September 30, 2021 - TRA Newswire - While Amtrak has been slowly restoring its Western national network trains by adding cars and bringing back full-service meals on long-haul runs, it appears that the daily Texas Eagle continues to be lumped with...

September 29, 2021 - TRA Newswire - Galveston's popular electric trolleys will be back on track October 1st, 13 years after Hurricane Ike damaged all four of the vintage cars. Galveston Mayor Craig Brown said “we’ve been looking forward to the return...

September 29, 2021 - TRA Newswire - The 21st annual Kansas City Southern (KCS) Holiday Express program will benefit five cities in Texas this year. In partnership with a fundraiser to benefit the Salvation Army the yearly holiday train has raised...

September 21, 21021 - TRA Newswire - It’s once again September, a good time to focus on public safety as kids head back to school and more drivers crowd the roads post summer-vacation. This week marks U.S. Rail Safety Week (Sept. 20-26), a...

September 16, 2021 - RTandS.com - Over $312 million has been approved for the Project Connect venture in Austin. The Austin Transit Partnership unanimously passed the amount on Sept. 15, and the money will be used to start the MetroRail Orange and...

September 16, 2021 - TRA Newswire  - If and when President Biden's American Jobs Plan makes it to his desk for his signature it will include billions in funding to expand intercity passenger rail services. If and when that happens, Amtrak President...

September 15, 2021 - TRA Newswire / Politico - The latest twist in a bidding war between two Canadian freight rail giants and the smallest Class 1 American railroad looks like it has finally been settled. Kansas City Southern (KCS) said it...

Updated September 23 2021 - TRA Newswire - It's complicated. Start with a project that is one of the largest in scope ever dreamed of in Texas. And in Texas we do dream big. Think larger than building the mega-DFW International Airport...

September 1, 2021 - Randy Diamond, San Antonio Express-News - For more than three decades, politicians and rail advocates have dreamed of building a passenger train link between San Antonio and Monterrey, northern Mexico’s largest city. Each time, they’ve woken up with...

August 25, 2021 - mexiconewsdaily.com - The federal government (Mexico) is planning to launch an interurban train service to link Coahuila and Nuevo León to the border with the United States at Nuevo Laredo, Tamaulipas. The passenger and freight train project will...