June 9, 2021 - TRA Newswire -
The historic Texas State Railroad in East Texas received $1.5 million in funding from the 87th legislative session to keep the rail line operating. The allocation can be used to purchase additional rail cars,...
April 18, 2021 - TexasTribune.com podcast -
Texas Senate Transportation Chair Robert Nichols (R) Jacksonville, interviewed by Texas Tribune CEO Evan Smith on his Point of Order podcast this week, did not speak highly of public transportation as an important component...
March 17, 2021 - TRA Austin -
The Chairs of the Texas House and Senate Transportation Committee have filed identical bills to put more punch into transportation projects this session.
Texas Rail Advocates supports the Transportation Chairs forward thinking on both tracks...
December 10, 2019 - TRA Newswire-
In 1872, the International Railroad and the Houston and Great Northern Railroad met in the East Texas town of Palestine, Texas and merged the following year into the International and Great Northern Railroad (IGN). An...
The calls to kill a $10 billion dollar high speed rail project in Texas seemed to come fast and furious.... until now.
In a news story Monday, April 4 in the Waco Tribune Waco and McLennan County leaders came out in support of...
