August 27, 2018 - TRA Newswire / TRAINS Magaine - In a stunning announcement from Amtrak Senior Vice President and Chief Commercial Officer Stephen Gardner to officials in towns along the Southwest Chief route,  he indicated that the passenger railroad will...

August 23, 2018 - TRA Newswire - Updated - North Texas' Trinity Railway Express, Denton County's A-Train and Austin's CapMetro are all recipients of federal grant funding to implement Positive Train Control. The Federal Railroad Administration (FRA) today awarded $203,698,298 in grant funding for...

April 26, 2018 - TRA Newswire - Union Pacific continues to make strides implementing positive train control (PTC). The company anticipates it will meet all required deadlines for installing PTC on its network. As allowed by federal law, Union Pacific will...

February 15, 2018 - TRA Newswire - Union Pacific continues to make strides implementing positive train control (PTC). The company anticipates it will make all required deadlines for installing PTC on its network. As allowed by federal law, Union Pacific will...

February 9, 2018 - TRA Newswire  - BNSF is the first and only Class I railroad to complete installation of all mandated Positive Train Control (PTC) infrastructure on their network. As the company moves toward meeting the December 31 2018 deadline,...

October 28, 2015 - TRA Newswire Congress OK's PTC implementation to 2018 with, maybe, a 24 month extension. As  H.R.38​19 - Surface Transportation Extension Act of 2015​​  is signed into law, it will extend the deadline for America's railroads to fully implement PTC by...

(TRA Note: Dallas Morning News readers respond to possible train service cuts if Congress does not approve an extension of mandated Positive Train Control (PTC) legislation that most all railroads will not be able to have in place by December...

UPDATED: October 25, 2015 - TRA Lacking Congressional action within days, railroads will be notifying their shippers and commuter railroads will tell their passengers that services will be suspended at the end of the year. Inaction by lawmakers to grant an...

Texas Tribune TribTalk - October 5, 2015   The only time most Texans pay attention to railroads is when they are caught at a crossing waiting for a freight train to pass. But much of what we take for granted in our daily...

Safety rule threatens North Texas commuter, freight train service Brandon Formby -Dallas Morning News Transportation Writer - October 13, 2015 Thousands of North Texas commuters who take the TRE or Denton County’s A-train could find themselves on buses or looking for other...