September 8, 2015 - Texas Tribune by Aman Batheja The private firm hoping to build a high-speed rail line between Dallas and Houston has been celebrating a summer of successes: completing a successful round of fundraising, seeing a key federal study move forward, surviving the...

September 3, 2015 - Fort Worth Star Telegram BY GORDON DICKSON gdickson@star-telegram.com FORT WORTH  A proposed commuter rail line from downtown Fort Worth to Dallas/Fort Worth Airport will be among the first rails in Texas to feature state-of-the-art technology for preventing crashes, an official...

September 3, 2015 - Progressive Railroading The Denton County Transportation Authority (DCTA) received the platinum award for financial transparency as part of the Texas Comptroller Leadership Circle program. Launched by the state's Comptroller of Public Accounts in December 2009, the Leadership Circle award program...

September 2, 2015 - SAcurrent.com Bexar County's $1.7 billion budget that was approved Tuesday includes $500,000 for the Lone Star Rail District. While the funding received a green light, no agreements are in place yet, according to a county spokesperson. Lone Star Rail...

September 1, 2015 - San Antonio Business Journal Logistics company Twin Eagle continues to grow despite six-year low crude oil prices and the company is building a new rail park to deliver frac sand to its customers just a few hours northwest of...

August 26, 2015 - Alpine Avalanche Proponents of passenger service on the old South Orient through Alpine hope that a renewed interest in using the rail line for freight will lead to a future travel boom, especially for tourism in Mexico. It...

BROWNSVILLE, Texas, Aug. 26 (UPI) -- Government officials from the United States and Mexico held an event Tuesday to celebrate the opening of the West Rail Bypass International Bridge, the first rail link between the countries in more than a century. The...

The Regional Transportation Council (RTC) in North Texas last week approved $4.5 million through fiscal-year 2018 for the planning, design, project development and preliminary engineering of a high-speed rail line that would connect Dallas/Fort Worth to Houston. Texas Central Partners is...

Federal grant acceptance will allow work to begin on Southwest Chief route Garden City Telegram - August 24, 2015 The slow process of improving the Southwest Chief rail line through southwest Kansas took a step forward Monday after the Garden City commission...

North Texas inches closer to getting High-Speed Rail lines CBSlocal.com - August 21, 2015   FORT WORTH (CBSDFW.COM) – For years, politicians and volunteers have been talking about building a high-speed rail line to and possibly through North Texas. That ‘dream' has now inched...