October 16, 2024 - TRA Newswire -Following a favorable court ruling, unless the Austin Transit Partnership is faced with even more delays, design and construction may be able to continue on the city's $7 billion Project Connect light rail and...

June 3, 2024 - TRA Newswire -Some 50 miles north of Dallas, a scene will be playing out in the 15th District Court of Grayson County between the small town of Gunter and a Class 1 railroad that owns property...

January 24, 2022 - David Peter Alan, Contributing Editor, Railway Age  - A landowner in rural Texas is locked in a legal battle with the companies that are planning to build the Texas Central high-speed rail (HSR) project, which would establish...

April 14, 2021 - TRA Newswire - In what seems like a never ending chain of lawsuits against a high-speed rail line,  rural counties and landowners between Dallas and Houston are at it again. Texas Central Railroad, the private company in...

January 10, 2020 - TRA Newswire - 38 freight shippers claim that four Class 1 railroads unfairly overcharged them by adding fuel surcharges to their shipments and allegedly conspired to fix prices as far back as 2003.  That's according to a...

The hits just keep on coming. It's another interesting month watching the rhetoric from rural interests intent on killing a high speed rail project between Dallas and Houston. First we heard from Marty Hiles, Commissioner, Ellis County Community Development Sub Regional Planning Commission. Mr. Hiles blasted...