September 1, 2017 - TRA Newswire - Around the edges rail traffic is starting to inch back after Hurricane/Tropical Storm Harvey devastated Houston and the Gulf Coast of Texas. Union Pacific Railroad reports that freight rail service in the Houston area is...

UPDATED August 30, 2017 - TRA Newswire - Massive flooding caused by Hurricane / Tropical Storm Harvey has wreaked havoc with all modes of transportation, especially railroads, along the Texas Gulf Coast and around Houston.  All three Class I railroads that serve...

August 4, 2017 - TRA Newswire - Amtrak President and CEO Wick Moorman has named Richard & Christina Anderson of Marshall Texas as Amtrak Champions during the annual President's Safety and Service Awards program. Every year the national network passenger rail...

July 19, 2017 - wtxl.com - A federal panel submitted a report to Congress this week recommending passenger rail service return to the Gulf Coast. The Big Bend has been without it for more than a decade. The Gulf Coast Working Group...

July 7, 2017 - Fort Worth Star-Telegram - Gordon Dickson - Amtrak’s incoming boss has Texas ties, but can he save long-distance passenger rail service in the state? Richard Anderson, 62, a veteran airline executive who most recently ran Delta Air Lines,...

July 4, 2017 - Commentary by Russ Jackson -  Commerce, Oklahoma (not California) is a small town in the northeast corner of Oklahoma near the Kansas border, population 2,400 hardy souls.  This town sits astride the original Route 66 highway, several...

June 26, 2017 - TRA Newswire - WASHINGTON – Amtrak announced that it has named Richard Anderson, a 25-year veteran of the aviation industry and Galveston native, as its next president and chief executive officer. Anderson, former chief executive officer of...

June 26, 2017 - TRA Newswire - Alpine Texas wants and needs its trains. Train service is important to Alpine. The town of 6,000 is located in far Southwest Texas on the way to Big Bend National Park. There are no...

June 17, 2017 - TRA Newswire / NARPrail.org -   On the weekend of June 23, National Association of Railroad Passengers members and rail advocates from across the country will host rallies in cities across the country to support long distance passenger rail...

June 17, 2017 - TRA Newswire / NARPrail.com - The House Appropriations Subcommittee on Transportation, Housing and Urban Development this week grilled U.S. Department of Transportation Secretary Elaine Chao over plans to slash infrastructure funding, eliminate Amtrak's long-distance trains, and stall transit...