June 14, 1999 was the first run of the Oklahoma state supported Heartland Flyer, a daily train that made a round-trip between Oklahoma City and Fort Worth, Texas. It ended a twenty year drought of passenger rail service in that...
Ladailypost.com - October 27, 2015
WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Senators Tom Udall and Martin Heinrich and U.S. Representatives Michelle Lujan Grisham, Steve Pearce and Ben Ray Luján have announced that the U.S. Department of Transportation (DOT) has awarded $15,210,143 for the...
(Special to TRA) - October 13, 2015 - The Texas Department of Transportation (TxDOT) is proposing rail improvements for a major choke point at the Neches River Bridge in Beaumont, Texas. TxDOT will hold a Public Open House on Wednesday,...
William S. Lind and Glen D. Bottoms • AmericanConservative.com
September 8, 2015
At root, conservatism is about preserving good things from the past and, where they have been lost, restoring them. Conservatives know that life in the past was in many ways...
By Ben Wear - American-Statesman Staff - September 20, 2015
Amtrak’s Texas Eagle was 80 minutes late pulling into the Austin station Friday morning. Of course.
According to Amtrak, its trains have come in to Austin on time just 30.9 percent of...
Railroad shutdown imminent as safety deadline approaches, industry warns
KETV-Omaha / TRA / September 10, 2015
OMAHA, Neb. —A looming deadline for implementation of new railroad safety standards could cause rail networks across the United States to come to a standstill, including...
WASHINGTON – Special to TRA - September 17, 2015
U.S. Senator Roger Wicker, R-Miss., a member of the Senate Commerce, Science, and Transportation Committee, today questioned Acting Administrator of the Federal Railroad Administration (FRA), Sarah Feinberg, about the agency’s efforts to...
Plans to move Amtrak to faster tracks have stalled
Passengers endure long waits stuck in freight yards
Officials confident resolution is only weeks away
September 11, 2015 - Fort Worth Star-Telegram / Gordon Dickson
The latest example is playing out in Fort Worth, where...
