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Safety issue: Feds cracking down on Mexican train crews operating in Texas rail yards

December 21st, 2025
December 21, 2025 - TRA Newswire -Just as the Trump administration has been cracking down on foreign truck drivers that can't read road signs or speak English, the Federal Railroad Administration has been inspecting trains at Texas border crossings and...

BNSF and CSX form an intermodal alliance: you don't have to buy a railroad to go cross-country

August 30th, 2025
August 30, 2025 - TRA Newswire -Unlike Union Pacific Railroad, which is planning to marry and change the name and company colors of East coast-based Norfolk Southern to its own, Fort Worth-based BNSF Railway only want a dance partner and...

Tesla is into railroading in a big way in the Central Texas city of Taylor

August 16th, 2025
August 16, 2025 - TRA Newswire - Tesla has a big railroad shipping footprint in Central Texas, thanks to a newly constructed 183,340 square-foot Class A rail-served industrial facility in Taylor, just to the northeast of Austin. JLL Capital Markets announced it...

Surface Transportation Board backs CPKC in grain export dispute with Union Pacific

July 15th, 2025
July 7, 2025 - Trains.com -Canadian Pacific Kansas City can send Midwestern grain to export at the ports of Houston and Galveston via haulage rights over Union Pacific south of Beaumont, Texas, the Surface Transportation Board said.Union Pacific in 2023 had...

US rail workers worried over safety and security threats allowing Mexican engineers to operate trains in Texas and US

July 15th, 2025
July 15, 2025 - TRA Newswire -The Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers and Trainmen (BLET) have raised concern over safety and security threats linked to a plan by Class I railroads that would allow Mexican engineers to operate trains in Texas and...

Union Pacific launches TrackSafe Houston to increase rail safety in the region

June 18th, 2025
June 18, 2025 - TRA Newswire - A Union Pacific Railroad pledge states "we will all go home safe." The pledge is now taking on an expanded meaning as the commitment extends beyond their team and customers to the communities they serve...

Another rail-served park pops up: Gateway Industrial Rail Park in Laredo

March 19th, 2025
March 19, 2025 - TRA Newswire -Ironhorse Resources, Inc. has announced a long-term partnership with Kraus Development to serve as the railroad developer and operator for the 2,000-acre master-planned Gateway Rail Industrial Park. The rail park is located within Kraus...

Brownsville and Rio Grande Railway celebrates 40 Years; port of Brownsville traffic shoots skyward

February 27th, 2025
February 27, 2025 - TRA Newswire -As the Brownsville and Rio Grande International Railway (BRG) turns 40 this year, the short line that serves the Port of Brownsville has seen growth surge at the southern-most port in Texas. The Brownsville and...

Fatal Pecos, Texas train/truck crash highlights need for state funding to improve safety at grade crossings

December 27th, 2024
December 27, 2024 - TRA Newswire -The National Transportation Safety Board will determine why a tractor-trailer stopped on train tracks right before a deadly crash in the West Texas city of Pecos.The NTSB did release preliminary information showing that the...

Hurricane Beryl halts freight and passenger rail activity along the Texas Gulf Coast

July 8th, 2024
Updated July 10, 2024 - TRA Newswire -Rail service is in a recovery mode following Hurricane Beryl's push through the Texas Gulf Coast. Union Pacific Railroad reports that "all impacted track segments, with the exception of the Galveston area, have been...

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