders were aboard Amtrak's Texas Eagle in the fiscal year that ended...

October 28, 2023 - TRA Newswire -Coming back from depressed ridership during the pandemic years, ridership on Amtrak trains in Texas shot up dramatically in fiscal year 2023, compared to the previous year. Ridership on the one daily Heartland Flyer train...

June 12, 2023 - The North Central Texas Council of Governments (NCTCOG) may be stepping in where the state of Texas faltered to make up a funding shortfall of $700 thousand for the popular daily Heartland Flyer service between Fort...