December 7, 2015 - (Dallas) Amtrak's Texas Eagle service has a lot to celebrate and you get the prize. Starting in January when you purchase one regular (adult) rail fare on the daily Texas Eagle you get to take a...
December 1, 2015
The movers and shakers in Texas that build our homes, business parks and industrial sites are sitting up and taking notice about freight and passenger rail and how important it is in their economic plans.
Three stories this week paint a...
November 19, 2015 - Eric Jaffe - CityLab.com
Federal officials rule the rail line won’t stop in DPlugins 0owntown Houston
America’s train-loving vice president has bestowed his official blessing on theprivately funded high-speed rail line between Houston and Dallas. On Wednesday, Joe Biden...
November 18, 2015 - Brandon Formby - Dallas Morning News Transportation Blog
Vice President Joe Biden stood atop a sun-drenched rooftop in the Cedars on Wednesday to sing the praises of a planned high-speed rail line between Dallas and Houston. The...
November 11, 2015 - Latinalista.com
McALLEN, RGV – A high-speed passenger rail line between San Antonio and Monterrey is going to happen, says state Rep. Richard Peña Raymond.
The Laredo Democrat made the prediction at a news conference held at Laredo City...
Public vs. Private.
Was it correct and legal for member Directors of a Texas agency that derives part of their funding from state appropriations, the U.S. Department of Agriculture and the EPA to vote in opposition of a high speed rail...
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...
Sure it's for roads, but there's a small asterisk. We need good roads to get us to future freight and passenger rail projects that the state legislature has been ignoring for years. One step at a time.
If voters give Texas...
Mitchell Schnurman - Dallas Morning News - October 20 2015
$130M worth of high-speed rail design work will be done at selected firms' risk
Who’s gonna stop progress in its tracks, especially when it’s counted in the billions of dollars?
Texas is supposed...
(TRA Note: Dallas Morning News readers respond to possible train service cuts if Congress does not approve an extension of mandated Positive Train Control (PTC) legislation that most all railroads will not be able to have in place by December...