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DART Silver Line revenue service start pushed back to 2024

July 14th, 2021
July 13, 20121 - TRA Newswire - Citing delays from COVID-19, agreements on land and rail access, Dallas Area Rapid Transit (DART) announced that the opening of the 26-mile east-west Silver Line will be pushed back to 2024. The line from DFW...

Support growing for 'Amtrak ConnectsUS' Texas rail service

July 5th, 2021
July 5, 2021 - TRA Newswire - Ever since Amtrak unveiled its vision to expand passenger rail service in key short-run corridors around the country earlier this year, interest has been growing in broadening train service to link Texas' major cities...

Shreveport Mayor appointed to Southern Rail Commission - wants rail service on I-20 corridor

July 4th, 2021
July 4, 2021 - TRA Newswire - A  new development in a long-range plan to put people on trains in the I-20 corridor. Louisiana Gov. John Bel Edwards last week appointed Shreveport Mayor Adrian Perkins as an at-large member of the three-state...

BNSF adds a 3rd Texas rail-served 'Certified Site'

July 1st, 2021
July 1, 2021 - TRA Newswire - If you're a business or industry looking for immediate development in a rail-served site in Texas, BNSF Railway has just added a third park to its state roster. As part of BNSF's Premier Parks, Sites...

KCS Corpus Christi customer to start truck-to-rail petro transload facility

June 29th, 2021
June 29, 2021 - TRA Newswire - Kansas City Southern (KCS) (NYSE: KSU) and Midstream Texas Operating LLC (MTO) today announced a long-term commercial agreement to provide truck-to-rail transloading services for petroleum and petrochemicals from Corpus Christi, Texas into Mexico. Operations...

Supporters optimistic Biden infrastructure deal will close passenger rail gap between Marshall and Meridian

June 29th, 2021
June 28, 2021 - KTAL/KMSS - Proponents of closing the passenger rail gap between Marshall, Texas and Meridian, Mississippi are optimistic that some of the billions in the Biden administration’s infrastructure push could finally make the long-sought connection between Fort Worth...

Tx Supreme Court upholds Texas Central RR eminent domain rights

June 18th, 2021
June 18, 2021 - TRA Newswire - The Texas Supreme Court today rejected the action presented by a landowner against Texas Central Railways' right to use eminent domain. This decision firmly establishes that Texas Central is both a railroad per Texas law...

Texas Central signs $16 billion construction contract with Webuild for high-speed rail

June 15th, 2021
June 15, 2021 - TRA Newswire - Carlos Aguilar, President and CEO of Texas Central Railway, confirmed to Texas Rail Advocates today that the railroad has signed a $16 billion construction contract with Webuild of Italy and their U.S. partner Lane...

Northeast Texas Short Line RR at Lone Star to have a new owner

June 14th, 2021
June 14, 2021 - TRA Newswire - Texas and Northern Railroad, owned by a unit of United State Steel Corp, will change ownership as the steel company sheds six freight rail lines under its corporate umbrella. Pittsburgh-based U.S Steel agreed to sell...

Full steam ahead: world's largest steam locomotive returns with 'The Big Boy 2021 Tour'

June 14th, 2021
June 14, 2021 - TRA Newswire - Fort Worth and Houston will get an up-close and personal look at Union Pacific's Big Boy No. 4014 in August, when the world's largest steam locomotive embarks on "The Big Boy 2021 Tour" Aug....

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